Sounds useful. Please create a jira issue. Knut
On Jun 7, 2017 4:11 PM, "Petar Jovanovic" <pe...@essi.upc.edu> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We have in our DHIS2 instance data elements belonging to different > programs/data sets, but also to different domains (packages) or diseases we > are dealing with. Also, some of them are common across different diseases > and domains. > > So far, in order to easy the search for specific data elements in the > maintenance app, we were including additional codes (like tags) inside the > names of these data elements. The problem arose when we used analytic apps > and these long codified names started showing very ugly in the charts and > tables. We found a way to enforce using short names instead of names, > although there are some bugs preventing this in event-based analytics apps > and we reported it. > > Anyhow, we feel that names of data elements should be something human > readable and without specific codifications and tags. Thus we first planned > to move these codified names to data element codes instead, but, currently > there is no possibility to search data elements by their code in the > maintenance app. > > We've seen that in 2.27 the search of data elements improved and gives > more options, but not searching by code unfortunately. > > We think that it could be very useful and user friendly if we are able to > search of data elements using specific tags (disease, package, common...) > codified inside the code attribute of data elements, so we would like to > raise the question of possibility of including such functionality in DHIS2. > > > Thank you! > > > Best, > Petar > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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