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[David Muturi <dnmuturi@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is cool Lars, but the users here in Kenya have hardly settled on 2.13.
I like the new features like data approvals and the improvements on google
analytics to track usage. I am getting a copy though for my laptop to go
through the changes before advising the users on next steps.
rgds
David


2014/1/10 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi all,
>
>
>  DHIS version 2.14 is out. There are lots of new features this time, too:
>
>
>
>  - Events in GIS: You can now visualize events, or individual cases, on
> maps. This means that you can easily drill down from mapping of the
> aggregated data to the underlying cases. As an example, you can go from
> viewing percentage of delivery by skilled health worker in the country, to
> where those deliveries actually took place in a district. You can query for
> events from a particular program using any number of data elements or
> attributes, using both exact and partial matches.
>
>
> Try it out on the demo - log in with admin/district - the event layer is
> the leftmost layer on the top menu, e.g. for the "inpatient
> morbidity/mortality" program.
>
>
>  Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/app/index.html> |
> Screenshot <http://www.dhis2.org/images/214/gis-events-large.png> |
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch18s02.html#gisEventMap>
>
>
>
>  - Data approval: A work-flow where data must be approved at each level
> of the organisational unit hierarchy is now supported. Data is approved per
> data set, time period and organisation unit. Data may be approved for the
> organisation unit for which it is entered, as well as for higher-level
> organisation units to which the data is aggregated. It can be approved for
> a higher-level organisation unit only after it has been approved for all
> that organisation unit's children for the same data set and period. When a
> data set is approved, the form will be locked and any further data entry
> prohibited.
>
>
>  Data approval is configurable per data set, and can be set in the
> add/edit data set screen. It comes with two new authorities: “approve data”
> and “approve data at lower levels”. Data approval happens in data set
> report in reports module. When a data set report shows data that is
> configured for approval, it shows the approval status of the data in the
> report which will be one of “ready for approval”, “approved” or “waiting
> for lower level org units to approve”. The approval and un-approval buttons
> can be found below the actual data set report. Note that approval must
> happen for the data set collection period type / frequency.
>
>
> Approval does not yet affect data analysis - we want your input on the
> requirements before building the next step. Try it out on the demo for the
> "ART monthly summary" and "Population" data sets.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-reporting/showDataSetReportForm.action>|
> Documentation <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch06.html>
>
>
>
>  - Data set categories: You can now link a data set to a category
> combination in order to capture information which is common to the entire
> data set. Typical use-cases are data capture for an implementing partner,
> funding mechanism or project. Categories and category combinations can now
> be of type “disaggregation”, representing the kind of categories used for
> data element disaggregation, or type “attribute”, representing the new
> categories for data sets.
>
>
>  By linking a category combination to a data set, those categories will
> be displayed as drop-down boxes in the data entry module. Data captured in
> the form will then be linked to the selected category options from those
> drop-down boxes. As an example, you can let users select a specific funding
> mechanism, a project or an implementing partner organisation, and then
> capture data in a form against that selection. Try it out on the demo by
> selecting the “ARV monthly summary” data set in data entry module.
>
>
>  Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dataentry/index.action> |
> Documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch05.html#d5e868>|
> Screenshot <http://www.dhis2.org/images/214/data-attributes-large.png>
>
>
>
>  - Dynamic person attributes only: All fixed attributes for persons have
> been removed and replaced with various new types of dynamic attributes,
> including age, phone number and associate. This avoids previous situations
> where the system required you to input gender, birth date and so on even if
> this information was not being collected for persons. The idea is also to
> improve the applicability of the tracker component and allow for tracking
> of all kinds of entities, including commodities, logistics, medicines,
> equipment, lab samples, boreholes, crops and students. We plan to further
> generalize the system for next release by replacing "person" with a more
> generic "tracked entity" and encourage you to be creative when considering
> new use-cases for tracker.
>
>
>  Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-caseentry/index.action>
>
>
>
>  - Support for embedding pivot tables, charts and maps: By going to share
> > embed as plugin in any of the data visualization modules you can now get
> the code required to embed your analysis directly in a web page. This lets
> you build attractive web portals with live data visualized as pivot tables,
> charts and maps.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-visualizer/app/index.html?id=HDEDqV3yv3H>|
> Screenshot <http://www.dhis2.org/images/214/plugin-config-large.png> | Plugin
> documentation<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s19.html>
>
>
>
>  - Context menu: The menu system for performing actions on objects in
> lists has been much improved, and now appears as a nice contextual menu
> which clearly identifies the available operations. This relieves the user
> of the previous, confusing long row of similar-looking icons. Try it out on
> the demo by clicking on any row.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-dataset/dataSet.action>
>
>
>
>  - Google Analytics support: You can now set up Google Analytics for your
> DHIS instance simply by entering the analytics key under settings > general
> settings > google analytics key. This will let you learn more about how
> people are using your system, like how many people are regularly logging
> into the system, utilizing the analysis modules, which favorites are most
> popular, what devices and browsers are being used, from where are people
> logging in and what is the average loading time for reports.
>
>
> Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-settings/systemGeneralSettings.action>| Google
> analytics <http://www.google.com/analytics/>
>
>
>
>  - Pivot table sorting: Pivot table now supports sorting by columns by
> clicking directly on the column labels, letting you sort ascending or
> descending on any column in the table. This enables you to quickly find the
> highest and lowest values for data elements, indicators and reporting
> rates. Note that sorting currently works with only one dimension as rows.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/app/index.html?id=NBt7kGTOQTb>
>
>
>
>  - Forced password change: The system can be configured to require users
> to change their password at regular intervals. From settings > access >
> Require user account password change you can choose between "3 months", "6
> months" and "12 months" intervals between each user is asked to update her
> password. This feature is optional and you can leave it on "never" to
> disable it.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance-settings/systemAccessSettings.action>
>
>
>
>  - Interpretations can be edited and deleted by the person writing it.
> This allows you to modify or correct errors, or remove completely. You can
> click on the gear icon next to the interpretation or interpretation comment
> to edit.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dashboard-integration/interpretation.action>
>
>
>
>  - Detailed meta-data export: You can now create meta-data export files
> tailored to your needs. You can freely select from any type of meta-data,
> and select individual items from any number of object types. This is useful
> e.g. when you work on a staging server and want to move data sets,
> indicators and reports over to a production server. Try it out from
> services > import-export > meta-data detailed export.
>
>
>  Demo<http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-importexport/dxf2FilteredMetaDataExport.action>
>
>
>
>  - GIS has a new admin option for swapping longitude and latitude of
> points. This is useful when cleaning up wrongly entered coordinates - a
> typical source of error is users mixing them up.
>
>
>  Screenshot <http://www.dhis2.org/images/214/gis-long-lat-large.png>
>
>
>
>  - Cache problem fix: The system is now using the revision number to
> retrieve fresh copies of static files on the web server. This will solve
> the frequent problems we see caused by outdated web browser caches when
> upgrading to new DHIS versions. The data entry module, which is entirely
> stored in the browser local storage, will ask for permission to update
> itself once a new version is available on the server and then download a
> fresh copy of all files.
>
>
>
>  - The FRED module (Facility Registry API) has been improved and
> externalized as a Web App. You can get it from http://appstore.dhis2.org,
> and try it out on the demo by going to services > FRED UI.
>
>
>  Demo <http://apps.dhis2.org/demo> | App Store<http://www.dhis2.org/appstore>
>
>
>
>  - Lots of minor fixes to improve usability have been made: Allow for
> self-registration of users without captcha for intranet contexts. Files
> uploaded as resources can be flagged for download as attachment as well as
> rendered inline in browser. Group sets can be configured to be used or
> ignored as data dimensions. Organisation unit groups can be assigned
> directly to data sets, allowing for more flexible associations. Data sets
> can be associated with legend sets for automatic rendering in GIS and pivot
> table. Content which is stored in the browser’s local storage is separated
> by user, letting many people use the same computer to enter data without
> clearing cache. The smartphone mobile client now displays the current data
> set, period and organisation unit during data entry. Pivot table downloads
> supports the hide empty rows and show org unit hierarchy options. There
> have also been several fixes related to IE8.
>
>
>
> For *developers*, it might be interesting to know that we are constantly
> rewriting the application to improve the Web API and use it for our own
> user interface modules. The pivot table, data visualizer and FRED modules
> have now been rewritten as Web apps<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Quickstart/Build/Intro_to_open_web_apps>,
> and the Web API has gotten several new resources: data values<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s10.html>,
> data approval<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s15.html>,
> plugins <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s19.html>,
> translations <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s28.html>and svg
> conversion <http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s30.html>.
> The meta-data<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s05.html>resource supports deletion, and has a new option which speeds up minor
> imports. The event analytics<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch27s23.html>resource supports coordinates.
>
>
>
> You can *download* the new WAR file and Live package and get the source
> code and sample database from the web site here:
>
>
> http://www.dhis2.org/downloads
>
>
>
> You will find *documentation* here:
>
>
> http://www.dhis2.org/documentation
>
>
>
> We have made a web page for the *highlights* in 2.14 here:
>
>
> http://www.dhis2.org/214
>
>
>
> Full *overview* of features and fixes here:
>
>
> https://launchpad.net/dhis2/+milestone/2.14
>
>
>
> Enjoy the new features.
>
>
>
> best regards,
>
>
> the DHIS 2 development team
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