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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carl

Sorry to have been unresponsive on this but have been trapped in a meeting
the past 2 days.  I will be back at home tomorrow evening and try to give
some better instruction.

On 4 December 2012 09:56, Frederick Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am in Zimbabwe and we are working on setting up a linkage from their
> HRIS, zHRIS, to DHIS2 via SDMX-HD as a cross-sectional data set.  I am
> following the same pattern as we have done for Kenya, Zanzibar, and Sierra
> Leone.  However, I have always worked on the HRIS side of things and this
> time around I need some direction/helpful hints on the DHIS side.
>
> As a first step, we are trying to import in DHIS2 the data (# health
> workers, facility, post)
>
> So far, we have generated the necessary DSD.xml and KF_POST_FACILITY.xsd
> files and I believe the actual import process will should follow this
> outline:
>  http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch24s04.html
> How can one associate the DSD and KF_POST_FACILITY.xsd to this process so
> it can be validated.
>

We have never implemented the importing of SDMX DSD.  What we did do before
was was generate the DSD from our side.  Regarding association of dsd with
schema (in fact schema should be generated from the dsd) let me explain
more tomorrow.  Its late here now :-)

What you would probably want to do if you are going this way around and you
already have the codelists, is use those to create dataelements in dxf and
import them.  Again I can help with the detail but not right now.


> Next, I want to know how to properly get the posts properly loaded into
> DHIS.  These are not (at least for now) going to be further disaggregated
> by things like gender.  Looking at some previous examples I think that I
> should be generating a dxf file for this.  Something along the lines of the
> snippet below.  Is this headed in the right direction?
>

yes

>
> Assuming so, I want the categoryCombo to be "default", but it seems that
> the id is different on each system.  I assume that I would I need to look
> it up on the target DHIS system first, or is there some other way?
>

if categorycombo is meant to be default you can just leave it out.
 Importer is smart enough to figure you mean default by default :-)


>
> The id's for the post dataElements are coming from the zHRIS, e.g. 123456
> As I can't guarantee that there won't be collision with ids for existing
> dataElement ids, can I put a prefix on the id, e.g. HRIS123456?  Is there
> some other way I can avoid collision?
>

Sure.  The ids don't have to be numeric.  Great relief to have moved beyond
that.  So any sensible code of your choosing will do and dhis will accept
it (as long as it doesn't collide).


> I have omitted the <uid/>s in the snippet below.  Is this OK?
>

Yes.

Bob


>
> Cheers,
> -carl
> P.S. sorry if this message is a repeat
>
>
> <dxf>
>  <dataElements>
>    <dataElement>
>      <name>Nurse</name>
>      <shortName>Nurse</shortName>
>       <code>HRIS_123456</code>  <!-- this code is coming from zHRIS -->
>       <description></description>
>       <active>true</active>
>       <type>int</type>
>       <domainType>aggregate</domainType>
>       <aggregationOperator>average</aggregationOperator>
>       <categoryCombo>5</categoryCombo>  <!-- I want this to be the default
> categoryCombo.  Suppose that it is 5 on the target DHIS system -->
>       <lastUpdated>2010-02-05</lastUpdated>
>    </dataElement>
>     <!--  etc -->
> </dataElements>
>  <!-- assume that I have already created a dataElementGroup "Post" with id
> 987654 -->
> <dataElementGroupMembers>
>    <dataElementGroupMember>
>       <dataElementGroup>987654</dataElementGroup>
>       <dataElement>123456</dataElement>
>    </dataElementGroupMember>
>    <!--  etc -->
>  </dataElementGroupMembers>
> </dxf>
>
>
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