Hey everyone Vincent has been consulting in Afghanistan and has had to design data entry forms to support the Islamic calendar. I don't know much about this standard but I guess it could be relevant to this discussion...
Greg Sent from my mobile -----Original Message----- From: Johan Sæbø <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:40:37 To: Jason Pickering<[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] flexible start-of-week? Jason, yes, I think it is a blueprint to define periods through the user interface. In this particular case, we work around it by using standard ISO-weeks to approximate the caribbean sunday-saturday 4-weekly reporting. But the monday-sunday is not so standard as it appears. A lot of middle eastern countries have saturday as first day of the week, and a lot of countries in the Americas have sunday (like the caribbean). Then there are also other rules for numbering weeks. Luckily, months and years are a bit more standardized. Has anyone else encountered this requirement? Johan On 27.04.2012 06:35, Jason Pickering wrote: > Hi Johan, > > I think this would be something the developers would need to do, > although it is not too difficult to implement. Source is available > here > > \dhis-2\dhis-api\src\main\java\org\hisp\dhis\period > > And by the four weeks period, you mean something which starts on a > Sunday, not on a Monday? > > It sounds like this is really a bigger blueprint, namely the ability > to dynamically define period types somehow through the user interface. > > Regards, > Jason > > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Johan Sæbø<[email protected]> wrote: >> And how would I go about to create these custom periods? While at it, I >> would actually like to create four-week periods, starting with a sunday. >> Right now four-weekly reporting can be done by selecting week 1, 5, 9 etc >> when using weekly intervals, but it would be better with four-weeks "1-4", >> "5-8" etc. >> >> Regards, >> Johan >> >> >> On 16.04.2012 17:05, Jason Pickering wrote: >>> >>> AFAIK, in DHIS2, weeks are ISO weeks, meaning they start on the first >>> Monday of the year which contains a Thursday. I am sure Bob can >>> provide much more info on the ISO8601 standard. >>> It would seem you would need a custom period in this case, similar to >>> what has been done with the Fiscal years. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jason >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Johan Sæbø<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I can't find any place to indicate which day a week starts, is this >>>> possible >>>> somewhere? For reporting purposes, Sunday is the first day of the week in >>>> the caribbean. >>>> >>>> Johan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
