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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,
Welcome!

Its is a bit confusing to me as well. Let me try and explain as best
as I can. Others that understand the model may correct me.


You need to create a "Concept". In this case, it would probably
"Phase" as well.

 You need to create categories. In your case this would be a "Phase".

You need to create category options, "Phase A" and "Phase B" for the
category "Phase".

You need a "Data element category combination" as well. In your case,
it would be "Phases" perhaps. If the data elements is further
disaggregated by categories "Age" and "Gender" you could add these
categories as well.

Finally , you need a data element "Number of patients testing positive
for disease X"  assigned tp "Combination of categories"


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jason

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Dave Trombley <dave.trombley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>    Hi all
>
>      I'm new to DHIS2, and going through the process of migrating a paper
> HMIS to a DHIS2 data schema.
>
>      I have a tabular data structure where I can identify the data elements,
> and the categories/dimensions of those elements.  Data elements are such as
> "Number of patients testing positive for disease X" and categories are such
> as "in phase A", "in Phase B", etc.
>
>      I'd like the data entry form to show up with different cells to enter
> "Number of patients testing positive (in phase A)" and "Number of patients
> testing positive (in phase B)", as it seems they should if the categories
> are defined.  However, I'm having trouble making this happen.
>
>      The documentation at several points makes references to "assigning a
> category to a data element" but I cannot find any place where it described
> how this is done, nor can I seem to make it happen after playing with the
> interface for about an hour.  This is all very confusing, and I'm hoping
> someone can explain how it works?
>
>     Do I need to create a category combo?  Why are category combos I create
> not showing up in the dataset section form's "category combo" dropdown,
> ever?   Do categories associate with data elements or with (groups, sets,
> datasets, dataset sections), etc?  How do all of these entities relate?
>
>
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