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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Scheduling of data mart exports is already a blueprint targetted for 2.0.6:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/datamart-jobs
>
> The idea is to have this built-in and configurable from the DHIS UI.

Thats good. However, I think the more general principle of being able
to access DHIS2 functionality from command line tools would be very
valuable, particularly through RESTful URLs.

Knut

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> On 7 November 2010 08:37, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi . I was wondering if anyone has done any scripting to automate
>> certain tasks (namely the datamart) with DHIS2. I came across this
>> utility for Firefox which was extremely easy to use and did pretty
>> much what I wanted.
>>
>> http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/?ref=fxtab
>>
>> Usually, I would do this sort of thing through a shell script, but I
>> have not really figured out how to login to DHIS2 through a command
>> line tool like wget. Basic HTTP authentication does not seem to be
>> supported, but I thought I had seen a commit about this some time ago.
>>
>> Basically, I think it would be very useful to be able to
>> programatically call URLs, for instance to regenerate the datamart and
>> report tables on a period and scheduled basis. This iMacro extension
>> is free, but only the paid version can be used through the command
>> line or Windows Task Scheduler. Any one else have some ideas how this
>> could be done?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
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>> Jason P. Pickering
>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>> tel:+260968395190
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Knut Staring