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[Terence Scott <terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Morten

Thank you for the help! I will try these and see whether I can get it to
work!

Kind regards,
Terence

Terence Scott

Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC)
Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) Steering Committee
terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://paracon.rabiesalliance.org
Skype: tpscott1987




On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Sending in event IDs is not required, but its definitely recommended if
> you want do repeated imports (good to have a unique id connected to your
> event so that you don't end up with duplicates)
>
> We offer a few options to generate UIDs:
>
> 1) Using the web-api /api/system/id (you can add limit=X to adjust how
> many you need)
> 2) Install the dhis2 cli (npm -g install dhis2-cli) and then just do
> "dhis2 uid", or "dhis2 uid -h" to get more help
> 3) if you are nodejs directly you can also use the dhis2-uid lib for
> generating uids (npm --save install dhis2-uid)
>
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/dhis2-cli
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/dhis2-uid
>
> --
> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Terence Scott <
> terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> We have collected animal vaccination data (including GPS coordinates,
>> time, date, species etc.) in a custom developed program and have a CSV
>> output for this program. We are looking to try to import the data from the
>> custom-built programme into our DHIS2 instance via Event import. I have
>> gotten the import to work on Event export files that I have edited with new
>> animal data (e.g. by changing the species) and this works, as it simply
>> updates the old event (based on the event ID). However, we would like to
>> import these data as new events as opposed to simply replacing existing
>> events currently on the system.
>>
>> Therefore, I would like to please find out as to whether it is possible
>> to do one of the following:
>>
>> 1) Do an event import without an Event ID (i.e. register a new event on
>> the DHIS2 instance via Event import)
>>     - I have looked through the documentation but am unable to find out
>> whether            this is possible
>>     - In the Developer Docs, it seems to mention that import using XML
>> does not            require an Event ID, but I have not managed to
>> determine whether I am                  misinterpreting this or whether I
>> simply do not know how to do it.
>>
>> 2) Generate our own Event IDs in our custom-built programme that will be
>> recognised by the DHIS2 instance.
>>     - Is there some way by which the Event IDs could be automatically
>> generated          outside of the DHIS2 instance (in our programme) so that
>> new events can be          imported into the instance?
>>
>> Please let me know if you need any further clarification. I would really
>> appreciate any help that you could provide!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Terence
>>
>>
>> Terence Scott
>>
>> Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC)
>> Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) Steering Committee
>> terence.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> https://paracon.rabiesalliance.org
>> Skype: tpscott1987
>>
>>
>>
>>
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