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[Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Olav Poppe <olav.poppe@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi devs,
> I wanted to make a dashboard for a single event death registration
> program, but I found it quite difficult. Below is a list of issues I ran
> into - some of them are bugs/problems, others feature requests and
> questions.
>
> - Days are not part of the relative periods. Since all data is recorded by
> day/date, it would be great if we could also have reports by day/date
> (fixed periods allow you to make reports by day of course, but if you want
> to have an up-to-date dashboard it means you have to update the report
> every day). Having at least the last 7 days, or last 28/30/31 days (not
> sure which one is the most useful) would be great.
>
> - The last/this for relative periods is problematic here (as elsewhere).
> Making a report for the number of cases registered this year, for example,
> is not possible using the relative periods: «This year» is still 2014 in
> DHIS. I’m sure it will change at some point, but I don’t know when.
>
> - In event report, the default layout is to have orgunits AND periods on
> the columns, and nothing on rows. So by default you get «undefined/Periods»
> as cell A2 (in Excel terminology) and the table will be messed up (all data
> rows shifted one place to the left because there is no header cell on the
> rows). It is not uncommon to want to run a report without data items, since
> it will give you the number of event or TEIs registered in a period.
> - event reports do not seem to be available in dashboards?
>
> - More than one series in event visualiser would be great. For example
> number of cases as a line chart with one series for male and one for
> female, or for different age groups.
>
> - The options for filtering in event visualiser and report is a bit
> strange. For example, using an «age» data element, it does not seem to be
> possible to make a chart where the series is «cases with age < 5 yrs».
> Instead, it  will make five different series (Age 0, Age 1, Age 2). I see
> that this is useful in some cases (though I can’t really think of any right
> now), but my guess is that getting all matches together would be most
> useful in most cases.
>
> - «Yes only» data elements are treated as integers when filtering in event
> visualiser/reports.
>
> - It is not possible to make a report on the number of cases in event
> visualiser, as it requires you to select a data item (unlike event
> reports). Being able to make a chart of the total number of cases by time
> or orgunit would be useful.
>
> Regards
> Olav
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