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Re: Chart comparing two time intervals

 

Same here, +1 for PSI. It's a common request that users (and donors!) have
so we would love to see it in the next generation chart engine :-)


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On 23 April 2015 at 10:13, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not that it helps you much, but this did indeed come up as a requirement
> with weekly data for Early Warning (quite similar to IDSR) in Cambodia,
> where I ended up making a custom app to allow comparison of this year with
> the average of the 3 preceding years. So this is a +1 vote for adding such
> functionality for all sub-annual data (though the most common use cases are
> probably weekly, or even daily).
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Johan Ivar Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> a common requirement here at the West African IDSR workshop is to compare
>> values of one data element/indicator over two time periods, typically two
>> years as indicated in the attached example. I remember this being possible
>> in old DHIS->Excel pivot tables when periods were split in "month" and
>> "year", but with the "Month year" period I don't see how it can be done in
>> the DHIS. Is there a way to do this, and if not; can it be considered as a
>> new feature? Not sure how it could be done, but some ad-hoc creation of
>> time series perhaps. We can always export it or make custom report, but it
>> seems common enough for IDSR analysis to be useful on-demand inside DHIS.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Johan
>>
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