This may be yet another good reason to try and move away from custom forms. I think most of your forms could work well as custom forms.
Knut On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Muhire Andrew wrote: > > Dear jason, > i have custom forms! > > ------------------------------On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 11:54 AM PST Jason > Pickering wrote:>Seems like a good idea. Do you have section forms or > custom forms?>>>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Muhire Andrew < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:>>>> Hi to all,>> i would > like to run integrity check to see the data element that are in dataset > that are not linked to the form. Is this possible? Not data element without > dataset ( data element in dataset that is not linked to the form). Because > this affects data completeness report(based on data values) where by the > target column counts all linked and nonlinked data elements which can > confuse users. Per now i just use a manual > checking.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>------------------------------On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 > 2:06 AM PST Ola Hodne Titlestad wrote:>I would suggest to capture service > availability and stock-outs as separate>data elements or even orgunit > groups for services, and not as some>interpretation of a 0. Then there is no > need to capture zeros.>Once the data is aggregated up one level all this > zero/blank interpretation>is impossible anyway. The complete button also > gives an indication of>wheter data is missing of not.>Ola>On Jan 11, 2012 > 9:45 AM, "Knut Staring" <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:> Here in > India, the activities of Subcenters differ quite a bit in the> particular > services they offer. Therefore, since all use a standard format,> there > will almost always be a number of fields that are not applicable.> Because > of this, they maintain that 0 is signficant, because it means "Have> the > service, but no cases this month", whereas a blank field means "Don't> have > the service" in other words N/A.>>>> Sometimes it can even mean something > in-between, like "We normally> distribute Iron tablets, but sometimes we > don't have them (blank), and> sometimes we have them but there is no demand > (0)". In my view the latter> semantics is quite complicated, and hard to > get consistent, but > I'm being> told the health workers handle it well. Thus, a typical report > can consist> of 50 positive integers, 7 blanks and 20 zeros.> Since data > entry on the mobile is quite cumbersome and zeros also tend to> fill up the > database, I would have preferred zeros to be non-significant> and just go > with blanks. But then we would lose the above distinction.> Knut>> --> Knut > Staring> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo> +4791880522> > http://dhis2.org>> _______________________________________________> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs> Post to : > [email protected] <javascript:;>> Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs> More help > :>> > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>>>>> > _______________________________________________>> Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users>> Post to : > [email protected] <javascript:;>>> Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users>> More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : [email protected] <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522 http://dhis2.org
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