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["Raminosoa Rabemanantsoa, Tantely" <traminosoa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right! This is the quickest way.

Thank you Barnabas. I could work with this method.

Regards!

Tantely.



On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Barnabas Akumba <akumbabarns@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yes. That should be possible if you have access to the DB and you know the
> element ID, categoryoptioncombo and attributeoptioncombo of both the old
> and new DEs.
> The easiest work around for me would be to export the data to CSV and
> import into the new DE.
>
> Regards
>
> On Aug 7, 2017 7:03 PM, "Raminosoa Rabemanantsoa, Tantely" <
> traminosoa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Barnabas,
>
> Thank you for this straightforward workaround. Would it then possible via
> SQL view (or another way?) to transfer the existing data of the old DE to
> the new one? By doing so, we can also set the empty value to an hypothetic
> one, so that the new DE won't contain any null value.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tantely.
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Barnabas Akumba <akumbabarns@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Raminosoa,
>>
>> The issue is because the Data Element has already been used for data
>> entry and changing the property of the DE at this time will bring about
>> some violations.
>>
>> The solution is to create another DE with the compulsory attribute and
>> remove the previous one from the Dataset.
>> But you might need to trade with the data that was previously entered
>> using the DE.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2017 6:32 PM, "Raminosoa Rabemanantsoa, Tantely" <
>> traminosoa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Users,
>>
>> I would like to report the following issue when changing some data
>> elements to be compulsory for the data entry. This DE was already used for
>> a dataset. Please find attached 2 screenshots during the data compulsory
>> edition and the associated unsuccessful message. I am wondering if this is
>> due to the fact that there is already some existing empty values in the
>> data element, or is this issue linked with other consideration?
>>
>> I am using DHIS2 2.25.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tantely.
>>
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