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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there

Sending in event IDs is not required, but its definitely recommended if you
want do repeated imports (good to have a unique id connected to your event
so that you don't end up with duplicates)

We offer a few options to generate UIDs:

1) Using the web-api /api/system/id (you can add limit=X to adjust how many
you need)
2) Install the dhis2 cli (npm -g install dhis2-cli) and then just do "dhis2
uid", or "dhis2 uid -h" to get more help
3) if you are nodejs directly you can also use the dhis2-uid lib for
generating uids (npm --save install dhis2-uid)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dhis2-cli
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dhis2-uid

-- 
Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Terence Scott <
terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> We have collected animal vaccination data (including GPS coordinates,
> time, date, species etc.) in a custom developed program and have a CSV
> output for this program. We are looking to try to import the data from the
> custom-built programme into our DHIS2 instance via Event import. I have
> gotten the import to work on Event export files that I have edited with new
> animal data (e.g. by changing the species) and this works, as it simply
> updates the old event (based on the event ID). However, we would like to
> import these data as new events as opposed to simply replacing existing
> events currently on the system.
>
> Therefore, I would like to please find out as to whether it is possible to
> do one of the following:
>
> 1) Do an event import without an Event ID (i.e. register a new event on
> the DHIS2 instance via Event import)
>     - I have looked through the documentation but am unable to find out
> whether            this is possible
>     - In the Developer Docs, it seems to mention that import using XML
> does not            require an Event ID, but I have not managed to
> determine whether I am                  misinterpreting this or whether I
> simply do not know how to do it.
>
> 2) Generate our own Event IDs in our custom-built programme that will be
> recognised by the DHIS2 instance.
>     - Is there some way by which the Event IDs could be automatically
> generated          outside of the DHIS2 instance (in our programme) so that
> new events can be          imported into the instance?
>
> Please let me know if you need any further clarification. I would really
> appreciate any help that you could provide!
>
> Kind regards,
> Terence
>
>
> Terence Scott
>
> Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC)
> Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) Steering Committee
> terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://paracon.rabiesalliance.org
> Skype: tpscott1987
>
>
>
>
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