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[Sharada Acharya <sa3119@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,

I went through the your bug description, that is exactly what I want!
Providing the ability to create regular-expressions or creation of a
dynamic
data-type seems to be the best way to verify the format of incoming data.
I was wondering if this request has been considered for DHIS future release.
Any idea about which version would it be considered for?

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Sharada Acharya
Health Informatics Intern at ICAP
Columbia Univeristy
New York, NY


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:40 PM, jason.p.pickering <
1247890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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> >
> > 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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> 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
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247890

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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