Hi Maria,

My understanding is that for programs all yes/no (Boolean values) should be 
converted to 1 or 0 when program indicators are evaluated and analytics tables 
are generated (see my exchange with Lars below, which was back in 2016).  So if 
this isn’t happening for an Event Capture or Tracker program, then it’s quite 
possibly a bug…  But when you say ‘indicators’, do you mean ‘Indicator’ or 
‘Program Indicator’?  Are these yes/no data elements in a program or a Data Set?


From: Lars Helge Øverland <l...@dhis2.org>
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 at 12:20

Hi Sam,

Yes, it is expected, and will be continued.

To elaborate: In the trackedentity datavalue table we store boolean values as 
true | false. We convert this to 0 | 1 when we generate the analytics tables to 
make it more suited for aggregation (as you point out above).

Re the event capture bug - please report with a bit more context and we will 
try to fix - it is strange that it shows up as 0.

best regards,

Lars

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Sam Johnson 
<samuel.john...@qebo.co.uk<mailto:samuel.john...@qebo.co.uk>> wrote:

Hi Devs,

I’ve been working on some quite complex program indicators, and before I commit 
them to production, I would be very grateful if you could confirm how Yes and 
No are supposed to be handled in program indicator expressions.

I’ve noticed that within the program indicators, they currently resolve as 
Yes=1, No=0 and non-response=null.  So for example:
· Putting the data element ‘YesNoDE’ itself into an Event Report displays: Yes
· Creating an indicator containing #{YesNoDE} displays: 1
· You can do complex indicators involving the Yes/No data element, eg an index 
calculation:
        1.2345 + #{YesNoDE_A}*2.3456+#{YesNoDE_B}*0.7654.
· You can even put these complex calculations within a d2:condition, eg to test 
thresholds:
        d2:condition('1.2345 + #{YesNoDEa}*2.3456+#{YesNoDEb}*0.7654>3.1',1,0)

This is all excellent, as it enables us to do all sorts of powerful 
calculations/conditions with Yes/No responses interpreted as 1 or 0.  :-)

So my question: is this expected behaviour, and will it remain consistent in 
future versions of DHIS2?  I’ve noticed, for example, that there are some 
rendering bugs in Event Capture, where ‘No’ appears as ‘0’ etc – is there any 
chance that the handling above will be broken when those bugs are fixed, or 
will I be able to continue to rely on it?




From: Dhis2-users 
<dhis2-users-bounces+samuel.johnson=qebo.co...@lists.launchpad.net> on behalf 
of "Guerra-Arias, Maria" <maria.guerra-ar...@ppfa.org>
Date: Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 10:25
To: DHIS2 Users List <dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net>
Subject: [Dhis2-users] Counting Yes Values

Hi all,

I have a series of data elements of value type Yes/No (aggregation type is set 
to Sum). I want to have an indicator which gives me the total number of Yes 
values, so I tried defining it as a sum of the data elements, hoping that the 
Yes(es) would be stored as 1s and the Noes as 0s and I would be able to get a 
numerical total of Yes(es). Unfortunately this does not work :(

Is there a way to make the indicator that I want?

Many thanks!


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