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
already switched our proof-of-concept to the current release version, so
this is making a lot more sense now following your advice and the user
manual, which was confusing us in relation to the snapshot!)
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad ol...@ifi.uio.nowrote:
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 - lessons learned
Just to add to what Jason wrote:
Category combinations are linked to individual data elements, not data sets
or sections.
If your forms consists of multiple tables (with or without different column
headings) you can split a data set into multiple sections with _1_ category
combination (and a subset of the dataset's data elements - all sharing the
same category combo) for each section. Then your section form design will
automatically reflect the tables/sections in your paper form (given that the
category options are on columns and data elements on rows).
If you need to design an electronic form that e.g. has data elements on
columns and category options on rows or combining multiple category
combinations on columns in the same table you need to go for custom forms.
Although the category combinations simplifies how you design forms I
recommend thinking about how the data will be used in analysis and
presentation after the data has been collected, e.g. how aggregation will
take place, and let that guide how you design data elements and categories,
and not let the data entry form structure control that. The total and
subtotal of data elements are used in many data analysis components (such as
validation rules, indicators, reports, pivot tables) and it is definitely an
advantage if the total of the data element's category options add up to
something meaningful and is not just picked to mimic column headings in a
form. Many more thoughts and examples on this in section 19.8 in the
manual.
We also have some very fresh material on this topic from a recent workshop,
which you can find here (look under Tuesday and the session called Design
of data elements and data sets):
http://www.hisp.uio.no/events/201102-impl-workshop/programme2.html
Ola
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On 18 February 2011 18:02, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.comwrote:
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.
You need to create category options, Phase A and Phase B for the
category Phase.
You need a Data element category combination as well. In your case,
it would be Phases perhaps. If the data elements is further
disaggregated by categories Age and Gender you could add these
categories as well.
Finally , you need a data element Number of patients testing positive
for disease X assigned tp Combination of categories
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jason
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Dave Trombley dave.tromb...@gmail.com
wrote:
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 positive for disease X and categories are
such
as in phase A, in Phase B, etc.
I'd like the data entry form to show up with different cells to
enter
Number of patients testing positive (in phase A) and Number of
patients
testing positive (in phase B), as it seems they should if the
categories
are defined. However, I'm having trouble making this happen.
The documentation at several points makes references to assigning
a
category to a data element but I cannot find any place where it
described
how this is done, nor can I seem to make it happen after playing with
the
interface for about an hour. This is all very confusing, and I'm hoping
someone can explain how it works?
Do I need to create
