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[Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When to increase a version is really tricky - there are lots of scenarios /
changes that trigger or do not trigger version increment.

For now, we will fix for a program version not to increment when there is
no change at all.

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Abyot A. Gizaw.
Senior Engineer, DHIS2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Archana Chillala <
archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could you please provide any update on this? Program version gets
> incremented by when update button is clicked, even if there are no actual
> changes made to the program. Currently using DHIS version 2.23.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Archana Chillala
> Application Developer
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know how this is implemented. Yes, it doesn't make sense to bump
>> the version while there is no change in the program.
>>
>> Otherwise, we need the program version. Even't capture updates its cache
>> of programs based on version.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Thank you,
>> Abyot.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> When it comes to the web-api, we do not update the program version for
>>> every update. I'm not sure exactly why its being done like that in the
>>> program module.. but I see this comment:
>>> program.increaseVersion(); //TODO make more fine-grained
>>>
>>> So probably they wanted to do something more with it.. Maybe Abyot can
>>> shed some light on it? is this version flag in use today? I can see it
>>> being used for doing offline metadata, but then again.. its not very useful
>>> if the version gets updated regardless of any actual changes..
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Archana Chillala <
>>> archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Morten,
>>>>
>>>> I am using DHIS version 2.23. In the Program/attributes module, when we
>>>> create a program, one of the properties of the program - *Version -*
>>>> is automatically assigned a value 1. When we update the program, the
>>>> Version value gets incremented by 1 each time. But, even if we do not make
>>>> any changes to the program and just click update button, the program
>>>> version still gets incremented by 1.
>>>>
>>>> Is this the expected functionality? Could you please explain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Thanks*
>>>>
>>>> Archana Chillala
>>>> Application Developer
>>>> Email archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Telephone +91 9100960533 <+91+9100960533>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Morten
>>>
>>
>>
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