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[Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lars.

Noted.

Regards,
Crizelle Nel
HISP-SA

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>> Crizelle Nel
>>
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