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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julhas,

that's an interesting problem. We could certainly implement support for
deletion per org unit/period.

I would however recommend another approach: For each aggregate report you
send from eTBM, make sure you send a value, including 0, for* each field*
in the aggregate TB form. This will make your information more explicit,
ie. you communicate that for all data element + category option combos
exactly how many cases you have. The benefit then is that if cases are
deleted in the upstream system (eTBM), it will be correctly reflected in
the aggregate form in DHIS 2.

This will be semantically more correct than simply dropping all data values
first. I.e. when you look at the audit logs for each data element, you will
see that a value changed from a positive value, then potentially to a 0
value. This will look better compared to audit logs showing that all values
were deleted every day. This will improve auditability and data validation.

Of course this might lead to the aggregate export payload becoming a bit
bigger, but I think that can be justified. You can also make sure that the
TB data elements are set to "zero not significant", which will delete or
not store 0 values on the DHIS 2 side.

Let me know if this sounds reasonable.

best,

Lars










On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Julhas Sujan <julhaspustcse@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Good evening!
>
> We are working on DHIS2 TB-10,11 and 12 forms (for Bangladesh) to
> integrate with external eTB manager application <http://etbmanagerbd.org/>.
> The TB forms have developed in DHIS2 for collecting TB -10,11 and 12 data
> from Upazila level in Bangladesh but we have a local level
> application(eTBM) that is using to collect individual case record and
> generate aggregated TB-10,11 and 12 reports. Now  our goal is to integrate
> eTMB with DHIS2 TB forms.
>
> Already we have tested the integration that is working fine. But we are
> facing a problem with deleting existing records of these forms. I have a
> question on it:
>
> *Is there any way of requesting DHIS2 to clear or delete the whole TB 10
> form for a specific orgunit and period before sending the external data?*
>
>
> Thank you very much for your co-operations.
>
>
> *If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to let me know.*
>
> *Best Regards*
> *Julhas Sujan*
> Senior Java Programmer
> Management Science for Health(MSH)
> Dhaka, Bangladesh
> Cell: +8801989 442856
> Skype: julhas08
> ​
> www.msh.org http://siapsprogram.org/wherewework/bangladesh/
>
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
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