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Re: Tracker Design - why are there no COMMENT field for TEIattributeValue and TEIdataValue?

 

Hi Calle,

Though not per data value, we do have support for comment per event and
also per enrollment.

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Abyot A. Gizaw.
Senior Engineer, DHIS2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> One design feature for DHIS aggregated data that has been there since 1997
> is the COMMENT field - which is used to support a "rich picture" by
> enabling users to add explanatory comments or additional info linked
> directly to a specific data value.
>
> Why are there no comment fields within Events and Tracker? It's of course
> possible to add additional attributes or data elements to store the "richer
> picture" but it would be preferable to have the COMMENT option as an
> alternative.
>
> Regards
> Calle
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