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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Markus

Thanks for this information.  That's a really useful snippet for
anyone to get started who might want to do this.  I have a quick
question and a comment/suggestion:

1.  I can see from the link that you can indeed parse/serialize json
from VBA - I guess it would have been surprising if you couldn't :-)
Would you do this in preference to CSV?

2.  On a a more general point, there has been interest in (and a long
historical relationship) between DHIS and Excel.  Ranging from its
early origins in DHIS1.4 through to primitive efforts to populate
spreadsheet data using mydatamart.  But the use cases from excel as
data collection instrument, through to excel for analysis (pivot
tables) and simple metadata management are very varied.  It strikes me
that a library of DHIS2-web-api macros similar to those you presented
in your link would be hugely interesting to a lot of people.  Have you
considered collecting/publishing such a thing?

Cheers
Bob

On 23 June 2015 at 12:06, Markus Bekken <markus.bekken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Channara and Bob
>
> I have been using macros to POST and PUT data to the API, and GET requests
> should work just as well.
>
> I added your question and put my macro code here:
> https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/79521/can-i-use-excel-to-get-json-from-the-dhis-api/79522#79522
>
> See the comment at the end, seems it is possible to parse the JSON in a
> macro also.
>
> Thank you,
> Markus
>
> 23. jun. 2015 kl. 12.13 skrev Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> You can't use excel to get json data from dhis2 web api.  At least not
> directly.
>
> You could possibly write an excel macro to "get" the data through the
> web api (I am really not sure - it is far too many years since i wrote
> an excel macro), but you are still left with the problem of consuming
> what you have got (json) into cells in a spreadsheet.
>
> I believe all (or certainly almost all) of the data which is available
> as json is also available as csv.  If you are looking at getting dhsi2
> data into excel in general, I would look at csv rather than json if
> you want to minimize the processing/transformation that would
> otherwise have to happen in between getting the data and consuming it.
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual.html
>
> On 23 June 2015 at 07:47, channara rin <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all DHIS2 developer,
> Do you know can i use Microsoft Excel to get json data from DHIS2 web API?
>
> thank you
> channara
>
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