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Message #32333
Re: Creating Data Elements using the API
Thanks Morten , the schemas endpoint is what we were looking for .
We can view the options for enum from the dhis2 web interface for now .
Thanks
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi James
>
> We have a schema-generator at /api/schemas/type
> (/api/schemas/dataElement), sadly this is not done yet, as possible options
> for enums etc are not listed.
>
> The only real solution to this today, is to create a few data-elements
> that has the options you want to import, then go to /api/dataElement/ID and
> export it.. and look at the payload.
>
> --
> Morten
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:38 PM, James Muranga <jmured@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Hope everyone is okay.
>> We are working on creating a simple tool to automate how we setup data
>> elements on a dhis2 instance.
>> We are using a rest client to post json to the endpoint /api/dataElements
>> to create an element.
>> We are using the demo instance to test and it gives us an interesting
>> error about a failed not null constraint on the column valuetype. This
>> also happens when we provided values e.g valuetype:string or
>> valueType:string , has anyone else experienced the same ? Or could you
>> guide us on how we can get around this problem.
>>
>> Is there way to see which fields are required ?
>> We have attached the output from the api call.
>>
>> --
>> Muranga James
>>
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