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[Kayode Odusote <odusote.kayode@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Lars,

CONGRATULATIONS AND SINCERE APPRECIATION TO YOU AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE
DEVELOPERS TEAM AND PROJECT LEADERS.

Kayode


On 4/23/14, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> DHIS version 2.15 is out. We have a great set of new features for you:
>
>
> - *Event reports app*: We have a completely new "event reports" app for
> analysis of events. This app lets you do aggregated analysis of events
> directly without building aggregation queries and create pivot-style
> tables, where you can use data elements as individual dimensions together
> with periods and org units. All dimensions can be placed on columns, rows
> and filters. The app also lets you query on events using filters on all
> data elements, org units or periods. It lets you save tables as favorites
> and share them with others. You can also download your favorites to many
> popular formats. This app replaces the old tabular reports. You can check
> it out on the demo by browsing through all of the favorites.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27.html> |
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-event-reports/app/index.html?id=UkrtwQA5NpO>
>
>
> - *Event capture app*: A new app for capture of events. This app makes it
> easy to capture events efficiently, view the list of events capture so far
> and update existing events. It lets you configure and select the columns to
> show in the list of events. The app works offline, meaning that you can
> continue to enter events even if connectivity drops during your working
> session.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch26.html> |
> Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-event-capture/index.html>
>
>
> - *Tracked entities*: In tracker you can now define any number of tracked
> entities, representing things you want to track. Tracked entities can be
> commodities, lab samples, buildings, wells, drug batches and persons, or
> anything you want. This makes the system more flexible and applicable for
> tracking most stuff beyond just persons. A program is associated with one
> tracked entity. We hope that you will be creative and take advantage of
> this new level of abstraction. You can define tracked entities from persons
> and programs > tracked entity.
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-program/trackedEntity.action>
>
>
> - *Data approval levels*: You can now configure the levels for where
> approval of data should take place. For instance, you can require that data
> must be approved at the facility and provincial org unit hierarchy levels,
> omitting approval at the district levels. An approval level requires that
> the data must be approval by some user linked to the specific level for it
> to be considered valid and be available in data analysis. Approval levels
> are configured under settings > approval.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch06.html> |
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-settings/systemApprovalSettings.action>
>
>
> - *Data approval in analytics*: Data approval now takes place in reports
> module > data approval. Approval of data is now respected in data analytics
> tools such as pivot table and visualizer, meaning that data which has not
> been approved will not be part of the aggregated values displayed in
> reports. This implies that data can be hidden until it has been approved by
> the appropriate persons. In other words, the aggregated data in analysis
> apps will be based on approved data only.
>
> Documentation
> <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s13.html>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-reporting/showDataApprovalForm.action>
>
>
> - *Data access control in org unit hierarchy*: User's access to data can
> now be controlled in the organisation unit hierarchy. This is done by
> assigning data view root organisation units per user. The existing
> association between users and org units represent access to doing data
> capture. The new association for data view organisation units controls for
> which organisation units a user can view analytical data in the analysis
> modules such as pivot table and visualizer.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch07.html#user_management>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-user/showAddUserForm.action>
>
>
> - *Category option groups and group sets*: Category options can now be
> further classified by assigning them to category option groups and group
> sets. An example where this is useful is when representing various projects
> as category options and there is a need to classify these projects by
> funding agencies/donors. The group sets are available as dimensions in all
> data analysis modules. You set these up from data elements and indicators >
> category option groups / group sets.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch04.html#d5e758>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-datadictionary/categoryOptionGroup.action>
>
>
>  - *Top menu*: We have added a new, more flexible top menu. This menu
> displays all apps that is available to the current user, including both
> standard apps and installed, external apps. It works well on touch-based
> devices due to the large icons. You can organize your apps by clicking on
> "more apps" link and drag-and-drop your apps into the order you would like.
> Note that your first nine apps will be displayed in the drop-down menu. You
> can scroll down in the top drop-down menu to view all apps, too. Check it
> out on the demo by hovering the "apps" icon in the top menu.
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dashboard-integration/index.action>
>
>
> - *User account invites*: A new feature for inviting new users to the
> system has been added. An invite is similar to an account, except that
> instead of specifying username and password, an email is sent to the
> invited user, who can pick username and password herself before logging
> into the system. This is useful to avoid insecure password generation such
> as standard or simplistic passwords, or passwords being known by other than
> the user herself. Check it out in the add new user screen by selecting
> "email invitation to create account" from the top drop-down menu.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch07.html#user_management>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-user/showAddUserForm.action>
>
>
> - *Std dev and variance aggregation operators*: Data elements can now have
> new aggregation operators which includes count, standard deviation and
> variance. These aggregation operators can also be specified directly in
> analytics web api queries. This allows for more advanced reports and
> aggregations.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch04.html#dataElement>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-datadictionary/showAddDataElementForm.action>
>
>
> - *Org unit group counts in indicators*: In indicator formulas you can now
> include the number of org units in a specific group. This count of org
> units intersects with the org unit hierarchy based on the org unit
> requested for aggregation. As an example, this lets you use the number of
> public facilities in a specific district in indicators. This is useful e.g.
> when creating facility infrastructure surveys and reports. Check out the
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch13.html> |
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/app/index.html?id=hSGuhZLDBSN>
>
>
> - *Custom range axis in visualizer*: In data visualizer you can now specify
> a new set of options for the range (y) axis, namely the max and min value,
> the number of ticks to use, and the number of decimals for the axis values.
> This is useful when e.g. you want to "zoom in" on the upper part of a bar
> chart in order to highlight differences between org units. Check out the
> demo chart which shows immunization coverage between 70% and 110%.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch17.html> |
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-visualizer/app/index.html?id=BqUYzUotRlr>
>
>
> - *OpenID authentication*: The system can now be configured to authenticate
> users through OpenID. This is useful to avoid forcing users to create yet
> another username and password. OpenID is an open standard that allows users
> to be authenticated through identify providers, such as Google and Yahoo.
> The OpenID provider can be specified from settings > access.
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-settings/systemAccessSettings.action>
>
>
> - *CSV meta-data import*: From import-export module you can now import
> meta-data in CSV format. Supported objects are currently data elements +
> groups, category options + groups and organisation units + groups. CSV
> import is quite handy when doing ad-hoc imports from spreadsheets and the
> like.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch21.html#d5e3265>
> |
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-importexport/dxf2MetaDataImport.action?importFormat=csv>
>
>
> - *More dynamic attributes*: You can now assign dynamic attributes to data
> sets and organisation unit group sets. This is useful when you need to
> capture additional meta-data information beyond what is offered as fixed
> attributes on these objects.
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-dataadmin/showAddAttributeForm.action>
>
>
> - *Unit intervals*: Data elements now have a new numeric value type called
> unit interval, which is a continuous number between 0 and 1. This is useful
> e.g. when you require users to enter a percentage in data entry without
> having to specify validation rules for each data element.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch04.html#dataElement>|
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-datadictionary/showAddDataElementForm.action>
>
>
> - *Standard comments*: Data elements can now define option sets for data
> value comments. This means that you can use an option set to define a
> standard, common set of comments to data values, and let users choose an
> option by clicking inside the data entry cells and using the regular
> comment field. You can check it out on the demo for the "facility
> assessment" form for the "facility infrastructure" data elements.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch04.html#dataElement>|
> Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dataentry/index.action>
>
>
> - *Extended sharing*: The sharing paradigm has now been applied to a new
> range of objects: org unit group set, data element group, data element
> group set, category combination, category, category option, sql view, user
> role, validation rule group, option set, tracked entity attribute. The
> sharing solution enables you to give objects public/private access for
> reading or writing, and share objects with other groups of users.
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-datadictionary/categoryOption.action>
>
>
> - *Minor* new features:
>
> - Data sets have a new setting for forcing users to enter a *comment for
> missing data values* before clicking complete.
>  - When importing events you can now specify the organisation unit
> *identifier
> scheme*, such as code.
> - Data visualizer now discriminates between* missing values and zeros* -
> missing values are displayed as dashes.
> - DHIS 1.4 import now includes *import of validation rules*.
> - A new *six-monthly period type* with start in April is now supported for
> data capture and analysis.
>
>
> ---
>
>
> This version brings a lot of improvements to the *Web API*, which is now
> richer, more stable and better documented. We have continued on our path of
> making all system aspects available through the Web API, while rewriting
> our own clients as light-weight apps.
>
>
> - *Flexible property filtering*: When requesting lists of meta-data
> objects, the API now allows for flexible filtering on any meta-data
> property, using any number of filters per query.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s06.html>
>
>
> - *CRUD*: All API resources now directly support create, update, get and
> delete operations, allowing for modifying resources directly instead of
> going through the meta-data resource - makes the API more in line with REST
> principles and more convenient to use.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s08.html>
>
>
> - *Meta-data inclusion / exclusion*: For each resource you can specify
> precisely which properties and collections you want to be serialized and
> included in the response - useful e.g. to avoid loading big collections
> unnecessarily for objects.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s07.html>
>
>
> - *Tracked entity instance query*: A new resource for querying and
> searching tracked entity instances (e.g. persons, medicines) has been
> added, which supports free-text queries, queries on specific attributes,
> programs, program status, events and more.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s34.html>
>
>
> - *Data value set templates*: You can now generate data value set templates
> for specific data sets, making it simpler to create data entry clients.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s09.html#d5e7828>
>
>
> - *JSON data value sets*: Data value sets can now be rendered as JSON, in
> addition to the existing XML support.
>
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s09.html#d5e7719>
>
>
> - *Maintenance*: Certain maintenance functions are now available through a
> maintenance web api resource.
>
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30s24.html>
>
>
> ---
>
>
> You can *download* Live package, WAR file, sample data and source code
> here:
>
> http://www.dhis2.org/downloads
>
>
> You will find *documentation* and javadocs here:
>
> http://www.dhis2.org/documentation
>
>
> The *demo* application can be found here:
>
> http://apps.dhis2.org/demo
>
>
> Full list of features can be found at the *Launchpad* page:
>
> https://launchpad.net/dhis2/+milestone/2.15
>
>
>
> Enjoy the new features. Feedback is appreciated.
>
>
> best regards,
>
> the DHIS 2 development team
>