FHIR Chat · Publishing date · conformance

Stream: conformance

Topic: Publishing date


view this post on Zulip Michel Rutten (Apr 03 2018 at 13:22):

StructureDefinition (and other conformance resources) provide a publishing date property:
http://hl7.org/fhir/structuredefinition-definitions.html#StructureDefinition.date

According to the spec, "The date must change if and when the business version changes and it must change if the status code changes. In addition, it should change when the substantive content of the structure definition changes."

Question: is it expected that a FHIR server updates the .date property value on post/put (like .meta.lastModified)?
Or should client tools (Forge) automatically update this field before publishing to FHIR server?
Or is the author responsible for setting and updating this field manually?

view this post on Zulip Grahame Grieve (Apr 03 2018 at 18:10):

manual

view this post on Zulip Grahame Grieve (Apr 03 2018 at 18:10):

though it might be appropriate for you to warn the user - "you've changed the version, you are expected to change the date"...

view this post on Zulip Peter Bomberg (May 18 2018 at 12:40):

Definitely Manual as the decision what constitutes a substantive change is subjective, but it would be nice if the tool prompts the user


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