Background

PSI, as well as many other organisation use DHIS2 as their de facto Master List of Facilities. DHIS2 provides various API endpoints to perform various operation across Org Units. DHIS API has a comprehensive documentation on how to execute DHIS2 Org Unit API operations.

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Last, users may want to make use of custom attributes to store an array of value (perhaps as comma delimited values). A search operation by the individual value is not supported by DHIS2 API.

Locator API - Introduction

Locator API is a self-contained API that support the retrieval or Org Units based on alternative, non-native DHIS2 API calls, in particular:

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