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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have made domaintype property not-null now in trunk and 2.11.

Working with Jason to resolve this.

Lars



On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Devs,
> Have been discussing this offline with Lars, but figured I better put it
> on the list so that we can all benefit.
>
> We have been bootstrapping a system with some legacy data and metadata.
> Basic procedure has been to transform data in flat files (Excel) into DXF
> and then import this into DHIS2.
>
> First problem we came across here was that we did not specify the domain
> type of the data element. Since this property is NULLABLE in the database,
> DHIS2 seemed to happily excepted this misformed metadata. I think we should
> make the domain type NOT NULL, to ensure this does not happen when external
> metadata is imported into the system. I am not really sure what a data
> element with no domain type actually is, but at the very least, the API
> should return a warning. The consequence was this that these data elements
> were not available when creating report tables.
>
> After we managed to import the data elements via DXF2, we imported some
> legacy data. Strangely, resources which depend on the analytics tables work
> fine (i.e. the new PivotTables). What does not work is anything related to
> the datamart (i.e. ReportTables, GIS, Visualizer). I can see the data in
> the data entry forms and the data  browser, but nothing in these modules,
> which seems bizarre.
>
> Any ideas what is going on?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
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