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[Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I think I missed that it was not required from the server side api ... it
is easy to fix from the client side.

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

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Jose Garcia Muñoz <josemp10@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> Hi guys,
>
> any agreements on this? :)
>
>  I would like to know if I need to change the configuration of some
> programs (unique attributes are always compulsory)  or not (unique
> attributes can be optional). I would prefer if we can keep them blank as
> well (so they are optional).
>
> Thanks
> Jose
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I just want to support the idea that blanks should be accepted and not
>> checked for uniqueness. I'm glad to hear that the API already supports
>> this, so it will be great if the UI follows that logic.
>>
>> *Rodolfo *
>>
>>
>> On 8 June 2016 at 10:49, Juan Manuel Alcantara Acosta <
>> jmalcantara1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Markus
>>> I had a short email exchange with Abyot last week and he said the same
>>> "So many blanks can not be unique” but for a value to be unique there must
>>> be a value. If the database and the API do not have this requirement, the
>>> interface should follow the program’s configuration.
>>> Best regards,
>>> JM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> El 08/06/2016, a las 8:35 a.m., Markus Bekken <markus.bekken@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Jose Garcia Muñoz <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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