Hi, agree with Jason. On an additional note, if the meta-data (data elements in particular) actually are consistent across several instances it might be a good effort to standardize the UID, will be useful if you want to do comparative analysis across countries at a later stage.
Lars On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Jason Pickering < [email protected]> wrote: > I would think the best way to go about this would be to have a common > meta-data repository. It would seem to be quite a bit of effort to try and > map metadata definitions between different instances, but the usual > approach here would be to have a "master" instance, which other "slave" > instances would draw their metadata from. In this case, the exchange of > pivots/reports would be possible, but very troublesome otherwise. > > It is certainly possible, but building the transformation would be one > more piece to maintain and would be quite fragile, as changes on either > side would break it. > > Best regards, > Jason > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Laura E. Lincks < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We have individual DHIS instances installed for individual countries. >> Many configuration needs are similar across countries including the set up >> of many reports. Is it possible to take a pivot table definition set up in >> one country and export that definition to another country's DHIS instance? >> I see that details can be exported for a pivot table using Meta-Data Export >> but it of course contains unique identifiers for that country which will >> not apply in another country's instance. Is there a way to query the data >> from the backend, create an output script, changing the unique IDs to the >> new country's respective IDs and then insert the data in the new country's >> database? It may be more trouble doing it that way than simply manually >> creating the pivot table structures in the new country, but I thought I'd >> ask if anyone has had success doing it in a more automated fashion. >> >> -- >> >> *Laura E. Lincks* >> Database Developer >> ICAP - Columbia University >> Mailman School of Public Health >> 60 Haven Ave, Floor B1 >> New York, NY 10032 >> Tel: 212 304 7132 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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