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Archana Chillala
Application Developer
Email archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Telephone +91 9100960533 <+91+9100960533>

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Archana Chillala <archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi
>
> We are using DHIS version 2.26. We are exploring the new value type "*Age*"
> that has been introduced with this release. On the UI, when we enter a
> date, it calculates the age in years, months and days perfectly. But we
> observe that the calculated age in years is not stored in the DB. The value
> of an Age type data element is stored only as a date (YYYY-MM-DD) in the
> database. We would like to use the age in years in analytics on the
> visualisation apps. We have tried using program indicators for the same,
> but that did not work as expected.
>
> Could you please suggest how we could leverage the use of age in years,
> given the existing functionality.
>
>
>
> *Cheers*,
>
> Archana Chillala
> Application Developer
> Email archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Telephone +91 9100960533 <+91+9100960533>
>
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