# Update OpenMRS completely damaged my personal concept dictionary **URL:** \ **Category:** Implementing\ **Tags:** metadata\ **Created:** [April 12, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/update-openmrs-completely-damaged-my-personal-concept-dictionary/27932 "2020-04-12T22:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ssmusoke](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/ssmusoke/32/8020_2.png) [@ssmusoke](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/ssmusoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/update-openmrs-completely-damaged-my-personal-concept-dictionary/27932/4 "2020-04-13T14:41:25Z")
> [@burke](#): > > It looks like [COVID-19 concepts were introduced to the Reference Metadata module](https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-referencemetadata/commit/0cbf10b8103b97b9e1e0cd018706c47651ea20ea). @burke @akanter This is a very bad decision IMO, the COVID concepts do not belong in Reference Application, rather they should be part of a custom module and distribution focused on the COVID response, otherwise it ties OpenMRS to COVID, yet there is more to OpenMRS base usage than COVID. This is a similar approach that I recommended for disease specific and vertical distributions on top of RefApp @elkinleon this will however happen whenever you upgrade Ref App due to the concepts that are dependent on the numeric IDs. I would suggest you increment the numeric IDs of all concept related tables by 5000000 (Five Million) before you start creating custom concepts. I have a blog post coming this week that details this approach --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/update-openmrs-completely-damaged-my-personal-concept-dictionary/27932)._