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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Great progress with 2.20 on a range of features, in particular issues
related to "advanced" tracker applications with a need for more flexible
data entry and editing (like skip logic) as well as aggregated analytics.
Well done!

I assume 2.20 only runs under java 8?

Regards
Calle

On 20 July 2015 at 23:15, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> DHIS version 2.20 is out and has a lot of great features and improvements.
>
> You can log in with admin/district on the demo system.
>
> Program indicators and data elements in aggregate analytics apps: You can
> now get aggregate data for program indicators, tracked entity attributes
> and tracker data elements in the pivot table and data visualizer apps. This
> means that you can produce aggregated results straight from events and
> programs without going through aggregation queries. It also means you can
> create pivots and charts which combines aggregate indicators and data
> elements with event/program-based indicators and data elements.
>
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=AebC7JfgmjQ> |
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-visualizer/index.html?id=hIpKqCfcMXq>
> | Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/pt-program-indicators.png>
>
>
> Flexible internal ordering of data items: In pivot table and data
> visualizer apps you can now arrange various data items such as indicators,
> data elements and data sets in any internal order. All data items have been
> merged into a common “Data” selection which provides a drop-down for
> selecting the various types of data items.
>
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=aoEgc3ExnrL> |
> Screenshot
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/pt-flexible-order-data-items.png>
>
>
>
> Program indicator filter: Program indicators now has a filter property.
> In analytics, this property will filter the events data source before the
> expression is being calculated. Now that program indicators are supported
> in analytics, this is useful e.g. to produce analysis based on stratified
> sampling, where the calculations can be based on age groups, wealth
> quantiles and so on. You can create program indicators from the context
> menu of a program.
>
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=LagifDdu8ku> |
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-program/programIndicator.action?programId=1150221>
> | Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch30.html>
>
>
> Program indicators in data entry: Tracker capture and event capture apps
> can now display calculated values for program indicators on the fly in data
> capture forms.
>
> Screenshot 1 <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/ec-indicator.png> | 2
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/tc-program-indicators.png>
>
>
> Section selector in event capture: Event capture now supports a section
> selector which makes it easier to navigate between sections in long forms.
>
> Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/ec-section-selection.png>
>
>
> Default tracker dashboard layout: In tracker capture, users with the
> right privileges can now define default layout of tracker dashboards per
> program. Inside the dashboard, from the widget selector you can choose
> “save dashboard layout as default”.
>
> Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/tc-default-dasboard.png>
>
>
> ADX data exchange format: This release includes early support for a new
> standard for aggregate data exchange called ADX.  ADX is developed by the
> Quality Research and Public Health (QRPH
> <http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=Quality,_Research_and_Public_Health>)
> technical committee of the IHE consortium and is based largely on dxf2. The
> final version of the standard is due to be published later this year.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s12.html>
>
>
> Approval level option in pivot table: The pivot table app now has an
> approval level option for explicitly defining the approval level for which
> data in the pivot table must be approved up to. This is useful for when
> doing user support and for viewing data approval status. This is only
> visible when the “hide unapproved data” setting is enabled.
>
> Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/pt-approval-level.png>
>
>
> Dynamic dimension filters: The pivot table and data visualizer apps now
> provide item filters also for dynamic dimensions.
>
> Demo <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html> | Screenshot
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/pt-dimension-filter.png>
>
>
> All items selector: In pivot table and data visualizer apps, you can now
> select “all items” next to dynamic dimensions in order to render all
> dimension items in the pivot table / chart. This is used to optimize the
> request going to the server and fixes the problem of “request URL too long”
> which is often encountered when creating very large pivot tables.
>
> Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/pt-all-items.png>
>
>
> Refresh materialized view: You can now refresh a materialized SQL view
> from the context menu of the SQL view.
>
> Screenshot
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/refresh-materialized-view.png>
>
>
> Open future periods for data entry: A new property for controlling
> explicitly how many future periods should be available for data entry has
> been added to data sets. This is an improvement of the current solution
> where you can only control whether data should be entered for future
> periods or not. The data set property is called "open future periods for
> data entry".
>
> Demo
> <https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-dataset/addDataSetForm.action>
>
>
> Program rules: The tracker and event capture app now have support for
> program rules. Program rules are defined per program. A rules is a
> mechanism for allowing dynamic behavior referred to as program rule
> actions. The first fully supported type of dynamic behavior is skip logic
> which makes it possible to hide data elements and sections based on program
> rules expression.
>
> Some conceptual examples are 1) hide the field for entering HIV test
> results if another field has indicated that no HIV test is performed and 2)
> hide field for entering number of pregnancies if the tracked entity
> attribute “Gender” indicates that the person is a man. There is an
> ongoing effort to support other actions/dynamic behaviors. We will get back
> shortly with tutorials.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch31.html> | Screenshot
> 1
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/skip-logic-cervical-cytology-not-done.png>
> | 2
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/skip-logic-cervical-cytology-done-normal-finding.png>
> | 3
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/skip-logic-cervical-cytology-done-abnormal-finding.png>
>
>
> Skip logic in event capture: The event capture app now supports skip
> logic, i.e. hiding data element input fields and sections based on certain
> conditions and values of other data elements. This is based on the new
> program rules model.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch31.html> | Screenshot
> 1 <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/no-family-history-hypertension.png> |
> 2 <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/family-history-hypertension.png>
>
>
> Help text in tracker capture: The tracker capture data entry shows an
> information icon next to the data elements that contain a description.
> Clicking the icon reveals the data element description.
>
> Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/tc-help-text.png>
>
>
> Constant and program indicator sharing: Constants and program indicators
> now support sharing. Constants also has received code, short name and
> description properties.
>
> Screenshot
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/program-indicator-sharing.png>
>
>
> Program data entry form navigation: To create a custom program
> registration form you can use the program context menu and click “Create
> custom registration form”. This makes navigation easier compared to the
> current separate left menu item.
>
> Screenshot
> <https://www.dhis2.org/images/220/program-registration-form.png>
>
>
>
> WEB API FEATURES
>
> ----
>
> OAuth2 authentication support: OAuth2 <http://oauth.net/2/> is an
> industry-standard protocol for authentication between applications. This
> allows for more secure, reliable and standards-based authentication between
> systems.
>
> Docs
> <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s02.html#d5e75>
>
> Web message error response: A new format for warning and error messages
> have been introduced consistently across all Web API resources. It contains
> properties for http status, http status code, message and application
> status.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s03.html>
>
> Tracked entity instance object query: A new resource for querying tracked
> entity instances which returns the full objects in the response has been
> added. This is suitable for clients such as Android apps that need to
> download and synchronize all information about tracked entity instances.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s42.html>
>
> GML error feedback: The GML importer has been made more robust and now
> provides proper user feedback when something goes wrong.
>
> Last updated and limit for data values: The data value sets resource now
> supports parameters for getting data values updated after a given time and
> for controlling the max limit of data values to return.
>
> Docs
> <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s11.html#d5e1433>
>
> Program rule import-export: Program rules, program actions and program
> rule variables are supported in meta-data import-export.
>
> Enrollment query with last updated parameter: The enrollment query
> resource has been greatly improved and now lets you filter by last updated.
>
> Docs <https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch01s41.html>
>
>
>
> RELEASE INFO
>
> ----
>
> You can download Live package, WAR file, sample data and source code here:
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/downloads
>
>
> You will find documentation and Javadocs here:
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/documentation
>
>
> You can read the upgrade notes and find upgrade script here:
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/220-upgrade
>
>
> The demo application can be found here:
>
> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo
>
>
> Full list of features can be found at the Launchpad page:
>
> https://launchpad.net/dhis2/+milestone/2.20
>
>
> Instructions for signing up for the DHIS 2 mailing lists here:
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/contact
>
>
>
>
> best regards,
>
> the DHIS 2 development team
>
>
>
>
>
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