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[Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds like a very good approach - I will try.


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Rodolfo,
>
> You can also use the Web API to get an xml dump of a group of data
> elements like this:
> http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/dataElementGroups/qfxEYY9xAl6.xml
>
> So you could
> 1) put all the data elements you want to move over to another instance
> into one data element group,
> 2) use the Web-API browser: http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources ,
> 3) click on html link next to DataElementGroups and then look for your
> group and click on the XML linkto get the XML you need for your data
> elements.
> 4) That XML can be imported using metadata import on another instance.
>
> Lars just explained that to me today so I have not tested it yet, but it
> is supposed to work. Lars, or others, please correct me if I am wrong.
>
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> On 8 April 2013 22:34, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rodolfo
>>
>> The old metadata export used a very manually crafted parser for a
>> language called dxf 1.0 which was past its sell-by date and becoming hard
>> to maintain.
>>
>> The newer metadata export uses dxf 2.0 which is a much more complete
>> reflection of the domain objects but I note it doesn't allow the selection
>> of particular dataelement groups or indicator groups.
>>
>> We will be working on some functionality to export the selection of all
>> metadata which might be related to a particular group of indicators, but
>> that is coming.
>>
>> In the meantime if there is particular filtering you want to do of the
>> full metadata dump then share on this list and I (or someone else) can
>> probably help with an xslt transform you could use which would be
>> infinitely beter than editing manually.
>>
>> If you are wanting to edit then there a number of approaches.  The oxygen
>> xml editor is by far the best in my view but sadly not free.  emacs (nxml
>> mode) works really well even on mac and windows but is not for everybody.
>>  For working with xml from the mac or windows shell, then libxml from
>> http://www.xmlsoft.org/ comes with the handy xmllint tool which can do
>> lots of things, but one of the most useful is to "pretty print" format the
>> xml.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 April 2013 19:20, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> ... is gone
>>>
>>> Hi - 2.10 as well as early development releases of 2.11 had an 'DXF
>>> Detailed Metadata Export' option. This function allowed to specify what
>>> Data Elements and Indicators to export. It was great for prototyping
>>> something in one server, and then moving the final definitions to another
>>> box. The final release of 2.11 doesn't have that option anymore. I curios
>>> to learn why the functionality was axed - i suspect some technical reasons
>>> relating to the explicit use of UID across the new version.
>>>
>>> So if that function is not coming back, what is the best strategy for
>>> moving metadata from one instance to another? I imagine the answer is using
>>> an XML editor  and editing the export XML that you get from the metadata
>>> export option. Is that the case? Any suggestions of good XML editors that
>>> allow to read the resulting XML by a human being, so you can be selective
>>> about what you are moving between boxes? I'm looking for a Mac editor, and
>>> a Windows editor.
>>>
>>> Rodolfo
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