Hi Ola and Lars,
Thank you guys for very much for working so hard to meet our requests. I have 
some observations and suggestions for you; I am not sure if they are covered in 
DHIS 2.13. I have just talked with Stephen about it and we are going to test it 
for Liberia.

My observation is on data visualizer. I see that we can use data element as 
filter but the indicator while taking period as category for the line graph. I 
think we need to be able to see the indicator graphs by organization unit or 
and group set. Other observation is that is it possible to give clearly 
different markers on the lines of graph in addition to the colors which is 
there now so that they can be distinguishable even when they are printed.

Thanks a million.
Bal Ram Bhui
Monrovia.



On Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:07 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]> 
wrote:
 
Hi, 
Agree with Lars. I would use orgunits to represent the departments/wards as it 
gives you more flexibility. It will require more customisation time to get all 
the orgunit names right in each hospital, but it is worth it, at least if you 
want to support data analysis and mangement at each hospital. 
Sometimes the hospital prefers to use local names on wards, like Cot ward A. 
Cot ward B, up/down etc and also have more than one physical ward/room for the 
same type/category.  A standard naming scheme through data element categories 
would be difficult to use in this case. 
Typically a hospital would like to do analysis by each physical ward (bed 
occupancy rates etc) and not always group them together by type of ward.
You can use orgunit groups to apply standard hospital departement names to all 
those wards,  which can then be used for aggregation when doing analysis above 
the hospital level or when comparing hospitals. 
Ola
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On 31 Oct 2013 09:32, "Lars Helge Øverland" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Marta,
>
>
>I don't know enough about the use-case to be sure. However my suggestion would 
>be to use the organisation units to represent the departments. It is simply 
>because usually the departments are different across hospitals - some are not 
>always there, some are combined and so on. So you could make a script that 
>creates the initial setup with all departments in all places and then modify 
>it from there. It makes form design easier. The data mart performance penalty 
>mentioned above applied at the time of writing but not anymore with the 
>analytics engine. A problem with using categories is that you get lots of 
>non-applicable fields if you use section forms, and lots of maintenance mess 
>if you go with custom forms.
>
>
>cheers
>
>
>Lars
> 
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