Second approach sounds most painless to me. A 3rd approach (shooting from the hip) is to create a postgres trigger function to generate codes on insert.
On 24 November 2015 at 15:27, Carl Leitner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > We are looking at using DHIS2 to manage facilities for a Facility Registry > in Sierra Leone. One of the requirements is that they have a facility code > that combines: > > an sub-code to indicate the region the facility is in > an incremental counter of the region > > These codes don’t need to be immediately available. On a routine basis (e.g. > nightly) the facility list will be sent to the InterLinked Registry / > OpenInfoMan for wider sharing for example with mHero. > > I don’t think that there is anything to automatically generate codes codes > for facilities in DHIS2 using rules like the above. I am looking for some > suggestions. A couple of (half-baked) ideas include: > > create a DHIS2 Web App to create new facilities with the logic implemented > above > create a script that runs on a cron job that will look for any facilities > without a code and modify their records to add the code based on the rules > above > > I think the second possibilities would be the simplest to implement. > > > Cheers, > -carl > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
