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[Harsh Atal <harsh.atal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Abyot.

On 21 July 2015 at 15:39, Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> No that is not possible at the moment. Unfortunately, you have to create
> as many dataelements as the symptoms you wanted to collect. This is also
> related to analysis. If you wanted to count and do some kind of
> analysis/reporting on such dataelement, processing the multiple selections
> is not possible.
>
> If you are not interested in analysis, then creating an app is also a
> possibility. What you could do is - make the dataelement to be text type
> and in your app you can can append the multiple selections.
>
>
> ---
> Thank you,
> Abyot.
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Harsh Atal <harsh.atal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am sick and in DHIS2 I have to enter the symptoms that I am
>> experiencing.
>> Symptoms are many...
>> -Fever,
>> -Coughing,
>> -Headache,
>> -etc etc(pls assume that it's a long long list..)
>>
>> Now, against "Symptoms" I want to be able to multi select between these
>> options according to what symptoms I am experiencing, Is there some way by
>> which this kind of thing can be implemented in DHIS2?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> harsh
>>
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