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Re: ProgramIndicators questions

 

On 21 February 2018 at 12:12, Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Markus & Lars,
> Thanks both for your answers.
>
> Ok so: programIndicators have a more powerful evaluation engine (with the
> d2:condition for example), but indicators can use other indicators.
> What I'm not 100% is the consequence of using a (aggregate) indicator to
> compose program indicators - is it still possible in this case to compute
> values "per event" or will it only work for aggregated values per org unit
> per period?
>
>
No unfortunately not per event.





> Martin
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Markus Bekken <markus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey Martin!
>> - You can make composite indicators that consists of other program
>> indicators, but program indicators can not be nested within each other
>> directly.
>> - Yes-  program indicator values are always based on the data in the
>> analytics_* tables.
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> 21. feb. 2018 kl. 11:03 skrev Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> 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
>> - 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)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Martin
>>
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