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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right, but if you are looking at a mother's dashboard and you want to link
the mother to a child, you are not getting any warnings that this child
already has a mother, I think?

The relationship functionality is really important, so certainly merits
more thinking, as you say.

Knut

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We list all types of relationships that the TEI (the owner of the
> dashboard) is linked to. The list also displays each relationship type.
>
> The idea of implementing a warning is kind of redundant to me. The user
> has kind of ignored what is already displayed and went to add another
> relationship...
>
> I like the idea of limiting the number of relationships one can have for a
> given relationship type. However, the issue is that our model is not ready
> for this - we need to rethink the entire relationship model.
>
> --
> Abyot A. Gizaw.
> Senior Engineer, DHIS2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I certainly understand the value of having this as an option, and I think
>> in general it would be nice to be able to (but not forced) to configure the
>> system to display a warning about preexisting relationships for that
>> particular TEI when the user creates a new relationship.
>>
>> One question that must be addressed is whether there should be a warning
>> that lists all types of relationships, or just relationships of the same
>> type as the user is trying to create.
>>
>> Knut
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:30 PM, David Muturi <dnmuturi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Knut,
>>> Thank you for you response. Looking at this outside the system,
>>> logically a child cannot belong to more than one mother when both mothers
>>> are alive. The system allows this to happen, another way of looking at it
>>> is when people share names one would want to pick the correct child for
>>> each mother, as it is now, one child may end up being assigned multiple
>>> mothers in mnch program for instance.
>>> I would not recommend restricting but rather a warning to the user that
>>> the child already has an existing relationship. I will put in a blue print
>>> for this as advised.
>>> rgds
>>> David
>>>
>>> 2016-06-24 15:21 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, often you would want to have multiple relationships, e.g. a
>>>> mother often has more than one child. So I think what you are asking for is
>>>> a new functionality to be able to restrict some relationships to be of type
>>>> one-to-many, instead of many-to-many. You should probably write this up as
>>>> a blueprint to be considered for 2.25.
>>>>
>>>> Knut
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 8:47 AM, David Muturi <dnmuturi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Devs,
>>>>> Are there any plans to address the issue below like issuing a warning
>>>>> message when someone tries to link a record in a relation ship thats
>>>>> already linked to another?
>>>>> rgds
>>>>> David
>>>>> On 23 Jun 2016 20:50, "David Muturi" <dnmuturi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Devs,
>>>>>> I have noticed that it is possible to link a child enrolled in a
>>>>>> child program to more than one mother. I have even tested on the online
>>>>>> dhis2 demo using the mnch and child programmes. Is it possible to prevent
>>>>>> this or atleast show a message that the child is already linked to a mother
>>>>>> so that the user knows that they are double linking the child ?
>>>>>> rgds
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Knut Staring
>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>> Norway: +4791880522
>>>> Skype: knutstar
>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Knut Staring
>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>> Norway: +4791880522
>> Skype: knutstar
>> http://dhis2.org
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
Norway: +4791880522
Skype: knutstar
http://dhis2.org