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Re: [Dhis2-users] DHIS 2 - week

 

Hi Carlos,

this was a problem with translations of the period keys. Its been fixed in
2.14 and development version.

regards,

Lars


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Carlos Nyembwe <nyembwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all, I have an observation.
> I'd like to know why when I generates the report on the validation data on
> the period column, she has dual display? if medium, can you review that?
>
>
> 2014-03-25 9:16 GMT-07:00 Shantala Raman <sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Yes, it would be great if the week numbers in a year and start & end days
>> can be made configurable. I will wait to hear from this group on whether
>> this is possible.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shantala
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Shantala,
>>>
>>> As Knut's email alludes to , along the article which you shared hints
>>> at, there may be different definitions of what an "Epi Week" actually is.
>>>
>>> It is therefore that DHIS2 has adopted the ISO standard definition,
>>> which can be determined with precision, due to the rigor of its definition.
>>>
>>>
>>> In your case, is you requirement that your week begins on Sunday instead
>>> of Monday, with the first week being determined by the "The first epi week
>>> of the year ends, by definition, on the first Saturday of January, as long
>>> as it falls at least four days into the month"?
>>>
>>> A question to the developers...would it be possible to support a "user
>>> defined period type", which would require that users create their own
>>> start/enddates? I realize that this would create problems for the offline
>>> features of DHIS2, but this requirement, along with similar ones in
>>> countries which do not use the Gregorian calendar, point to the need for
>>> something more flexible than what we currently have.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Shantala Raman <sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure. The requirement is to have data collection done weekly with the
>>>> week being an Epi week <http://www.cmmcp.org/epiweek.htm>(epidemiology week), having week start date of Sunday and end date of
>>>> Saturday.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Could you elaborate a bit on your specific requirements?
>>>>>
>>>>> Knut
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Shantala Raman <
>>>>> sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you. This helps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have actually accommodated other weeks (eg Wed to Tue) in
>>>>>>> Cambodia, but this code is not yet part of the core.
>>>>>>>  On Mar 24, 2014 12:53 PM, "Jason Pickering" <
>>>>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Shantala,
>>>>>>>> The weeks are calculated according to the ISO 8601 time and date
>>>>>>>> standard.
>>>>>>>> This generally means weeks start on Monday and end on Sunday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  More info can be found here
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Shantala Raman <
>>>>>>>> sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For data that is reported/collected on a weekly basis, we have a
>>>>>>>>> requirement to use Epidemiology weeks. I wanted to know how the weeks are
>>>>>>>>> calculated in DHIS2. Please point me to any documentation around the logic
>>>>>>>>> for calculating the weeks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Shantala
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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