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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut and Sharada

This is still the case in 2.13 and good to see someone else is seeing a
need for this!

Although what Sharada is requesting for is a bit different I think than the
blueprint you mentioned, but nonetheless related. I think the case here is
that a dynamic  data type, which is user definable in a sense,  needs to be
created. Right now, these are hardcoded as integer, negative integer,
positive integer, etc. And all of these different types basically use a
regular expression to validate their type, since in the database,
everything is stored as text. Seems to be a useful feature, but having a
server side mechanism to do the validation is the first step in my mind.

Regards,
Jason



On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/regex-validation
>
> ** Changed in: dhis2
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247890
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> Title:
>   New field type required to ensure the format of the data
>
> Status in DHIS 2:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   There doesn’t seem to be a way to check the structure of each field
>   beyond field type (number, text, date). For example, ensuring ANC
>   number is formatted as ###/##/## or is a particular length. Validation
>   rule does not allow users to create an expression which checks if the
>   input is well-formed or has a particular format-type.
>
>   DHIS Live Version: 2.11
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