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Re: Removing the limit on the number of users to send a message

 

Hi there,

yes we can remove this for 2.26.

regards,

Lars


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just to add one piece of info here: Having the ability to email or
> whatsapp more than 200-250 users is going to be critical for disease
> surveillance systems too. In case of a major disease outbreak, these
> systems will have to broadcast messages via multiple protocols to far more
> than 200-250 people.
>
> Regards
> Calle
>
> On 24 October 2016 at 08:29, Sean Broomhead <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Lars and team - thanks for having a look at this for us.
>>
>> The requirement has emerged out of the success of the system Mike built
>> to manage placement allocations for all Interns and Community Service
>> Doctors in South Africa. Newly qualified doctors apply centrally,
>> expressing their priority choices for hospital placements for their two
>> years of internship and one year of community service. We run an algorithm
>> to determine which hospital each doctor gets sent to.
>>
>> Both doctors and government love the system. It's email tool now provides
>> the formal mechanism for communicating with these doctors about the
>> placement process. Unfortunately, with the batch size limits, we're having
>> to setup the small batches manually. The current cohort of doctors is about
>> 4,000 and the next cohort of nurses could reach 10,000.
>>
>> Please advise if this needs to go into Launchpad or GitHub, or if you
>> deal with this sort of request differently.
>>
>> Your assistance will be very helpful.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sean
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Mike Nelushi <mikeevolution@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lars/Morten,
>>>
>>> We want to remove the limit on the number of users to send a DHIS2(2.23)
>>> message. At the moment the limit is 200 users per group.
>>>
>>> I would like to implement this change since we have a system that need
>>> to send 10 000+ emails to our users for notifications.
>>>
>>> Was the limitation created to resolve server health issues when sending
>>> bulk emails?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Director ICT
>> HISP
>> +27 79 496 1993
>> Skype: getsean
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
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