Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-20 Thread Knut Staring
Out of curiosity, where are you working, Dave? Knut On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Dave Trombley wrote: > > >   Ah, thanks for the informative replies!   One of the problems I was having > was that I was using the latest snapshot compiled from bzr and not the > latest release, and the data ele

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Murod Latifov
I didn't understand why we have concept? What concept does in this relation? On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Jason Pickering < jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry. Early morning typo.. :O > > My point was that it is not "required" to have multi-dimensional data > elements, although in so

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Jason Pickering
Sorry. Early morning typo.. :O My point was that it is not "required" to have multi-dimensional data elements, although in some cases it does many a lot of sense to use them. *Perhaps obviously, it it also possible to use the "default" category as well. This essentially means that you have no c

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Jason Pickering
Perhaps obviously it it also possible not to use the "default" category as well. This essentially means that you have no categories and would need to create separate data elements for each level of disaggregation Data element 1) Number of patients testing positive for disease X in phase A Data el

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Dave Trombley
Ah, thanks for the informative replies! One of the problems I was having was that I was using the latest snapshot compiled from bzr and not the latest release, and the data element edit screen is completely different! Is there a way to do this currently in the current dev. branch? (We've alrea

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Ola Hodne Titlestad
If some of you are reading an old version of the manual I recommend updating it. http://dhis2.org/documentation now links to the most recent build of the manual, both in pdf and html. Ola --- -- Ola Hodne Titlestad (Mr) HISP Department of Informatics Universi

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Ola Hodne Titlestad
Dave, I recommend reading the following parts of the user manual: - chapter 4 on Data Elements - chapter 5 on Data Sets and Forms - chapter 19 - Data Dimensions in DHIS 2, especially sections 19.2 The data element dimension, and section 19.8 "From paper forms to multidimensional data sets - lesso

Re: [Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi Dave, Welcome! Its is a bit confusing to me as well. Let me try and explain as best as I can. Others that understand the model may correct me. You need to create a "Concept". In this case, it would probably "Phase" as well. You need to create categories. In your case this would be a "Phase"

[Dhis2-users] Assigning a category / category combo to a data element.

2011-02-18 Thread Dave Trombley
Hi all! I'm new to DHIS2, and going through the process of migrating a paper HMIS to a DHIS2 data schema. I have a tabular data structure where I can identify the data elements, and the categories/dimensions of those elements. Data elements are such as "Number of patients testing po