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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.24 is out with a lot of improvements and new features.

Log in with admin/district on the demo <http://play.dhis2.org/demo/> system.



ANALYTICS FEATURES

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GIS layers for elevation, population density and nighttime lights: DHIS 2
now supports map layers from Google Earth Engine
<https://earthengine.google.com/>, which includes more than thirty years of
historical imagery and scientific datasets, updated and expanded daily. So
far we support three datasets, but more layers will be added in the months
to come. You find the Earth Engine layers in the top menu, next to the
boundary layers. The elevation layer can be used to visualise the risk of
Mosquito-borne disease. Select a color scale, minimum and maximum
elevation, and the number of steps to divide your range in. The same
options are available for the population and nighttime lights layers, which
is also an indicator of where people live.

Screenshot 1 <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/gis-ee-elevation.png> | 2
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/gis-ee-population-fic.png> | 3
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/dashboard-gis-ee.png> | 4
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/gis-ee-elevation-malaria.png> | Demo 1
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/index.html?id=rumxQc94V2p> | 2
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/index.html?id=msMkiByWGeM> | 3
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/index.html?id=AHWtSmx21sx> |
Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch14s08.html>


Place search in GIS: You can now search for places and regions on the GIS
app. Click on the magnifier icon and type the name of the place. You will
get suggestions as you type. Select a place in the list to see it marked on
the map. Click the x-button in the search field to remove the marking.

Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/gis-place-search.png> | Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/#> | Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch14s13.html>


Color scales for GIS thematic layers: Select among nice looking color
scales from ColorBrewer <http://colorbrewer.org> when you visualise
thematic layers. These scales create more accurate and user friendly maps,
as the distances between colors are proportional to their perceived
difference.

Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/gis-color-scales.png>


Reporting rates on time: The pivot table apps lets you view reporting rates
based on timely form submissions. A timely submission must happen within a
number of days after the reporting period. This number is configurable per
data set. In the pivot table or data app, select Data > Data sets >
Reporting rates on time or Actual reports on time and then select your data
set.

Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/reporting-rates-on-time.png> |
Demo <https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=TuB9GbwDpJI>
| Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch12s02.html#d0e8380>


Reporting rates by data set categories: Analytics now supports reporting
rates broken down by data set categories. As an example, if your data set
collects data for multiple projects modeled as data set categories, you can
view the reporting rate for individual projects. Try it out on the demo by
selecting the EPI Stock data set and the Project category.

Screenshot
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/reporting-rates-data-set-categories.png>
| Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=ewuWkBZtMTZ>


Expected reports based on org unit opening and closed date: For reporting
rates in analytics, the number of expected reports is now calculated based
on whether the organisation units assigned to the data set were open or not
for the aggregation period. As an example, if you ask for reporting rates
for a district for June, and one of the facilities within the district was
not open until August, that facility will not be included in the number of
expected reports.

Screenshot
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/reporting-rates-opening-closed-dates.png>


Expected reports based on category option start and end dates: For
reporting rates which involve data set categories, the number of expected
reports is now calculated based on start and end dates of the relevant
category options. In other words, complete registrations for category
options are only included if the aggregation period is within their start
and end dates.

Screenshot
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/reporting-rates-cat-option-start-end-dates.png>
| Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=s16eSJzMXLG>


Pivot table filter title: The pivot table app now displays the items
currently selected as filters as a title on top of the table.

Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/pivot-table-filter.png> | Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-pivot/index.html?id=EoS5brPVvqp>


GENERAL FEATURES

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Improved maintenance app: Data sets, metadata attributes, constants and
option sets are now supported in the Maintenance app.

Screenshot
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/other-objects-maintenance-app.png> | Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-maintenance/#/list/all?_k=rek4ql> |
Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch10.html>


Apps and object search from menu: You can now navigate directly to an
object type from the App menu. For example, search for “group set” in the
top menu, and navigate directly to the list of organisation unit group sets
or indicator group sets, without navigating first to the maintenance app.

Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/app-menu-search.png>


Improved data usage statistics: The Usage Analytics app now provides
reports for the most viewed favorites by type (or example pivot table and
chart) and number of data values stored per day.

Screenshot 1
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/usage-analytics-data-values.png> | 2
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/usage-analytics-top-dashboards.png> | Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-usage-analytics/index.html> | Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch27.html>


Ticket system: You can now set priority and status for feedback messages.
This allows you to use the DHIS 2 messaging as a basic ticket system useful
for managing user support. Each message can be treated as a ticket and go
through a workflow (similar to e.g. Zendesk). You can also send internal
messages, visible only to other ticket administrators. This requires
membership to the “Feedback recipient” user group.

Screenshot 1 <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/tickets-list.png> | 2
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/tickets-pending.png> | Demo 1
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dashboard-integration/message.action>
| 2
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dashboard-integration/readMessage.action?id=aqvFxkI4BZj>
| Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch06s04.html>


Metadata synchronization: Metadata synchronization enables DHIS 2 instances
to synchronize metadata with each other. Given a central and multiple
remote instances, metadata created at central can sync with the remote
instances. The remote instances will check the central instance for new,
available metadata packages/versions. This allows the implementor to roll
out metadata updates in a controlled and staged manner.

Docs 1
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s15.html> |
2 <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s16.html>
| Screenshot <https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/metadata-synchronization.png>


TRACKER FEATURES

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Tabular data entry widget: Tracker capture has a new data entry widget that
allows for tabular-style data entry. It displays the list of program stages
as left-hand side labels. Events will be listed in table for repeatable
program stage, and allows for in-line edits of event data values. The
widget can be enabled from the tracker dashboard by going to gear icon >
Show/hide icons and selecting “Tabular data entry”.

Screenshot
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/tracker-capture-tabular-data-entry.png> |
Demo
<https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-tracker-capture/index.html#/dashboard?tei=wsk89u7zquT&program=ur1Edk5Oe2n&ou=DiszpKrYNg8>
| Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch25s03.html>


Open tracker dashboard from URL: Tracker dashboards can now be opened
directly from URLs. This is useful e.g. in order for integration with other
tracker apps. Security rules are still applied.

Demo
<http://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-tracker-capture/index.html#/dashboard?tei=wsk89u7zquT&program=ur1Edk5Oe2n&ou=DiszpKrYNg8>
| Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch25s03.html>


Improved program rules: There are two new types of actions for program
rules. These allow consolidated errors and warnings when events is
completed (in tracker capture) and saved/updated (in event capture). This
is useful when there is a combination of things in the form that should
trigger an error/warning, whereas each single data element might be legal
in itself. One such example is conditional mandatory fields. Check out
the Antenatal
care visit program program on the demo.

Screenshot 1
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/program-rules-validation-warnings.png> | 2
<https://www.dhis2.org/images/224/program-rules-validation-errors.png> |
Demo <https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-event-capture/index.html#/> |
Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch29.html>


System-generated identifiers: For unique tracked entity attributes you can
now have the system automatically generate and assign numeric IDs. When
registering tracked entity instances on web, the tracker capture
registration form will automatically be populated with a number in the
given pattern. In tracker on Android, the ID generation is used to reserve
a series of IDs for each Android device. This allows offline registration
of tracked entity instances without risking duplicate IDs when syncing with
the server. Have a look at the WHO RMNCH Tracker program on the demo.

Demo <https://play.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-tracker-capture/index.html#/> |
Docs <http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/user/html/ch25s02.html>


WEB API FEATURES

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Improved translations solution: The database translations solution has been
completely rewritten and nows works while “traversing the object graph”.
This means that you can navigate e.g. JSON documents from dataElement to
groups and still get translated a displayName. This will also fix a range
of issues where un-translated content appeared in the user interface of
apps.

Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s06.html#d0e601>


Data predictors: A new solution for generating predicted values have been
introduced in the Web API. This component will be useful for generating
thresholds for disease surveillance, population growth and more. We will
provide a UI for this and more info in version 2.25.

Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s73.html>


Program messages: The Web API now features a new concept for program
messages, which allows you to send messages to tracked entity instances,
emails and SMS. This can be useful e.g. in order to send reminders about
upcoming visits and notifications for awareness programs to people.

Docs
<http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s46.html>


RELEASE INFO

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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/224-upgrade


The demo application can be found here:

https://play.dhis2.org/demo


Full list of features can be found at the Launchpad page:

https://launchpad.net/dhis2/+milestone/2.24


Instructions for signing up for the DHIS 2 mailing lists here:

https://www.dhis2.org/contact


TESTIMONIALS
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A big thanks goes to MSF <http://www.msf.org/> and Thoughtworks
<https://www.thoughtworks.com/> for contribution to this release.




Enjoy the new features.


best regards,


the DHIS 2 development team




-- 
Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
Skype: larshelgeoverland
lars@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>