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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut

On 5 July 2013 11:32, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes you can use uid, code and name as identifier scheme (strategory for
>> matching meta-data). A caveat, the name property of organisation unit is
>> not unique after 2.11 and we consider removing that option.
>>
>
> I  actually would recommend we keep that option even though uniqueness of
> names is (thankfully) no longer enforced by DHIS2. In a lot of situations,
> names is all you have to match on, so it would be a pity to remove this
> option.
>

Names might be all you have to match on when importing orgunits,
bootstrapping.  But after this is done, I think data import should always
be able to work with codes or uids.

Bob


>
> It then becomes the user's responsibility to ensure uniqueness - but
> perhaps we could aid the user by checking for uniqueness and sending out an
> alert in case of duplicates? I think that would be the best solution.
>
> Knut
>
>
>
>
>> In your import, did you click "more options" and selected name as org
>> unit id scheme? Are you are there is an org unit in your db with name
>> "London"?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, <zebra_st@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> my DHIS is Version: 2.12 installed on UBUNTU 12.04 LTS (32bit).
>>> I am going to import some data in the CSV format.
>>>
>>> According to this document, I can use in the field «org unit» name or
>>> code.
>>> http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/es/user/html/ch17s04.html
>>>
>>> When I load CSV file with “name” in org unit field (SERVICES ->
>>> IMPORT-EXPORT -> CSV DATA IMPORT (DRY RUN – YES)), I receive the error
>>> “ignored” for this name.
>>>
>>> The example of my CSV file:
>>> "dataelement","period","orgunit","categoryoptioncombo","value"
>>> ,"storedby","timestamp","comment","followup"
>>> "AzIkeEEMnWD","201303","London","lDg7pKq4CDk","4343","admin","2013-
>>> 05-30",,"false"
>>>
>>> Can we use name or code in the field «org unit» in CSV file for import?
>>>
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