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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paulo,

my suggestion was only from the top of my head and it is only feasible when
running on one/few online instances. In general I strongly recommend to
have as few offline instances as possible, even if that means users will
have to live with patchy connectivity for a while.

cheers

Lars



On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Paulo Grácio
<pgracio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> At this moment I’m trying to define an approach to address a requirement
> about data set submissions deadlines between levels.****
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> Imagine that you have 4 levels of Organization Units, National, Province,
> District and Health  Units.****
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> **-          **Health Units send their aggregated data to District using
> paper forms till the end of the month for monthly cases.****
>
> **-          **District Operator enters data on DHIS2. Defining expiry
> days to 5, we have the possibility to enter data till 5 days after the end
> date of the selected data entry period. In this case, would be interesting
> to notify Operators on day 1, deadline of Health Units, saying that they
> should enter data and one day before deadline telling that data submission
> will be locked for further entry.****
>
> **-          **Province Operator has to import Data from District till 10
> days after the end date of the selected data entry period. ****
>
> **-          **National Operator has to import Data from Province till 15
> days after the end date of the selected data entry period.****
>
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>
> We are planning to have a hybrid deployment, this scenario only applies
> when District and Province are Offline installations.  Lars suggestion
> seems to be flexible enough, my question is what if in some districts I
> have to use DHIS2 Live because of hardware limitations?****
>
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>
> Regards,****
>
> Paulo Grácio****
>
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>
> *From:* Lars Helge Øverland [mailto:larshelge@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* segunda-feira, 13 de Maio de 2013 12:35
> *To:* Ola Hodne Titlestad
> *Cc:* Paulo Grácio; dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Notification - Deadline for data set
> submission****
>
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>
> Hi Paulo,****
>
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>
> sorry not at the moment.****
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> However, messaging is exposed through the web API, so you could do
> something like this:****
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> - create a SQL view which gives you the ids of the users who have not
> completed the form this month, using some clever SQL which joins
> completedatasetregistration, organisationunit and user.****
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> - set up a script which retrieves that sql view as json, parses it and
> uses cURL to request the web api to dispatch messages to those user with a
> descriptive message.****
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> - run that script as a cron job, lets say two days before the dealine
> every month.****
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> See here for messaging api docs:****
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> http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch25s11.html****
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> And here for sql view api docs:****
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> http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch25s17.html****
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> regards,****
>
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>
> Lars****
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