Dear Jason, Thanks for the confirmation. Based on our discussions few minutes ago; the M&Es think this will help them to show the performances of their programs. For example: In a particular facility A; during the months Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May; the cases of measles are 5, 8, 9, 0, 10... In our data collection, Apr will be seeing as no entry ( which means we can’t identify whether it is zero measle case or no entry was done.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 10:34, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gerald, > No, they will not appear unless people re-enter the data. When this > setting is used, what happens on the client side, is that even if people > enter a zero, it will never get transmitted to the server. In most cases, > having zeros simply leads to massive numbers of zeros stored in the > database, which are not important when things get aggregated. Users are > often not consistent about entering zeros, and trying to divine what the > user's intent was, can be exceedingly difficult. This is the reason that > the "Complete" button was implemented. With proper training and messaging, > this can be used to indicate that the report it complete, and that > everything which is blank, should be able to be assumed to be zero. Often > people want to try and use a zero to indicate that a particular service is > offered, but that there were simply no clients for that reporting period. > The problem of course is whether the data entry staff understand this. I am > not sure what the need for zeroes actually is in your case, but you may > want to consider to use the completion information instead, if possible. We > have seen numerous cases were more than 60% of the values stored in a DHIS2 > database are zeros. This leads to slower performance of analytics, as well > as inflation of backup sizes, so I hope if you do change this, to think > carefully about whether you really, really need all those zeros! > > Best regards, > Jason > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 5:03 AM gerald thomas <gerald17...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Barnabas, >> Thanks for your help. >> The issue now is that we had been ignoring it all this time. Now, we want >> to consider it again which means we will have to enable them as a batch by >> API method but I am inquiring if the previous missing zeros will appear. >> >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:50 AM Barnabas Akumba <akumbaba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Gerald, >>> >>> Storing of zeros in the DHIS2 is configured during the Data Element >>> Creation stage. There is an option where you need to enable the Data >>> Element to store zero values (see attached screen shot). >>> [image: image.png] >>> Once that is done for all the Data Elements, then the Form will be able >>> to store Zero values. >>> Regards >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:42 AM gerald thomas <gerald17...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> We are looking at the WHO tool and there was a concern about the zeros >>>> which are not storing in the PostgreSQL database. >>>> Please is there any solution for these zeros not storing? >>>> Is there another way for the WHO tool to differentiate between an >>>> actual blank space and Zeros? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance for your contribution. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Gerald >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Barnabas AKUMBA >>> >>> *Mobile:* +2348036195778 >>> *Skype:* barnabas.akumba >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Gerald >> > _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > >> > > -- > Jason P. Pickering > email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com > tel:+46764147049 > -- Regards, Gerald
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