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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Crizelle,

right, that was an unnecessary constraint. It has been removed now in trunk
and 2.21.

Note that the option set value type refers to the _code_ of the option, not
the name. For analytics of the values entered through option sets, the code
is used for aggregation.

regards,

Lars


On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> DHIS2 prohibits you from adding single-digit numbers as Options for Option
> Sets, irrespective of whether the Option Set has a Value Type of "Positive
> Integer", "Positive or Zero Integer", "Number" or Text. Hence the numbers
> 1-9 cannot be used as Options.
>
> Is there a reason for this?
>
> As a work-around I tried using 01-09, but get the error message "Value
> must be a [positive] integer", except for the Option Sets with value type
> "Text" for which it was successfully added. This is not optimal though as
> calculations cannot be done with text fields.
>
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> Regards,
> Crizelle Nel
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Lars Helge Øverland
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University of Oslo
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