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[Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <abyot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, we are aware of the limitation and we are working on to improve that.
See here https://jira.dhis2.org/browse/DHIS2-677

At the moment you can only achieve that if you have something like national
id or other unique ids.

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

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Georgi Chakarov <georgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> This will not work, because each of this attributes can have a duplicate.
> E.g. you might have two persons by the name of “John”. It is the
> combination of those attributes that needs to be unique, as it is less
> likely to have two people with the same First Name and Surname, born on the
> same date.
>
>
>
> There should be another solution. Our clients are very surprised how a
> system is unable to lookup in the existing records and identify duplicates.
> Anyone?
>
>
>
> Georgi
>
>
>
> *From:* Abyot Asalefew Gizaw [mailto:abyot@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:13 AM
> *To:* Stanley Kalyati <skalyati@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* Georgi Chakarov <georgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; DHIS Users <
> dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; DHIS 2 Developers list <
> dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Avoid double registration of Tracked entities
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> The only possibility we have at the moment is if you make those attributes
> unique.
>
>
> --
>
> Abyot A. Gizaw.
>
> Senior Engineer, DHIS2
>
> University of Oslo
>
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Stanley Kalyati <skalyati@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Has anyone responded to this? Am also very interested.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2017 11:22 AM, "Georgi Chakarov" <georgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Is there a way to avoid a double registration of Tracked entities? E.g.
> the attributes are Name, Surname, Date of Birth, can I create a program
> rule that searches if all three values match existing records to prompt a
> message that a person with such attributes already exists? Another
> suggestion is also welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Georgi
>
>
>
>
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