Greetings. I am busy trying to implement concept mapping of categories and groupsets in dhis and looking for some input from our wide and varied experience. The reason being that I want to assemble some pre-defined core concepts to make it easier for users to start (re)configuring a system.
For example, one concept which is essential is the UNCLASSIFIED concept. When an existing database is loaded then obviously none of the existing categories or categoryoptions will be classified. And all constraints must be relaxed on these, meaning that any unclassified categoryoption may be used in any unclassified category. (Abyot this should make you happy - if you choose not to classify anything then you are effectively back to your free-for-all situation). But there are three significant advantages in classifying these things, eg flagging age related categories and categoryoptions with the AGE_GROUP concept. (i) user interface simplification. when picking categoryoptions to assign to a category tagged as AGE_GROUP, ui should only present AGE_GROUP categoryoptions (ii) pivot table reports - by using the concept as column name rather than the category name(s) we can group all the under 5's, regardless of the category which collected this information. (Also we can specify 'safe' column names). (iii) we can explicitly specify dimensions of data for import/export purposes So implementoers will be encouraged to set about classifying their existing categories, categoryoptions and groupsets. I want to provide a set of built in concepts to make the process a bit easier. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list. The user can always add concepts, but these are meant to be a pre-primed 'starter-pack'. I can think of a few obvious ones I have come across, like: AGE_GROUP SEX (or GENDER?) DISEASE PREGNANCY_STATUS STOCK LOCATION (this one is a bit wide covering things like in-patient, out-patient, in community etc. better suggestions welcome) OWNERSHIP FACILITY_TYPE Note the last two are more commonly associated with orgunit groupsets than categories. Can I ask people to look at the dimension headers of pivot tables they might have, review the list I have above and send me suggestions for additional concepts which occur frequently? Thankss Bob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
