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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

We do have a specific version of 2.14 which accommodates weeks starting on
Wednesday. However this needs to be aligned with Morten's work on 2.16
On Aug 6, 2014 7:54 AM, "Jason Pickering" <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Randy,
>
> @Bob, yes, Tcl is much more mainstream. :) But as Lars points out, there
> is no need to create these manually if you are just importing data, as they
> will be created automatically anyway.
>
>
>
> @Randy, simply adding a new period type to the periottype table will not
> work. There is a lot of code behind each period , so if the particular
> period which you have is not implemented, then it will have to be
> implemented in Java. Morten has done a lot of work on this lately but this
> period type is not there yet I think.
>
> I am pretty sure this issue has been discussed before on the list, of so
> called "Epi weeks". There have also been requests for other weeks, starting
> on Wednesday as well. As of now, there is no solution for this.
>
> Best regards,
> Jason
>
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Wilson, Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob and Jason,
>>
>> Thanks for these quick responses - I also noticed that ISO weeks and
>> Epidemiological weeks are different (the latter start on Sunday and end on
>> Saturday, while the ISO weeks start on Monday).  I tried to create a new
>> periodtype 'EPIWeekly" and all new periods which I imported into the period
>> table on my local machine and then restarted tomcat - no luck!
>>
>> See the error message below. - it seems like my periodtype is unknown to
>> the javascripts that run during startup.
>>
>> * INFO  2014-08-05 14:16:48,158 Executing startup routine [2 of 14,
>> runlevel 2]:
>>  PeriodTypePopulator (DefaultStartupRoutineExecutor.java
>> [localhost-startStop-1]
>> )
>> * ERROR 2014-08-05 14:16:48,228 org.hibernate.WrongClassException: Object
>> with i
>> d: 2627 was not of the specified subclass:
>> org.hisp.dhis.period.PeriodType (Disc
>> riminator: EPIWeekly)
>>
>> Now that we are migrating our disease surveillance system to DHIS-2 we
>> are going to need the epidemiological weeks - and I've got 3 years of
>> Sunday to Saturday data to import.  *Ismail, I guess we need to put this
>> into our generic requirements for IDSR- it will have an impact on quite a
>> few things including import/export which looks for ISO dates.*
>>
>> I suppose I can pretend they are the same for the import process and then
>> work out a way to change later.  The main issue is that the period selector
>> in data entry displays the Week number as well as the start and end dates,
>> otherwise users would never notice.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5 August 2014 12:04, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No nothing better but could rattle something off - in something
>>>> slightly less exotic than R :-)
>>>>
>>>> Two questions mind you (more for developers):
>>>> 1.  I see we have a period_periodid_seq which doesn't seem to be used.
>>>>  I wonder is this a relic which needs to be removed?  Or does it have some
>>>> other use?
>>>> 2.  Its very easy to create duplicate periods which is not nice.
>>>>  Probably we should consider placing a uniqueness constraint on
>>>> periodtype+startdate
>>>>
>>>
>>> To answer my own question, different versions of dhis have treated these
>>> issues differently. So you'd want to be a little careful depending on the
>>> dhis version used.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On 5 August 2014 11:49, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Randy,
>>>>> I see Bob just replied but was about to send this and will go ahead,
>>>>> but would wait for a more authoritative answer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is an R script  which I have used in the past. It is very basic
>>>>> and does not take into account weeks which might already exist. It simply
>>>>> creates a lot of INSERT statements. You will get errors for those which
>>>>> already exist. It would be fairly easy to do this, but would require having
>>>>> R connected to your postgres database to filter out periods which already
>>>>> exist.
>>>>>
>>>>> Use at your own peril and hopefully Bob has something better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>> #require(ISOweek)
>>>>> #Adjust to your needs
>>>>> week.starts<-seq(ISOdate(2011,1,3), ISOdate(2014,8,3), by = "1 week")
>>>>> #Number of seconds in a week
>>>>> week.ends<-week.starts + 518399
>>>>> #Get the week names in case you need it
>>>>> #week.names<-gsub("-","",substring(date2ISOweek(week.starts),0,8))
>>>>>
>>>>> sql<-paste0("INSERT INTO periods
>>>>> (periodid,periodtypeid,startdate,enddate)
>>>>> VALUES(nextval('hibernate_sequence'::regclass),2,","'",as.Date(week.starts),"','",as.Date(week.ends),"');")
>>>>> cat(sql,file="insert_periods.sql)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Randy do you need a script to generate these?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4 August 2014 17:11, Wilson, Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I thought I saw a posting on inserting periods into the DHIS-2 for
>>>>>>> earlier periods in time, but can't seem to find it any longer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I need ISO weekly periods going back to 2011. I also notice that
>>>>>>> there are some instances where there are 53 ISO weeks in a year, but that
>>>>>>> does not appear to be an option in DHIS-2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can someone advise?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Randy Wilson*
>>>>>>>
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>>
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>>
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