Default Codes Missing off Data Elements with no National Codes

[AngelaFaulding]

There is an issue with Data Elements that are linked to attributes that have no National Codes. The default codes are not displaying on the Data Element. e.g. https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_elements/age_at_activity_date__contract_monitoring_.html and https://v3.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/data_field_notes/a/ag/age_at_activity_date_(contract_monitoring)_de.asp?shownav=1

https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_elements/age_at_attendance_date.html and https://v3.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/data_field_notes/a/ag/age_at_attendance_date_de.asp?shownav=1

James is aware of this and is looking into it.

[oughnic]

Perhaps we should describe the default codes as default values :-)

[AngelaFaulding]

Do you mean on every item? You or James will have to change the section headings I would have to change the overviews again and some of the help pages I am working on. Can we have a very quick decision on this please? I'd rather it stayed as default codes.

[oughnic]

Where the item is a date or a number (not a code) the label is misleading. The four examples aren't codes - two ages (integer number of years) and two dates.

[AngelaFaulding]

@oughnic are you saying we will have a Default Codes section for Data Elements with National Codes and a Default Values section for Data Elements without National Codes. When will this be done?

[cach1]

@oughnic - despite being numeric in their format, the default codes on the 'age' items are actually codes and don't represent a default 'age' of 999, for example. We have fixed a lot of these in terms of the specified format/length (from n3 to max an3 for example) in our various patches upcoming for CDS 6-3. Please don't suggest a different label type for them - it will break all manner of things, not least Angelas help pages stuff. @jamesrwelch please can you ignore @oughnic :-)

[oughnic]

@cach1 Their really neither codes nor values - they are null flavours. We need to work out how we handle then properly.

[cach1]

*they're yep, I agree, but we are where we are

[AngelaFaulding]

Also see https://github.com/NHSDigital/DataDictionaryPublication/issues/254, which has been reported as a help desk query.

[AngelaFaulding]

New Dita provided by James: Default Codes on the test version are now: AGE AT ACTIVITY DATE (CONTRACT MONITORING) - 999 AGE AT ATTENDANCE DATE - 999

Will publish on the 2nd and then close the issue.

[AngelaFaulding]

DD republished and the default codes are correct.