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[Petar Jovanovic <petar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We are using CSV metadata import to update some metadata objects in more 
convenient and collective manner.  For example, org unit names.
However, we noticed when trying to update org unit names with CSV 
import, that columns for which we omit values like coordinates are 
overwritten in the database with an empty string.
The documentation 
(https://docs.dhis2.org/2.29/en/developer/html/webapi_csv_metadata_import.html) 
says that values for not required columns can be omitted, but it is not 
clear what happens in the case of updates. Is overwriting the omitted 
columns with whatever is found in csv (even an empty string) is an 
intended behavior?  What I would expect is that the omitted columns are 
left untouched while those for which new values are provided will be 
updated.
Any clarification of this, or proposal to avoid clearing omitted columns 
when doing metadata update through CSV import?

Thank you!


Best,
Petar