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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

As both Prosper and Jason have confirmed, currently you have to use
separate data elements or attributes. This might be inconvenient, in
particular where the list of e.g. symptoms are long.

I can see two scenarios here:

1.
There might not be much demand for analysing this type of data at all -
might be mainly descriptive data for use by e.g. clinicians (one could
argue that counting symptoms occurrences across many diseases don't provide
much of value, at least not on a regular reporting basis). The data element
or attribute are then basically a free text field but with such "free" text
either limited only to an option set or an option set + free text.
2.
alternatively, you could do aggregated analysis by executing a count of all
cases where symptoms LIKE '%Headache%' (or any combination of such symptom
"tags") - again not currently supported I think but not complicated either.

I think we need more specific requirements and requirement scenarios here,
to determine the design of such enhancements.

Regards
calle

On 28 September 2016 at 14:00, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The reason is has to be separate data elements is because of analytics. If
> you have a single data element with multiple choices, there is currently
> not a way to aggregate all of these. So lets say you have a question like
>
> What symptoms does the patient have?
> a) Headache
> b) Fever
> c) Fatigue
>
> If there was some sort of UI component like you are talking about with a
> single data element, we would need to record something like
> Headache; Fever; Fatigue
> in a single row in the database. When we aggregate it, well, it would not
> be really clear how we would do this. We would need to parse out all of the
> options and then somehow transform them into
>
> Headache = 2
> Fever = 4
> Fatigue = 5
>
> The of course you have more complicated situations like patients who have
> both Fever and Fatigue.
>
> So, the way it has to be implemented now in DHIS2, is through a boolean
> data element.
>
> Does the patient have a headache?
> Does the patient have a fever?
> Does the patient have fatigue?
>
> Aggregation becomes just a matter of counting how many of these are true.
>
> So, you could implement some sort of custom control do to this, but in the
> end, you would need completely separate data elements, but maybe this was
> not really your question, since you were asking about a UI component?
>
> Currently, its not there, but has been asked for several times.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Prosper BT <ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear Paul,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing this, its some blue print being discussed not yet
>> implemented, we hope it can come soon especially for IDSR - symptoms. The
>> work around right now is to design all the different options are either
>> attributes or data elements depending on where they are going to be used
>> with data type Yes Only
>>
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> ​Or if you are using a custom form, you can implement it your way
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ​
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Arun Paul <paul.arun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am configuring a program using Tracker Capture. It requires data input
>>> using a multi-select dropdown or multi-select checkbox. Example for such a
>>> field is "Symptoms" or "Drugs given for treatment". For these fields, I
>>> need to select more than one option as answers.
>>>
>>> Is this UI component already supported?
>>>
>>> Else, how can I support this through some work around or
>>> code-customization ?
>>>
>>> Please let me know.
>>>
>>> ​Thanks in advance
>>> ,
>>> - Arun Paul
>>>
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