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[Prosper BT <ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jason,

I have seen it been dropped from 2.21, we will use these in the meantime

Regards

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Prosper,
>
> Yes, this functionality was dropped due to multiple complications with the
> code. In older versions it is still there, but I would strongly encourage
> you not ot use it. It was either non-functional in certain cases (but
> appear to work through the UI) , or would possibly corrupt data in others
> due to outdated logic in the code.
>
> In the meantime, I have added two  SQL for PostgreSQL functions here
> <https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-utils/tree/master/resources/sql>.
>
> 1) SELECT * FROM delete_site_with_data(UID)  where UID is the uid of the
> "site" is required. This will drop all references to an organisation unit
> with no children. It will not work if the site has children. This is needed
> by the second script. You do not need to execute this, but rather it needs
> to be present in the database.
>
> 2) SELECT * FROM merge_orgunits(source_uid,destination_uid);
>
> will merge two organisation units. There are a number of caveats
>
> a) Overlapping data which is not of type "INT", will be dropped from the
> source organisation unit, in favor of the destination organisation unit.
>
> b) Events/tracker data is currently not supported. More code would need to
> be added to handle this.
>
> You can probably modify these to suit your needs. We are still
> contemplating putting the functionality back in, but it will be quite a bit
> of work to get it right, and due to the possible differences in how
> overlapping data should be handled between different instances of DHIS2, it
> may require even more work to get it right. In the end, this is a quite
> tricky operation, and may depend on specific logic of how to handle
> overlapping data. If you have no overlapping data, then it should be pretty
> simple to switch the organisation unit ID references, and then delete the
> source organisation unit as usual.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Prosper BT <ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear Developers,
>>
>> For a long time with the different versions and builds the organisational
>> unit merge has not been working, I have submitted bugs but not solutions.
>>
>> Was this dropped or?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Prosper Behumbiize, MPH
>> Global HISP| University Of Oslo/HISP Uganda
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>> ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx | prosper@xxxxxxxxx | Skype: prospertb
>>
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Prosper Behumbiize, MPH
Global HISP| University Of Oslo/HISP Uganda
+256 752 751 776 | +256 776 139 139
ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx | prosper@xxxxxxxxx | Skype: prospertb