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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uwe you are correct in your discovery regarding uniqueness.

There is a bit of history to the problem which I can't go into all the
details here.  But I do agree that global uniqueness of catopt codes
(and names) shouldn't be required across categories, but currently
unfortunately you will have to work around it till we work up a better
solution.

On 30 November 2015 at 11:04, Uwe Wahser <uwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> as far as I see CategoryOptions right now, codes and short names of
> CategoryOptions must be defined globally unique. If I want to code
> gender-male as “M”, I cannot code another “M” for approach-multilateral. In
> the same way, numbered codes are also not possible for multiple categories,
> unless I include a code for the Category into the Option-code.
>
>
> I would have expected uniqueness within one category, which would allow for
> short codes or names to be displayed in result tables and charts and would
> have allowed me to import the original codes from our source-system without
> additional mappings.
>
>
> Is there any way for me to define CategoryOptions codes and short names
> unique per Category, e.g. is there some hidden setting to allow that?
>
>
> Grateful for ideas ...
>
>
> Uwe
>
>
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