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[Markus Bekken <markus.bekken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys!
Chiming in - I think Abyot is on leave today.
This seems to be a discrepancy that we should just resolve one way or the other. You might say that a blank value is not unique, but I have also recently encountered a use case where we needed a non-compulsory unique attribute like you Jose. 

Hiding the field with program rules was a workaround in our case, but I think it makes sense to allow blank values in non-compulsory unique attributes.

Unless there is any disagreements we can implement the client to conform to the API.

Markus

> 8. jun. 2016 kl. 09.15 skrev Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sorry for late reply, but I have been looking into this, and from the backend this is not required. I'm adding in Abyot, hopefully he can answer why it is required in the UI part (I see it's marked with red star, and it will not allow it without a value)
> 
> -- 
> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org <http://www.dhis2.org/>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Jose Garcia Muñoz <josemp10@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:josemp10@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> Dear devs,
> 
> we realized that tracked attributes are always compulsory even if they are not marked like that in the program definition? so it is not possible at all to keep them blank using the Tracker Capture.
> 
> In PSI (and I guess is the same for many different countries), we need to define unique patient's IDs, although several times it is not possible to collect them for many reasons, but now the system is not giving us the option of keeping the IDs blank
> 
> Is this something that can be changed? Unique attributes can be compulsory just marking the attribute as compulsory in the program definition...
> 
> Please, let us know, as we may need to reconsider some re-configuration for our programs.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Jose
> 
> 
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