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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Karina,

If you don't care about the day, just pick one (perhaps a fixed one).

Lars just replied to the other question, and also recommends using events
for your use case.

Regards,
Knut

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Karina Dian Lestari <
karinadnlstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Knut,
>
> thank you for replying.
> I haven't try to use events. I already see in demo, it seems useful. But I
> am not sure how to create events for my data since I do not record the
> date, only month and year. If this is the case, can I still use events?
>
> Another issue, I asked this in different subject but no one reply to it.
> What is the best way to count data value? I have several data elements
> which the value need to be counted. I tried several things but none of them
> works.
>
> Thank you for your kind help.
>
> Best regards,
> Karina.
>
> On 19 May 2016 at 15:12, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Karina,
>>
>> There is no problem in adding additional locations/OrgUnits later. Also,
>> if no data is entered for a month, nothing will be entered in the database,
>> so this is also fine.
>>
>> Since you are doing a survey, another option (but not sure it would be
>> any better in your case) could be to use events, which would have a date of
>> recording.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Knut
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Karina Dian Lestari <
>> karinadnlstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please help, I need your suggestions. I have this data called mass blood
>>> survey. The problem with this data set are location of the survey is often
>>> changing and the period is not really annually. For example: on January
>>> 2010 survey held in B location. On February 2010, there was another survey
>>> but it is in C location. Another time, survey held in D location. Next time
>>> the survey held, it could be in a totally different location.
>>>
>>> My plan is to make survey location as organisation unit and period of
>>> data set is monthly. My concern are:
>>>
>>>    - is it okay if in the future I keep adding new organisation unit
>>>    (in this case location)?
>>>    - because the location is not always surveyed every month it will
>>>    cause blank form in most of the months as I will input the data only on the
>>>    month they are being surveyed. will this cause any problem in the future?
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think? I am open to any suggestions.
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Karina
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Knut Staring
>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>> Norway: +4791880522
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>>
>
>


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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
Norway: +4791880522
Skype: knutstar
http://dhis2.org