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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laura,

There is no limit to the number of levels.

Knut

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Laura E. Lincks <
laura.lincks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A point of service in our world is sort of like a specialty treatment
> center within a facility, a hospital, etc. pertaining to HIV Testing and
> Counseling.  It could be as specific as "In-patient for Adult Males" or a
> general "Outpatient" or it could be "Family Planning" or "VCT". I'm dealing
> with 2 issues at the moment: addressing the immediate need of a specific
> country for reporting this week and devising a consistent way to set up all
> countries' POSs.
>
> For the specific country issue we are setting them up as another
> organisation unit level. We can change that later if need be, but we needed
> a solution now. This country has very few POS types (2 or 3) and very few
> sites with POS (14-15). We have been having some confusion with categories
> for this country and are in the midst of cleaning some of that up so I
> didn't want to add more categories.
>
> I agree that if POSs are not consistent across all Org Units a data set
> categoriy could cause potential confusion or data entry errors.
>
> Creating POSs as Org Unit levels below facility level is how we do it in
> our Universal system. Some of our countries use other sub-facility Org Unit
> levels for other purposes in their DHIS instances and deal with POS in
> other ways. Data set category is one way but they also have a form where
> they just extract the data and assign it to the proper POS in other systems
> if need be -- not very efficient. I'm trying to determine how best to apply
> a consistent structure for a Universal configuration. For now we have mixed
> solutions in place.
>
> Does DHIS have a limit in regard to the number of Org Unit levels can be
> set up?
>
> *Laura E. Lincks*
> Database Manager/Developer
> ICAP - Columbia University
> Mailman School of Public Health
> 60 Haven Ave, Floor B1
> New York, NY 10032
> Tel: 212 304 7132
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Laura,
>>
>> let me ask:
>>
>> - What are your "point of services" ?
>> - How many?
>> - Are the point of services consistent across all facilities, or are
>> there lots of variation?
>>
>> If the point of services are few and consistent across most facilities I
>> would use data set categories.
>>
>> If they differ a lot (most likely) I would use org units.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Laura E. Lincks <
>> laura.lincks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am interested in knowing how teams are setting up Point of Service
>>> sites in DHIS.
>>>
>>> I have thought of a couple of ways to do so:
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Create an Organisational Unit level (POS) underneath facility
>>>    level which will collect Testing and Counseling data via a data set which
>>>    is set up to only be accessible to Org Units at this POS level
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Create a data set for Testing and Counseling data and add a Point
>>>    of Service Category to it. Data will be added at the Facility level: data
>>>    set, reporting period AND Point of Service Type would be selected prior to
>>>    adding data on the data entry screen.
>>>
>>>
>>> I imagine this is not an issue unique to us and am curious what others'
>>> solutions are.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> *Laura E. Lincks*
>>> Database Manager/Developer
>>> ICAP - Columbia University
>>> Mailman School of Public Health
>>> 60 Haven Ave, Floor B1
>>> New York, NY 10032
>>> Tel: 212 304 7132
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Lars Helge Øverland
>> Lead developer, DHIS 2
>> University of Oslo
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Knut Staring
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