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[Jasper Timm <jasper.timm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still hoping for a response on this regarding the more specific questions
regarding identifying OrgUnit by phone and how to specify OrgUnit/Period.

Zubair - are you aware of how that works? Or any other DHIS2 dev?

Thanks,

- Jasper

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Jasper Timm <jasper.timm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi Zubair,
>
> Thanks for the quick response but I don't think it answered the questions
> I asked regarding how to specify the OrgUnit and Period at all.
>
> Also, in the case where no OrgUnit is specified in the SMS, I'm assuming
> given there is a 'User belongs to more than one OrgUnit' message that DHIS2
> attempts to guess the user by the phone number the SMS was received from
> and uses the OrgUnit the user is assigned to?
>
> And for the multiple messages then - I assume you need to split the
> submission up into multiple SMSs with the same 'header' (command name,
> orgunit, period?) and separate lists of the key,value pairs for the data
> elements?
>
> As in:
>
> MSG1 = "report <orgUnitCode> <period> de1,1 de2,0 de3,4"
> MSG2 = "report <orgUnitCode> <period> de4,2 de5,2" e.t.c.
>
> Which makes it a bit tricky when it comes to considering the submission
> 'complete' I suppose. I guess then you'd have to allow partial submissions
> to complete the form.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jasper
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Zubair Asghar Raja <zubair@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jasper,
>>
>> please find the answers in line.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24. aug. 2016 13:58, Jasper Timm wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> We're considering using the SMS Commands functionality of DHIS2 to
>> receive data from the data capture Android App when there is no internet
>> connectivity.
>>
>> I'm working from the documentation here:
>> <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/mobile_sms_command.html>
>> http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/
>> mobile_sms_command.html
>>
>> Unfortunately it still leaves a few questions:
>>
>> - How do you specify the OrgUnit and Period? Does the discussion from
>> this thread still apply? (
>> <https://lists.launchpad.net/dhis2-users/msg06122.html>
>> https://lists.launchpad.net/dhis2-users/msg06122.html) If so - how does
>> the parser differentiate when you specify BOTH OrgUnit and Period? Where
>> does one assign codes to the OrgUnits?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *       SMSCommand is associated with a Parser and parser is attached to
>> certain Programs (with/without registration).        1. Create SMSCommand
>>        2. Edit SMSCommand        3. Set response messages to be sent to the
>> originating user.        4. Set codes for data elements ( for example age,
>> height, orgunit etc ) *
>>
>>
>> - What happens when a message is longer than one SMS message?
>>
>>     *  When text is longer then one SMS(160 characters) then it will be
>> sent as multiple SMSes each having <= 160 characters. *
>>
>>
>> It'd be great to see these answers in the documentation itself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Jasper
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> --
>> Zubair Asghar
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>> University of Oslowww.dhis2.org
>>
>>
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