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[Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi - As I understand it, once you add an attribute to a program, it gets
'locked' in that program, making it unavailable to any other program.  I
also think that this is too restrictive - at a minimun, you should be able
to add the same attribute to another program, when applicable - similar to
what you can do with data elements - you add the data element to as many
DataSets/Program Stages as require. If the attribute already has a value
(because it was captured on another program), it will be ok if the system
displays the current value - at the end, the idea is that you have a piece
of metadata associated to the individual record, and you use that data for
profiling your client.

My particular case is as follows: I need to collect 'number of children
alive' and 'education level' for a client in 2 programs, out of the
multiple programs that I have. A client may enroll on both programs, or
only one of them, in no particular order. At the moment I cannot related
the attribute to both programs, because the current limitation. I have to
ask the information for ALL individuals, although irrelevant to many of the
other programs.

So yes, allowing an attribute to be collected by more than one program
sounds like a great solution (with the attribute value being common .
Certainly I let the DHIS team to decide, as there may be implication that I
don't yet understand - I'm quite new to DHIS.

R



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Abhijeet . <abhijeet.7777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi ingvild, currently it is as you said, specific attributes id for
> specific programme
> i am not sure of intentionally, may be the idea behind this could be,
> attributes when you just create it. it displays in Registration screen
> which is generic for all programmes, but when you add some attributes in
> programme then it becomes specific to that programme only, than that
> attributes can not be displayed in Registration screen(logically) and not
> being used in another programme,as if now.
> i think it could be made to use for other programme as well, making it
> generic would not be a problem but then we have to link it with respective
> programmes
> for Reports management etc
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Ingvild Indrebø <ingvildindr@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> If you add some extra personal attributes and use them in one programme,
>> the following programmes can not use the same attributes. One attribute
>> can only be used once. Is this intentionally? Trunk 2.11 chrome
>>
>> ** Affects: dhis2
>>      Importance: Undecided
>>          Status: New
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of DHIS 2
>> developers, which is subscribed to DHIS.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155468
>>
>> Title:
>>   Personal attributes can only be used in one programme
>>
>> Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software:
>>   New
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   If you add some extra personal attributes and use them in one
>>   programme, the following programmes can not use the same attributes.
>>   One attribute can only be used once. Is this intentionally? Trunk 2.11
>>   chrome
>>
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>
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