Hi Maheed, Have you considered using attribute category options for your projects? If this works for you, you could consider the following with current DHIS 2 features:
- enter any data that applies to a project by selecting the project. - enter goals/target as separate data elements, selecting the same project. - use data element groups and/or indicator groups for different types of reporting needs, e.g. an indicator group for % complete for indicators that divide data by target. In analysis, such as pivot table or visualization, select the project(s) and indicator(s), and report over a sufficient number of years to capture all the data for any of your projects. This assumes that you can enter data on a per-project basis. Or does the data need to be entered regardless of project, and then you impose the concept of project by goals that apply during a time period? Cheers, Jim On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Maheed Ramadan <maheed.rama...@nrc.no> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > > > Regarding point 1, you’re right. What I meant is that currently the actual > and target data elements are not related in a way or another. So what is > missing is some way to link them. > > > > I am also with you that the target value could be either date bound and > space bound. But I was just looking at it from a simple case/perspective. > > > > Maybe your point to define target values for indicators is logical. But if > this is done so that we can select a target data element for an indicator, > I don’t know how simple it is to implement technically as both indicators > and target data elements are subject to time and space. > > > > At the end, I think what is mostly needed is to show/compare the actual & > target values next to each other easily in pivot tables and/or reports. > > > > Thanks for your feedback. Looking forward to other people’s comments. > > > > > > Maheed > > > > > > > > *From:* Bob Jolliffe [mailto:bobjolli...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2014 11:59 AM > *To:* Maheed Ramadan > *Cc:* DHIS 2 Developers list; dhis2-users > *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-devs] Requirement related to indicators - Target vs > achieved > > > > Hi Maheed > > > > I am sure you will get much more informed feedback on this question > because I think its something many folk grapple with. Just a quick > observation regarding implementation. > > > > > > I don’t know if anybody have similar issues or requirements like this one. > > I think 2 thinks are missing here: > > 1- Cannot define the target value for a data element within the data > element itself. It should be defined using another data element > > 2- The target value are not time-bound. This means we cannot set > that the target value should be reached starting date X and ending date Y. > > These two seem to be contradictory. Associating a target value with a > data element sounds sensible enough except that it would then lose the > sense of target time. So you need to use another dataelement. ( I am not > sure whether that is in fact what you are saying with 1 or you are pointing > out what is missing). Note the same time boundedness can also be true of > space. It is possible that different countries, provinces, districts set > different target values. > > > > Do you think it makes more sense to focus on target values for indicators > than dataelements? (Oddly enough I imagine the measured value should be an > indicator and the target value should be a dataelement because you'd want > to enter these targets directly). > > > > So maybe what is missing is the ability to assign a target dataelement to > an indicator definition. So an indicator can have (an optional) > dataelement associated with it for its target values. Of course you can do > this "manually" but, as you say, the reports become laborious. Having an > explicit association might make it easier to design smart reports. > > > > Look forward to hear what other people's experience is. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-d...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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