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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 September 2011 17:29, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 September 2011 17:01, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Not sure, but it may have something to do with 1.4
>> >
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/dhis2/+bug/517047
>> >
>> > which includes an exchange between ourselves.
>> >
>> > It does not seem to make a lot of sense, other than to facilitate
>> > imports from 1.4 where a (unique) code is not required.
>>
>> Alright.  That was it.  Wonder what they use code for?

Well, the only options are
(i) to drop that code on input
(ii) postfix duplicate codes with _<Some random string>

I guess either is possible.  I'm working around this for the moment,
but would be good to meander back to unique codes soon.

>
> Whatever it is used for, I don't think that is a sufficiently good reason
> for us to not make it unique.
> Knut
>
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jason
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Can someone point me back to the rationale for allowing non-unique
>> >> codes for dataelements etc in the database model.  I'm struggling to
>> >> understand this requirement.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Bob
>> >>
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> Knut Staring
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