What happened?
I removed an encounter from a Marked Individual (CH00153). This individual didn’t have any other encounters assigned to it. When I tried to add the same encounter to what should be a new ID (for the system) - CH00153, I got an error message. If I try to add it to the same ID (CH00153) under “Existing Individual ID”, I can’t because it’s not in the list.
What did you expect to happen?
I expected to be able to add it to the ID CH00153.
Hello! When you remove the last Encounter from a MarkedIndividual, the individual is deleted to prevent 0-Encounter individuals from remaining forever in the database and inflating searches. You can just re-renter the old ID in the “Set new individual ID” field to re-create the individual and re-add the first Encounter.
Hi @jason - I thought I did exactly that: “Set new individual ID” on the now un-assigned encounter, using the same ID that it had previously CH00153. That’s when I got the error. What am I missing?
Can you please send a screen capture of what you saw?
Based on your description:
If I try to add it to the same ID (CH00153) under “Existing Individual ID”
You should get an error, because the individual you removed the Encounter from was deleted since it was the last and only Encounter of the Individual. You shouldn’t be able to add the Encounter to the same ID via Existing Individual ID. You would need to enter CH00153 into “Set new individual ID”.
But first I tried to add it as a new ID “When I tried to add the same encounter to what should be a new ID (for the system) - CH00153, I got an error message”
That’s interesting! Weird that it was able to be associated with 2 different ID’s upon upload - why would it allow it on upload but not after? This was one of the data integrity issues I was trying to walk the researcher through so she could resolve it. I guess it’s resolved now.
