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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay I understand. I think supporting your requirement would def make
sense. I am only worried this will incur a huge performance penalty to the
aggregation process.
On May 31, 2012 9:51 AM, <hiattt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Thanks, Lars. Sorry for the ambiguity in my original question. I would
> still like to have the indicator calculated for each time period, I would
> just like it to omit from the calculation org units that didn’t report the
> numerator. ****
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> Thanks, for pointing out that setting. That’s also very useful.****
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> Tom****
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> *From:* Lars Helge Øverland [mailto:larshelge@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* 31 May 2012 15:24
> *To:* **Hiatt, Mr Tom** (WPRO)
> *Cc:* **dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx**
> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Missing values in calculating indicators****
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> Hi Tom,****
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> regarding indicators we do produce the aggregated value if the numerator
> is not existing or zero by default. The reason is that we often connect
> with 3rd party tools like Excel which will do their own aggregation based
> on data e.g. on the lowest level. ****
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> If you prefer to omit indicators with zero numerators you can go to system
> settings and set the "Omit indicator values with zero numerator value in
> data mart" setting to true.****
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> We of course ignore indicators where the denominator is not existing/zero
> as it would be illegal to calculate.****
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> Lars****
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> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:13 AM, <hiattt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> I see that when indicators are calculated, records where either the
> numerator or denominator is missing are not excluded. For me this would be
> ideal default behavior so that the indicator isn’t thrown wildly off by
> assuming no reporting is the same as reporting 0. I could imagine some
> times when one would want an unreported numerator to be treated as 0 (if
> it’s likely that it isn’t reported, because it doesn’t exist), so maybe an
> option to override default in the indicator definition screen would be
> good. I can’t think of a scenario where one would want missing denominators
> to be treated as 0.****
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> I don’t know if others are running into this, or if it’s only me. If there
> is a way to set this already let me know.****
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> Thanks,****
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> Tom****
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