This sounds like what Lars was saying about importing "blank" values.
On 29 March 2016 at 09:38, Gijsbert Ooms <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a little update on this (we were having the same issue). > > > > It is true that overwriting with ‘0’ works only if zeroIsSignificant is > set to true. What we found to be most working, was to overwrite with > nothing (just “” in the csv). This works regardless of the > zeroIsSignificant-attribute. In your csv’s you can just remove all zeroes > in the “value”-column – that is, if you don’t care for zeroes, obviously. > > > > Cordialement, > > > > *GIJSBERT OOMS* > ATI Système d’information et gestion de bases de données > Programme d’Appui au Secteur de la Santé (PASS SOUROU) > > CTB BÉNIN > Bureau PASS-BEC > MINISTERE DE LA SANTE > 02 BP 8118 COTONOU > T (+229) 611 999 63 > WWW.BTCCTB.ORG <http://www.btcctb.org/> > WWW.CTB-BENIN.ORG <http://www.ctb-benin.org/> > > *Save paper! Think before you print* > > > > *Van:* Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+gijsbert.ooms= > [email protected]] *Namens *uwe wahser > *Verzonden:* donderdag 10 december 2015 23:06 > *Aan:* Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> > *CC:* dhis2-users <[email protected]> > *Onderwerp:* Re: [Dhis2-users] API: Mass-deleting data values > > > > I followed the approch of overwriting all obsolete values with '0', which > is just as fast as any other update. This works of course only, if I set > zeroIsSigificant to true before overwriting and back to false before > eliminating '0' values - in theory. In praxi, I am able to start the > elimination process in the maintenance app and get a success message, but > the '0' value-records still remain in the dataValues table. > > Is there an issue with setting the zeroIsSigificant flag after data were > entered for that dataElement? > > By the way: from my experince, bulk deletion by accident is way less > dangerous than randomly changing single values as you can see immediately > that something went wrong :-D (and are able to restore the backup). If you > have processes changing only single values accidentially, you might find > this out only after months - and that's much harder to correct. It might be > worthwhile to rethink this security feature. > > Regards, > > Uwe > > > Am 02.12.2015 um 20:12 schrieb Lars Helge Øverland: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Uwe Wahser <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's cheating :-D > > > > > > True > > > > What do you think of the option of just updating all the obsolete values > to 0 and have them eliminated by DHIS2 (I assume that 0-Values are being > eliminated unless I block this in the settings)? > > > > It is a valid approach to generate a data value set filled with blank > values and import it. This will effectively remove the data values. > > > > regards, > > > > Lars > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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