Re: [Dhis2-users] Possibility of creating non numerical UID prefixes in tracker capture

Hi Aimee, Isaiah is right re the UID format and you can find the docs here: https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/developer/html/webapi_system_resource.html#d0e11354 Note that the number of possible UID combinations are 5.2 x 10^19, or about 50 million trillion, so I would perhaps rather focus on gen

Re: [Dhis2-users] Possibility of creating non numerical UID prefixes in tracker capture

Hi Aimee, What is the length of the UIDs? The dhis2 accepts UID length of 11 and can accept any other types (letters and numbers) so long as the first one is a letter. If you want to avoid duplication of UID, the easiest way is by generating them yourself using other tools or languages. See the f

[Dhis2-users] Possibility of creating non numerical UID prefixes in tracker capture

Greetings all, In Zambia we are investigating the possibility of having sub instances of tracker capture that feed into a main instance, but we want to avoid the issue of duplicate UIDs coming from the sub instances. We were hoping to add a prefix onto the automatic UID generation - such as NG#