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Re: Error: switching calendars seems buggy

 

We can start with a warning label in the settings UI.

LArs

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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> Norway: +4791880522
> Skype: knutstar
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
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