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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

yes it is supposed to read "Exactly 11 characters". Will update it.

regards,

Lars

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> As far as I know, the length has always been 11. Are you sure they were
> generated by DHIS2? we didn't validate before, so if you made them
> outside.. they would be allowed in earlier versions
>
> And yes, it will only generate 11 char UIDs (/api/system/id?limit=10 to
> get new ones)
>
> --
> Morten
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:05 AM, David Hagan <david.hagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> I’m transferring organisation units between two instances of version 2.21
>> (XML Metadata import).
>>
>> I received two ‘ignored’ OrgUnits on a Dry Run import where the error
>> message indicated *“Validation Violations:
>> [ValidationViolation{property=‘id’, message=‘Allowed range for length [11,
>> 11], length is 10’, value=w6pbH5HjDD}]”*
>>
>> On further investigation, I noted the developer manual indicates that a
>> UID is a “Stable identifier. *Max 11 char.* Will be generated by system
>> if not specified.”
>>
>> These were system generated ID’s (from a previous version 2.18), but it
>> looks like the import schema check is specified as 11 char only (i.e. won’t
>> accept a 10 char ID).
>>
>> Any insights? (We can get around it by generating a new UID of course for
>> the object in question I suppose, but are the new versions of DHIS2
>> guaranteed to only generate 11 Char UIDs?)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
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