I’m working through applying the OpenMRS validation rules to CIEL and want to clarify one of the validation rules. A question came up on applying the validation rule: " Multiple concepts cannot share the same preferred name in the same locale".
Currently, OCL is enforcing this such that preferred names are unique across all names including (non-preferred) synonyms. I believe we want to allow for concepts to share the same synonym as long as multiple concepts don’t have the same synonym marked as preferred within the same locale.
The problem comes up for concepts in CIEL. For example:
- “Eggs” (#716) as in ova
- “Eggs” (#162171) as in from a chicken (marked as preferred name)
While fully-specified names must be unique across all names, we want to allow duplicates across non-preferred synonyms, correct? Assuming so, I’ll ask the OCL team to refactor the validation rule to only enforce uniqueness of synonyms amongst those marked as preferred.
/cc @ball