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[Marc Garnica <marcgarnica13@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi devs,

We are trying to synchronize the data between Tracker Capture and Event
capture apps. We know that this might not be the expected use of these
apps, but for our requirements (visiblity, privacity, modularity of the
system) we are seriously considering having a process that extracts the
data from the Tracker side and post it as events. Then the tracker app will
be used for example by the end users, tracking their patients, scheduling
stages etc. But the data at event will be open to external but linked users
to see and analyse it.

We've been thinking in several ways of implementing it and before anything
we wonder if there's any work already been done in a similar topic.

- One of our first options was to user program indicators in the tracker
capture. But then we loose the patient level granularity and it means that
we will need to types of PI (one for event programs and one for tracker
programs) and then use both in order to analyze the individual data.

- The technical option is to create a sql script able to transfer the data
from tracker to event accessing directly to the database. In this case,
it's difficult to identify which tracker data is already transferred and
which not and surely we will encounter some other problems to create events
directly in the database. This script can be configured to be executed
daily in the server.

- Another option (preferable?)  is to create an app (normal app or
dashboard app) with a little bit of information (Number of events, number
of tracker entities) and a simple button to start the transfer of the
tracker data already not been transferred to event and the update of the
event not up to date.


We don't know if there are some less complex approaches to do this. Thank
you very much for the help!

Regards,

Marc