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Re: Program Indicator calculations, Converting Dates in Months or Years

 

Hi Andrew, thanks that looks good.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Muhire Andrew <muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks Lars,
>
> I came to find an expression in indicators that does this in tracker:
>
> like 40 - d2:weeksBetween(mother visit LMP, Current date)
>
> *The above gives the count down of the weeks remaining for the mother to
> deliver since the delivery has approximately 40 weeks.*
>
> Another expression was to display the age of the child for each visit to
> guide the nutritionist:
>
> d2:monthsBetween(Child Birth date, current date)
>
> *The above gives the current months based on the date of visit.*
>
>
>
> On Friday, November 4, 2016 1:52 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> how are you doing? First of all, would you mind asking this on the dev
> list? There are more people who can help you there.
>
> Also it would be good if you could elaborate a bit about what you need to
> do regarding date conversion. Is the problem that you are asking
> beneficiaries about their age in months, and that you later would like to
> do aggregation based on months/quarters in dhis analytics apps?
>
> best regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Muhire Andrew <muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> We are developing the case based nutrition system [Using DHIS2] that is
> targeting to track Pregnant Women, Lactating and Children under 2years.What
> we are tracking is Attributes and tracker variables like Date of Birth,
> hight, weight, LMP Date and We would like to Display on our program
> dashboard the indicators like BMI, Height for Age, Weight for Age and also
> expected deliveries using the LMP dates which is our data element that is
> set to date type.
>
> Is there anyone who knows how to convert the dates into Months or years
> without use of coding, i mean during the calculation of Program indicators?
> . We also need users to enter the date of Birth of a Baby or Mother and the
> system popup the Age in months or Years.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Lars Helge Øverland
> Lead developer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> Skype: larshelgeoverland
> lars@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
Skype: larshelgeoverland
lars@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>

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