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[Carl Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Just to clarify this code would be used as a way for a human to refer to the facility.  On the back end, we would still very much make use of the UUID as an unchanging ID.

Cheers,
-carl

> On Nov 24, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Carl Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> We are looking at using DHIS2 to manage facilities for a Facility Registry in Sierra Leone.  One of the requirements is that they have a facility code that combines:
> an sub-code to indicate the region the facility is in
> an incremental counter of the region
> These codes don’t need to be immediately available. On a routine basis (e.g. nightly) the facility list will be sent to the InterLinked Registry / OpenInfoMan for wider sharing for example with mHero.
> 
> I don’t think that there is anything to automatically generate codes codes for facilities in DHIS2 using rules like the above.   I am looking for some suggestions.  A couple of (half-baked) ideas include:
> create a DHIS2 Web App to create new facilities with the logic implemented above
> create a script that runs on a cron job that will look for any facilities without a code and modify their records to add the code based on the rules above
> I think the second possibilities would be the simplest to implement.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -carl
>