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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Uwe,
Thanks for the feedback. We will take a look at it.

>From the docs

"DHIS 2 supports import of metadata in the CSV format. Columns which are
not required can be omitted in the CSV file, but the order will be
affected. If you would like to specify columns which appear late in the
order but not specify columns which appear early in the order you can
include empty columns ("") for them. "

The language here is not as clear as it could be. I will edit it a bit to
reflect the fact that as Calle says, the header is optional and ignored.
The order of the columns however is what is important. The required columns
are mandatory, other columns are optional as indicated in the docs,
however, if you are using columns which appear later in the order, you must
include empty columns, so that the order of the columns is correct.
FeatureType should not be required, but it should be required if you choose
to include coordinates. We will check on this.

It might be helpful if you could share a snippet of your CSV file with us,
which might make diagnosing things a bit easier.

Regards,
Jason


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1.
> The header row is optional - it will automatically be discarded if it's
> there. CSV import follows a pre-defined list of columns - you can drop
> anything at the end, but must include extra commas if you have blank
> columns in between relevant columns.
>
> 2. All UIDs must be 11 characters, and starting with a letter (NOT a
> digit).
>
> Regards
> Calle
>
> On 17 December 2015 at 08:06, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I think header is completely optional (so docs should reflect that).
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Uwe Wahser <uwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> update inline
>>> > Uwe Wahser <uwe@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 17. Dezember 2015 um 06:23
>>> geschrieben:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > according to a previous post on the users list there have obviously
>>> been
>>> > changes
>>> > in the CSV-format for importing OrgUnits. Some have been documented,
>>> others
>>> > not
>>> > (or might be bugs):
>>> >
>>> > - feature format seems to be mandatory now. I don't know whether that
>>> makes
>>> > sense, if it does, please indicate that in the docs, too.
>>> > - If you decide to change the docs on that, please also add a column
>>> with the
>>> > technical names to be included in the header line of the csv - the
>>> names in
>>> > the
>>> > example differ from the names in the format specification. (or
>>> indicate,
>>> > whether
>>> > the header line is optional)
>>> > - the import summary records a funny error message. Don't know whether
>>> it's
>>> > new,
>>> > but it seems to be wrong: Validation Violations:
>>> > [ValidationViolation{property='id', message='Allowed range for length
>>> [11,
>>> > 11],
>>> > length is 7', value=NAIROBI}]
>>> UPDATE: only uid's >= 11char were imported - must be a bug
>>> >
>>> > I could have posted this as bug-report, but I wasn't sure, whether
>>> those are
>>> > bugs or features ...
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Uwe
>>> >
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