If you have your source data in postgresql, you can also use the following
handy function to generate uids directly from the database:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION uid()
RETURNS text AS $$
SELECT substring('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
FROM (random()*51)::int +1 for 1) ||
array_to_string(ARRAY(SELECT
substring('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
FROM (random()*61)::int + 1 FOR 1)
FROM generate_series(1,10)), '')
$$ LANGUAGE sql;
for example:
select *,uid() from myorgunits;
Will list your table together with some newly minted uids.
On 25 May 2016 at 13:01, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Sergio,
> The easier way to do this is to generate the UID prior to importing
> everything. You can do this pretty easily with the system with the
> following command
>
> https://play.dhis2.org/demo/api/system/uid?limit=3
>
> Or they can be generated externally pretty easily. Here is some R code ,
> but I am sure there are ways to do this in other languages as well.
>
> generateUID<-function(codeSize=11){
> #Generate a random seed
> runif(1)
> allowedLetters<-c(LETTERS,letters)
> allowedChars<-c(LETTERS,letters,0:9)
> #First character must be a letter according to the DHIS2 spec
> firstChar<-sample(allowedLetters,1)
> otherChars<-sample(allowedChars,codeSize-1)
>
> uid<-paste(c(firstChar,paste(otherChars,sep="",collapse="")),sep="",collapse="")
> return(uid)}
>
> The last option is to post these level by level and get the UID which was
> generated for the orgunit. The tricky part may be to get the first parent
> ID, but once you have that, it should be pretty easy.
>
> From my experience however, generating these prior to importing them is
> much easier and will allow you to edit things for instance, in your GIS
> software and then import them into DHIS2.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Sergio Valenzuela <
> sergio.valenzu...@ehas.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Morten, yes, we were trying to create a new root and we were
>> missing that step.
>>
>> My question now is: In the "parent" object included in
>> "organisationUnits", is it possible to swap the attribute "id" to "name"
>> (or something you know when you are creating the parents)? Otherwise, how
>> can be done the import of a whole org unit hierarchy (in a single json)
>> when you don't know the "id" of the "parents"?
>>
>> I attached an image pointing the part of the json I'm talking about.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Sergio Valenzuela*
>> Fundación EHAS
>> Telemedicina para países en desarrollo -* www.ehas.org
>> <http://www.ehas.org/>*
>> E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación A.101-9L. Ciudad Universitaria 30, 28040
>> Madrid - España
>> Tlfno. (+34) 91 488 87 41: (+34) 687 67 17 62
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-05-25 13:13 GMT+02:00 Morten Olav Hansen <mor...@dhis2.org>:
>>
>>> Hi Sergio
>>>
>>> So you are creating a new root? Could it be that your user is attached
>>> to a different org unit, and so the problem is that you can't see them?
>>>
>>> Maybe you could verify in the database, or using the web-api?
>>> /api/organisationUnits.json?filter=name:like:abc
>>>
>>> --
>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>> University of Oslo
>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Sergio Valenzuela <
>>> sergio.valenzu...@ehas.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello devs,
>>>>
>>>> We are trying to create a whole org unit hierarchy through the new API
>>>> resource /api/23/metadata .
>>>> During the process, we realized there should be some kind of problem
>>>> when we tried to create the parent org unit (the parent of the whole
>>>> hierarchy), because even If the answer from the server is 200 OK once we
>>>> sent the POST and with a GET we can verify that the org units are created
>>>> successfully, no org units are appearing on Maintenance App. We are using
>>>> the same version and build as in demo server (version 2.23 and build
>>>> 22969).
>>>> We tried the same in demo server with the same result.
>>>>
>>>> I attached our JSON and the url we were doing the POST request:
>>>>
>>>> - https://play.dhis2.org/demo/api/23/metadata
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.dhis2.org%2Fdemo%2Fapi%2F23%2Fmetadata&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFEcEvpUIBy7DQX7KNTUvGRw7nObw>
>>>>
>>>> Besides, we tried to create the parent org unit of the whole hierarchy
>>>> through the Maintenance interface with the same result. Apparently, it is
>>>> created but not shown after on Maintenance App. (We made a GET to
>>>> http://localhost:8080/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true
>>>> and we verified that the org unit was created)
>>>>
>>>> Tell me If I'm doing something wrong here or If this issue was already
>>>> reported.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards!
>>>>
>>>> *Sergio Valenzuela*
>>>> Fundación EHAS
>>>> Telemedicina para países en desarrollo -* www.ehas.org
>>>> <http://www.ehas.org/>*
>>>> E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación A.101-9L. Ciudad Universitaria 30, 28040
>>>> Madrid - España
>>>> Tlfno. (+34) 91 488 87 41: (+34) 687 67 17 62
>>>>
>>>>
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