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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 December 2012 00:08, Alvin B. Marcelo <alvin.marcelo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm also interested in the answer to the question.
>
> My presumption is that this constraint was placed to ensure that artifacts
> created from previously defined data elements are will always persist.
> Another way of saying this is:
>
> If before I saved Number of Maternal Deaths in org_unit January 2012 = 10,
> deleting the data (10) will result in destroying some integrity that was
> built into DHIS2.
>
> Am I right?
>
>
>
Yes that's right, Alvin and Nick.  So you would have to delete the
datavalues in the database associated with this dataelement before you can
remove the dataelement.



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> Subject: [Dhis2-users] Deleting data elements with data attached to them
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