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Re: ProgramIndicators questions

 

Hi Martin,

On 21 February 2018 at 11:03, Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi DHIS2 dev team!
>
> I'm working on a decently large tracker program, and got some questions
> regarding ProgramIndicators:
>
> - It looks like ProgramIndicator can only refer to DataElements, not other
> ProgramIndicators (like "aggregate" Indicators can) - is there any specific
> reason for this? Will this constraint be left at some point in the future?
> Building indicators on top of other indicators is quite handy
>

Correct, program indicators cannot refer to other program indicators. We do
consider supporting this in the future.

Aggregate indicators can refer to program indicators though.


> - Are the programIndicator results linked to running the analytics (when
> viewing them in the Event Manager app)? I tried to test that one, but was
> not totally sure of my results (as the pivot table & browser are doing a
> lot of caching too)
>
>
Yes it is.

regards,

Lars




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