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[Isabane Janvier <isabanej@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Calle,
Thank you so much for your quick response.


Best Regards,

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*ISABANE Janvier*
*Junior Programmer*
*HISP Rwanda.*
Mobile: +250 788 286 107,
address: KG 113 St, Kigali - Rwanda

website: hisprwanda.org

e-mail: isabane.janvier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx / isabanej@xxxxxxxxx




On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 11:04, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The short answer is NO - the event date is what I normally call an
> "anchor" field, similar to e.g. having to specify an orgunit for any
> enrollment.
>
> There is no simplistic solution to this (very common) challenge of users
> capturing data without actually consciously assessing the consistency and
> "meaning" of what they capture.
>
> If the event contains any other dates you can use program rules to compare
> it with the event date (at least in 2.30 / 2.31, which supports the use of
> stage-specific event dates in program rules/indicators) - but you are in
> many ways faced with the same challenge for ANY date field since the
> calender popup always default to the current date.
>
> So my preferred solution is to hit the problem straight on:
> - intensive training of data capturers on how to avoid this mistake
> - intensive monitoring / checking of what they capture until they have
> largely got it right.
>
> Or in other words, don't let human beings getting away with being
> slackers....
>
> Regards
> Calle
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 09:46, Isabane Janvier <isabanej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>> My name is ISABANE Janvier from HISP – Rwanda. We are currently working
>> on tracker program and we would like to know if there is a way of not
>> prompting current date (Leave It empty) on reporting date while creating
>> a new event.
>>
>> The reason is that “People tend to leave it as it is (Current Date) shows
>> up by default even when historical date entered ”
>>
>> for instance I want to capture event happened last week and by adding the
>> new event on stage, reporting date comes by current date by default. Users
>> by mistake leave it as it is.
>>
>>
>> [image: image.jpeg]
>>
>> we are using DHIS2 Version 2.28
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> *ISABANE Janvier*
>> *Junior Programmer*
>> *HISP Rwanda.*
>> Mobile: +250 788 286 107,
>> address: KG 113 St, Kigali - Rwanda
>>
>> website: hisprwanda.org
>>
>> e-mail: isabane.janvier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx / isabanej@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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