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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent.  If its a small fix I wonder would it be easy to backport to
2.16?  I can check.  Then I can throw those xslt transforms away ...

On 6 January 2015 at 12:37, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Olav,
>
> this was actually fixed in trunk and 2.17 two days ago. You can now use
> the meta-data detailed export and make an export of the category combos
> that you need to transfer (those used for the data elements in your data
> sets). You then import that file first. It will contain all the relevant
> category option combos for those category combos.
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Olav Poppe <olav.poppe@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm in a situation where I want to transfer data and metadata for one
>> dataset from one DHIS instance to another. My initial idea was to use the
>> <<Meta-Data Detailed Export>> from the source database, select the relevant
>> dataset, and check <<include dependencies>>. This creates an XML-file with
>> the dataset, data element, cateories, categorycombos etc as expected.
>> However, after importing this metadata into the target database, I realised
>> that it did not include the categoryoptioncombos (with IDs). In other
>> words, even though I have the same data elements, categories,
>> categorycombos etc in both databases, I'm not able to transfer data between
>> the two since the data export relies on the categoryoptioncombo.
>>
>> One work-around is of course to use the <<regular>> meta-data export and
>> selecting category option combos, but then it includes the metadata for ALL
>> categorycombos, not just the three I'm interested in - so I will either
>> have to edit the XML or delete the ones I don't need later.
>>
>> Am I missing a more obvious/simpler way of doing this? Is it by design or
>> by oversight that the categoryoptioncombos are not included in the detailed
>> export? (I realise the categoryoptioncombos are a bit <<special>> since they
>> can be regenerated later etc)
>>
>> Olav
>>
>>
>>
>>
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