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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam

We will have a better fix for 226, but for now you should be able to just
have name="default" on the elements (this will be nulled out during
validation phase, and then properly re-attach during import)

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Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Sam Johnson <samuel.johnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I’m trying to produce a generic EventCapture XML config that can be
> imported into any DHIS2 instance, which requires the data elements and
> program to use the default CategoryCombo of the target instance.
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> My understanding from the documentation (and the email thread below) is
> that if the CategoryCombo for a data element is null, then during metadata
> import the data element will automatically be assigned the local ‘default’
> CategoryCombo; the problem is that I can’t figure out how to represent this
> ‘null’ CategoryCombo in the XML. I’ve tried:
>
> ·         simply removing all <CategoryCombo /> tags from the data
> elements in the XML;
>
> ·         using <CategoryCombo id=null/>;
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> ·         using <CategoryCombo id=""/>
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> ·         using <CategoryCombo code="default"/>.
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> In 2.25, all of these throw the error “DataElementCategoryCombo Missing
> required property `categoryCombo`”…  How can I get these data elements to
> take on the local ‘default’ CategoryCombo as the XML is loaded?
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> Many thanks for any help anyone is able to give!
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>
>
> Regards, Sam.
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> *From: *Dhis2-devs <dhis2-devs-bounces+samuel.johnson=qebo.co.uk@lists.
> launchpad.net> on behalf of Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Date: *Monday, 9 May 2016 at 09:37
> *To: *Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc: *Adebusoye Anifalaje <busoye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DHIS2 Developers <
> dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JM Alcantara <jmalcantara1@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject: *Re: [Dhis2-devs] Null pointer exception calling
> .../api/me/programs
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> Noted - we look forward to get a resolution to the setting of CatCombo to
> 'default' in 2.22 soon - we import hundred of new data elements to our
> servers every week, and many of the templates out there have that column
> null. This was not a problem in 2.20.
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> *R*
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> On 9 May 2016 at 09:24, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Hi - I just want to confirm that I'm getting my facts right.
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> The fix for ensuring that a imported DEs with CatCombo=null are set to
> default is only available in 2.23, latest build.
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> Any 2.23 build, but yes.
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> The only workaround available right now for 2.22, that avoids re-starting
> tomcat (which makes the necessary correction at start-up) is to make sure
> that when importing DEs, we set the CatCombo to default in the XML/ CSV.
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> Correct.
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> Lars
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> R
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> *Rodolfo Meliá*
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> On 9 May 2016 at 08:19, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> And yes, we don't allow null in the categoryCombo field from 2.23 and
> upwards
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> --
>
> Morten Olav Hansen
>
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>
> University of Oslo
>
> http://www.dhis2.org
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> *Morten* do you think you could comment?
>
>
> Hi, these kinds of issues are fixed in our new importer (available in
> 2.23), for now I would include the default category combo. When you say
> Import, are you creating this payload yourself, or is it coming from
> another system?
>
> --
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> Morten Olav Hansen
>
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>
> University of Oslo
>
> http://www.dhis2.org
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