Excellent. If its a small fix I wonder would it be easy to backport to 2.16? I can check. Then I can throw those xslt transforms away ...
On 6 January 2015 at 12:37, Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Olav, > > this was actually fixed in trunk and 2.17 two days ago. You can now use > the meta-data detailed export and make an export of the category combos > that you need to transfer (those used for the data elements in your data > sets). You then import that file first. It will contain all the relevant > category option combos for those category combos. > > regards, > > Lars > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Olav Poppe <olav.po...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm in a situation where I want to transfer data and metadata for one >> dataset from one DHIS instance to another. My initial idea was to use the >> <<Meta-Data Detailed Export>> from the source database, select the relevant >> dataset, and check <<include dependencies>>. This creates an XML-file with >> the dataset, data element, cateories, categorycombos etc as expected. >> However, after importing this metadata into the target database, I realised >> that it did not include the categoryoptioncombos (with IDs). In other >> words, even though I have the same data elements, categories, >> categorycombos etc in both databases, I'm not able to transfer data between >> the two since the data export relies on the categoryoptioncombo. >> >> One work-around is of course to use the <<regular>> meta-data export and >> selecting category option combos, but then it includes the metadata for ALL >> categorycombos, not just the three I'm interested in - so I will either >> have to edit the XML or delete the ones I don't need later. >> >> Am I missing a more obvious/simpler way of doing this? Is it by design or >> by oversight that the categoryoptioncombos are not included in the detailed >> export? (I realise the categoryoptioncombos are a bit <<special>> since they >> can be regenerated later etc) >> >> Olav >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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