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Re: Error: switching calendars seems buggy

 

I thought so - and confirmed it the hard way. I guess it is not feasible to
lock it? Because I dont know how to fix this database now...tried to delete
the period, but then it complains about it not existing anymore...

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Actually, there is only one point where you can switch the calendar, and
> that is at the very start of a fresh database. We should probably make this
> more obvious (maybe a big warning or something).
>
> --
> Morten
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> During the training I am currently running using 2.20, all users have
>> been given admin access to the (initially empty) database.
>>
>> Someone then went ahead and changed to Ethiopian calendar. This seems to
>> have tripped up both generation of resource tables and analytics. We ended
>> up with two different definitions of the 8th month of 2015, one with 30
>> days  (Ethiopian) and one with 31 days.
>>
>> This then caused an error complaining about duplicate periods when trying
>> to run Analytics.
>>
>> --
>> Knut Staring
>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>> Norway: +4791880522
>> Skype: knutstar
>> http://dhis2.org
>>
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-- 
Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
Norway: +4791880522
Skype: knutstar
http://dhis2.org

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