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[gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Calle,
I had already did as you suggested but i am face with a challenge of
attaching my category combination to the various data element.

Please i need help

On 11/15/17, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gerald,
>
> OK, so there is no intention or requirement to track and analyze such data
> per school, then. If the idea is simply to somehow store a list of schools
> from where the data originates, and assuming that you are collecting it per
> chiefdom and per month, I would rather change the data element you have
> already created into a long text field. Capturers can then add school names
> in there, separated by a semi-colon or similar delimiter.
>
> Just make sure everybody understands that if the data per chiefdom per
> month has not already been aggregated in the input form, then such
> aggregation must be done manually during data entry.
>
> Note also that you do have one other possibility, and that is to treat each
> school report received as an event - or in other words you set this up as
> an Event Program - without registration, presumably - where the school
> itself it the entity.
>
> Regards
> Calle
>
> On 15 November 2017 at 11:45, gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear Calle,
>> Thanks for your response. That was what i told the partners but their
>> budget didn't permitted them and they didn't have names for all the
>> schools. How does comments works on DataSet? Because we can use the
>> option of comments to tag names to a particular Data Entry because the
>> name of the schools are for reference purposes.
>>
>> On 11/15/17, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Gerald,
>> >
>> > I would not recommend using the standard HMIS for school health - it
>> would
>> > give you minimal control and reporting capabilities per school.
>> >
>> > In South Africa, school health is captured into a separate DHIS2
>> > database
>> > where the hierarchy ends with schools and not health facilities
>> > (although
>> > each school might store a reference health facility, of course). All
>> > the
>> > ~30,000 schools in the country is part of that orghierarchy, and we
>> > generally try to get annual data for the number of learners (pupils)
>> > per
>> > grade, which you can then use as denominator data to get coverage
>> > indicators.
>> >
>> > You COULD of course add the schools into the HMIS orghierarchy, but
>> > IMHO
>> > that is rather messy - better to use a separate database
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Calle
>> >
>> > On 15 November 2017 at 08:30, gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear All,
>> >> I created a Teenage Pregnancy dataSet whose data should be captured
>> >> from schools. Since we have multiple schools per Chiefdom; i created a
>> >> data element 'school' in the form of a text string. During data entry,
>> >> when a school had been entered for a particular chiefdom, it don't
>> >> accept another school again.
>> >>
>> >> Please can someone help.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Gerald
>> >>
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>>
>> Gerald
>>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Gerald