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Re: changing aggregation operator and deleting data elements

 

Hi Mark

AggregationType was not added to the data element merge method, fixed and
backported to 2.22.

--
Morten

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Morten,
>
> It seems the dataElement endpoint does not allow the aggregationType to be
> changed?
>
> Sending a PUT payload of the object with the aggregationType set to
> 'AVERAGE' from 'SUM' returns successfully. It does however not update the
> value correctly.
>
> Is this intended? Is one not supposed to change the aggregateType?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Which version are you using? Are you using the French translation?
>>
>> Are you able to reproduce it on the demo instance?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Lavreys <thomaslavreys@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I created a data element ‘new respiratory disease cases’, however, after
>>> filling in my data I realized I put the aggregation operator to ‘Sum’
>>> instead of ‘Average (sum in org unit hierarchy)’ meaning I can’t create any
>>> incidence rates. Consequently, I changed this from Sum à Average (sum
>>> in org unit hierarchy), but nothing really changed, and when I looked back
>>> at the details of my data element, the aggregation operator was set to
>>> ‘Sum’ again. Is this a bug or is this something that just can’t be changed,
>>> at least when data has already been filled in?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I also tried another approach, deleting the data element. However, I
>>> just get an error message saying: Could not delete due to association with
>>> another object: DataValue. Does this mean I have to delete all the data
>>> connected to this data element? And would I have to do anything else before
>>> I can delete the data element? I tried to find if anyone else asked the
>>> same question in the past, but there seems to be little info about this on
>>> the web, and it could be handy to know this if I were to create data
>>> elements that need to be deleted in the future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas Lavreys
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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