April 30th, 2012· Data visualizer plugin: Plugin for embedding the dynamic charts you see in Data Visualizer module directly in Web pages. Data is loaded from the DHIS back-end server.
August 29th, 2011· Offline data entry: The data entry module - if opened when online - is operational even without Internet connectivity. Data can be entered and stored locally while being offline and uploaded to the central server when online. This means that the online deployment strategy will be more viable in areas with unstable Internet connectivity. The total bandwidth usage is greatly reduced since forms no longer are retrieved from the server for each rendering.
· New Symbol layer in GIS: Data can be visualized as symbols rather than colors. The menu system has been improved to allow more space for the map itself and to emphasize the opportunity to load maps into separate layers to produce more advanced map views.
· Improved data mart performance: Now scalable on the number of CPU cores providing a near-linear performance boosts as new cores are added - for instance the processing time for our benchmark database on a quad-core processor was reduced to close to 1/4.
· Modal dialogs: All popups in the system have been replaced by modal dialogs - this has proved to be less confusing to inexperienced users.
· Conversations: The messaging system is now organized around conversations, making it easy to see the full history of an interaction between a super-user and an end-user for instance.
June 27th, 2011· GIS: Relocate facilities on the map. Click on a facility, select "relocate" and move it to its correct position. In combination with the Google Hybrid Satellite map this is a viable alternative to GPS-based positioning of facilities.
· GIS: New symbol layer. Visualize location and distribution of facilities based on its type - each type can be assigned an icon.
· GIS: View "information sheet" for facilities, containing organisation unit attributes and values for a configurable group of "infrastructural" data elements.
· http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-mapping/mapping/index.html
· General performance improvements: Most database operations in the systems are now cached with both improves speed of navigation and moves load from the database into memory - which is easier to scale when required. Most lists in the system are either paged or loaded asynchronously which improves the perceived performance and usability - you can start working on the forms without waiting for long lists to load completely. Data mart processing time down 65 %.
· Charts: Data elements can be used in charts. You can also choose between indicators, periods, and organisation units in charts. Charts can have target line.
· http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-reporting/displayViewChartForm.action
· Data set report: Export to PDF and Excel
· http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-reporting/showDataSetReportForm.action
· Provision for "number of days" for aggregation period in indicator formulas: Useful e.g. for bed occupancy rate indicators.
· Indicators in custom data entry forms: Used for displaying on-the-fly calculations, useful e.g. for stock forms / reports. See (contrived) "EPI Stock" form.
· http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-dataentry/displayForm.action
· User can only create new users with less authority than themselves, useful for decentralization of user management.
· Feedback function where messages are sent from any user to a configurable group of users.
· Full support (except map export to image) for Internet Explorer 9.
· For the technically interested: Hibernate upgraded to 1.6, Jquery upgraded to 1.6.1, CKEditor 3.5, CalculatedDataElement and Source object removed, minimalistic skin, Google API skin no longer required.
We now have a fresh new 74-page implementation guide, download here:
· http://dhis2.org/documentation
· The MyDatamart tool now includes function for generation of Excel pivot tables connected to the local data mart.
March 4th, 2011· Report generation is now really fast and works well in multi-user environments.
· GIS can have system and user map views - ie users can create their own views without seeing each others while still being able to see the views the super-users have put in.
· GIS has option for going back in the map view history.
· Reports can have completeness data.
· Financial period types based on April, July and October.
April 9th, 2010· Improved validation with standard deviation, minmax, gap and followup analysis.
· Dimensional report tables.
· Improved GIS with predefined legend sets, export to png and excel workbook, and labels.
· Client side / on-the-fly validation of forms.
· Data archiving.
· Embedded help.
· Merging of organisation units and elimination of data element duplicates.
· Objective dataset completeness reporting.
· Support for Chrome, Opera, IE8.
December 22nd, 2009· The DHIS 2 Live package has been improved and now contains GIS, reporting, charting ++ as well as an embedded servlet container, database and sample data in just 60 MB.
· A live demo of the release can be found at demo.dhis2.org
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