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[Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

does anyone have any insight about this issue? It is fundamental to
understand the behaviour of ASSIGN program rules in order to design the
programs.

Thanks,

Víctor

On 15 May 2017 at 17:26, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a question regarding the behaviour of ASSIGN activity type in
> program rules when the program has several stages.
>
> Our context is a program with three stages (opening, consultation,
> closure). In analysis we want to show data from opening and closure stages
> in the same table. Since currently it is not possible to do this kind of
> analysis in Event Report, we have created some ASSIGN program rules to copy
> values from closure stage to opening stage so that we have all the
> information we need for analysis in the same stage.
>
> In 2.25 we saw that it was possible to assign values to previous stages
> and we created a setup relying on this behaviour. But it seems to have
> changed in 2.26 and now the ASSIGN action only affects the "active" stage
> and does not create any value in previous or following stages...
>
> Since this point is not explicitely detailed in the documentation, we
> would like to know what is the expected "inter-stage" behaviour of ASSIGN
> in order to think about an strategy that will work in current and future
> releases. And if there is a way to do this kind of assignments in 2.26.
>
> Thank you a lot,
>
> Víctor
>