dhis version 2.27 is released

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES

···

Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org

Hi

Good to see the team managed to get it out on time (proving that moving to a 4-month cycle was the right decision).

A number of urgently needed new features are included, even if a lot of stuff recently were pushed to 2.28 - I just hope the team had enough time to iron out all/most of the bugs we’ve seen in 2.27 trunk recently ;-).

Well done - and enjoy a few “utepils” (= drinking in public for those speaking Trollish) over the weekend!

Best regards from Cape Town

Calle

···

On 2 June 2017 at 13:44, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227-upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10418

Source code on Github

https://github.com/dhis2

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

https://www.dhis2.org/contact

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team

Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Very good news

Hi

Good to see the team managed to get it out on time (proving that moving to a 4-month cycle was the right decision).

A number of urgently needed new features are included, even if a lot of stuff recently were pushed to 2.28 - I just hope the team had enough time to iron out all/most of the bugs we’ve seen in 2.27 trunk recently ;-).

Well done - and enjoy a few “utepils” (= drinking in public for those speaking Trollish) over the weekend!

Best regards from Cape Town

Calle

···

Le Vendredi 2 juin 2017 13h21, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com a écrit :

On 2 June 2017 at 13:44, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

https://github.com/dhis2

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

https://www.dhis2.org/contact

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

Good to see the team managed to get it out on time (proving that moving to a 4-month cycle was the right decision).

A number of urgently needed new features are included, even if a lot of stuff recently were pushed to 2.28 - I just hope the team had enough time to iron out all/most of the bugs we’ve seen in 2.27 trunk recently ;-).

Well done - and enjoy a few “utepils” (= drinking in public for those speaking Trollish) over the weekend!

Best regards from Cape Town

Calle


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On 2 June 2017 at 13:44, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227-upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10418

Source code on Github

https://github.com/dhis2

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

https://www.dhis2.org/contact

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team

Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

···

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.

  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.

  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.

  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.

  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.

  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).

  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227-upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10418

Source code on Github

https://github.com/dhis2

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

https://www.dhis2.org/contact

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users
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Dear All,
I have downloaded War file of new released dhis2 (version 2.27), Now i want to download database for this, I opened following link but could not find sample data file
https://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/2.27/dhis2-demo.zip
Can anyonbe help how can i find it, Secondly I need empty database structure (without data populated in tables), How can i achieve it?

Thanks

···

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RAJA IMRAN QAMER,

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead,
PACE TECHNOLOGIES,
Email:imran@pace-tech.com, rajaimranqamer@gmail.com
Phone: +923345073573, +92512361110
Web: www.pace-tech.com

Dear Raja Imran

Once you deploy, database will automatically created by DHIS2.

···

Nayeem Al Mifthah
Consultant for HSS, Health MIS, M&E
Email: n.mifthah@gmail.com
Cell:+8801914030574

Skype: nayeem.a.m

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Raja Imran Qamer imran@pace-tech.com wrote:

Dear All,

I have downloaded War file of new released dhis2 (version 2.27), Now i want to download database for this, I opened following link but could not find sample data file

https://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/2.27/dhis2-demo.zip

Can anyonbe help how can i find it, Secondly I need empty database structure (without data populated in tables), How can i achieve it?

Thanks

RAJA IMRAN QAMER,

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead,

PACE TECHNOLOGIES,

Email:imran@pace-tech.com, rajaimranqamer@gmail.com

Phone: +923345073573, +92512361110

Web: www.pace-tech.com


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users

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Hi

I’m not sure why there is no 2.27 demo yet, but you should be able to use 2.26 also without any issues. As Nayeem is saying, if you have properly setup your dhis.conf, the database will be populated with all the empty tables on startup.

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Nayeem Al Mifthah n.mifthah@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Raja Imran

Once you deploy, database will automatically created by DHIS2.


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users

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Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

Nayeem Al Mifthah
Consultant for HSS, Health MIS, M&E
Email: n.mifthah@gmail.com
Cell:+8801914030574

Skype: nayeem.a.m

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Raja Imran Qamer imran@pace-tech.com wrote:

Dear All,

I have downloaded War file of new released dhis2 (version 2.27), Now i want to download database for this, I opened following link but could not find sample data file

https://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/2.27/dhis2-demo.zip

Can anyonbe help how can i find it, Secondly I need empty database structure (without data populated in tables), How can i achieve it?

Thanks

RAJA IMRAN QAMER,

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead,

PACE TECHNOLOGIES,

Email:imran@pace-tech.com, rajaimranqamer@gmail.com

Phone: +923345073573, +92512361110

Web: www.pace-tech.com


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users

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Link for 2.27 demo has now been fixed, please try again.

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Morten Olav Hansen morten@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi

I’m not sure why there is no 2.27 demo yet, but you should be able to use 2.26 also without any issues. As Nayeem is saying, if you have properly setup your dhis.conf, the database will be populated with all the empty tables on startup.

Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Nayeem Al Mifthah n.mifthah@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Raja Imran

Once you deploy, database will automatically created by DHIS2.


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users

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Email: n.mifthah@gmail.com
Cell:+8801914030574

Skype: nayeem.a.m

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Raja Imran Qamer imran@pace-tech.com wrote:

Dear All,

I have downloaded War file of new released dhis2 (version 2.27), Now i want to download database for this, I opened following link but could not find sample data file

https://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/2.27/dhis2-demo.zip

Can anyonbe help how can i find it, Secondly I need empty database structure (without data populated in tables), How can i achieve it?

Thanks

RAJA IMRAN QAMER,

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead,

PACE TECHNOLOGIES,

Email:imran@pace-tech.com, rajaimranqamer@gmail.com

Phone: +923345073573, +92512361110

Web: www.pace-tech.com


Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users

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Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

Downloads - DHIS2

Documentation and Javadocs

Resources - DHIS2

Upgrade notes

DHIS 2.27 Overview - DHIS2

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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http://dhis2.org

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

···

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo

Norway: +4791880522

Skype: knutstar

http://dhis2.org

Ok there might be an oversight or a bug. Lars is on holiday this week, but you could report it on Jira.

Knut

···

On Jun 6, 2017 11:31 AM, “Absolom MURAMIRA” absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Knut Staring

Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo

Norway: +4791880522

Skype: knutstar

http://dhis2.org

Yes, please report all bugs to jira.dhis2.org (that should be the number one place to report them anyways, unless you are unsure)

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Knut

Ok there might be an oversight or a bug. Lars is on holiday this week, but you could report it on Jira.


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Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

On Jun 6, 2017 11:31 AM, “Absolom MURAMIRA” absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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http://dhis2.org

Dear Morten,

I hope JIRA is active again now. I have reported a number of issues but got no response / feedback yet.

Timothy

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Morten Olav Hansen morten@dhis2.org wrote:

Yes, please report all bugs to jira.dhis2.org (that should be the number one place to report them anyways, unless you are unsure)


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Knut

Ok there might be an oversight or a bug. Lars is on holiday this week, but you could report it on Jira.


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On Jun 6, 2017 11:31 AM, “Absolom MURAMIRA” absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Skype: knutstar

http://dhis2.org

Hi Timothy

Depending on the severity on the bug, it might be downgraded. The JIRA issues tracker is not a fast track. We get a lot of bugs/requests coming in all the time, and we need to prioritise them, and this is especially true for components that only have 1-2 maintainers.

If there is no response for a substantial amount of time, please feel free to message us on this list and give the JIRA number, maybe we can either fast track it, or give a more detailed reasons why we can not easily fix your bug.

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Timothy Kiyemba tkiyemba@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Morten,

Timothy

I hope JIRA is active again now. I have reported a number of issues but got no response / feedback yet.

Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Morten Olav Hansen morten@dhis2.org wrote:

Yes, please report all bugs to jira.dhis2.org (that should be the number one place to report them anyways, unless you are unsure)


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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Knut

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On Jun 6, 2017 11:31 AM, “Absolom MURAMIRA” absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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Dear Morten,

Thanks a lot for the response and apologies for my delayed reply, been caught up in a number of things lately. Please refer to issue DHIS2-1721. I can view feedback on other issues apart from that one. "Cannot view attributes in list under tracker capture even after selecting them in the program. This seems to work well at initial set up of which variables to appear on the list when setting up a program for the first time but any changes made thereafter on the attributes selected are not selected e.g. if one wants to include more variables on the list. I was able to reproduce this on the demo and provided some screenshots under JIRA.

Kind regards

Timothy

···

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Morten Olav Hansen morten@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi Timothy

Depending on the severity on the bug, it might be downgraded. The JIRA issues tracker is not a fast track. We get a lot of bugs/requests coming in all the time, and we need to prioritise them, and this is especially true for components that only have 1-2 maintainers.

If there is no response for a substantial amount of time, please feel free to message us on this list and give the JIRA number, maybe we can either fast track it, or give a more detailed reasons why we can not easily fix your bug.

Morten Olav Hansen

Senior Engineer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

http://www.dhis2.org

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Timothy Kiyemba tkiyemba@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Morten,

Timothy

I hope JIRA is active again now. I have reported a number of issues but got no response / feedback yet.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Morten Olav Hansen morten@dhis2.org wrote:

Yes, please report all bugs to jira.dhis2.org (that should be the number one place to report them anyways, unless you are unsure)


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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Knut

Ok there might be an oversight or a bug. Lars is on holiday this week, but you could report it on Jira.


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On Jun 6, 2017 11:31 AM, “Absolom MURAMIRA” absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you Knut.

The reason why i asked this was because when i tried to test the new version, i realized that the relationships in tracker had disappeared/broken. I am going to reset it up on my testing server just to make sure that it was not from the database restoration process and get back to you.

Thanks.

Absolom

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:03 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Absolom,

Some upgrades do not need any SQL script.

Regards,

Knut

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Absolom MURAMIRA absolom_m@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Lars,

Thank you for the hard work and effort you have invested in this project. One quick question! Is there an upgrade script from v2.26 to v2.27? This is not indicated in the upgrade notes.

Thank you.

Absolom

On Friday, June 2, 2017 1:45 PM, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi all,

DHIS version 2.27 is out with many new features, apps and improvements.

Log in with admin/district on the demo system.

ANALYTICS FEATURES


Period and organisation unit drill-down: The Pivot Table app now supports drill-down (and up) for periods and organisation unit. This means that you can, for example, drill down from yearly periods to quarters, months and weeks inside the pivot table. You can also drill down from the global organisation unit to countries, provinces and facilities.

Demo | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Organisation unit levels as columns: When downloading a pivot table with organisation units as rows and the “Show hierarchy” option enabled in the options dialog, each organisation unit level is rendered as a separate column. This is useful for example when you create Excel pivot tables on a local computer.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Hide empty columns: The Pivot Table app now lets you hide empty columns in the table. You enable this in the Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Legend by data element: In the Pivot Table app, you can now color the table cells according to each data element or indicator individually. You enable this in the Table options dialog by setting legend to “By data item”.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Row and column % in pivots tables: In the Pivot Table app you can now display values as percentages of row total or percentage of column total (instead of the aggregated value). This is useful in order to see the contribution of data elements, categories and organisation units to the total value. You enable this in Table options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

100% stacked column charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now display 100% stacked column charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Cumulative values in line charts: In the Data Visualizer app you can now create line charts with cumulative values. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Chart title handling: In the Data Visualizer app you can now control the chart title and subtitle, in terms of hiding or displaying the as well as specifying custom titles. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Hide missing values handling: The Data Visualizer app now offers better control over hiding of missing values. You can choose between “Before first value”, “After last value” and “Before first and after last value”. This is useful for example when creating column and bar charts. You enable this in the Chart options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

EPI weeks: The system now supports various weekly period types, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as the first day of the week. Data can be collected through data sets configured to use the desired weekly period type. The analytics engine will attribute weekly data to the month which contains four days or more of the week.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Group set flexibility: Data element groups and organisation unit groups can now be be part of any number of group sets. This allows for increased flexibility in analysis. This change also allows for persisting the “All items” checkbox as part of favorites in analytics apps.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs org unit group set | Docs data element group set

Attribute option combos in indicators: You can now specify data elements together with attribute option combinations in indicator expressions. This is useful e.g. to compare targets vs results, or the performance of various programs in indicator calculations. UI support is not yet there, attribute option combos can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Reporting rates in indicators: Indicator now allows for specifying reporting rates and actual reports in expressions. This is useful e.g. to adjust for data completeness in performance indicators. UI support is not yet there, reporting rates can be entered directly in the expression, see the docs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs

Favorites and interpretations in event analytics apps: The new, file-based favorite solution has been introduced in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps, similar to the solution in for example the Pivot Table app. This means that you can now also create and share interpretations for event reports and event charts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program category dimensions in event analytics apps: The Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps let you use program categories and category option group sets as dimensions for tables and charts. This applies for programs with category combinations.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Multiple legend sets per data element: In Event reports and Event Visualizer apps you can aggregate events by multiple legend sets per data element. This becomes useful e.g. with age groups. You can collect age in years as part of an event and then aggregate into various age groups, i.e. by 10 year intervals or 15 year intervals. This way, data can be collected once and later used to satisfy multiple reporting needs.

Demo 1 | 2 | Screenshot 1 | 2 | Docs

Program and event status: You can now filter data by program status and event status in the Event Reports and Event Visualizer apps. You can set these filters from the options dialog.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs Event Visualizer app | Docs Event Reports app

Program stage count in indicators: Program indicators support a variable for counting the number of events for a program stage.

Screenshot | Docs

Most viewed favorites: Event reports and event visualizer provides links to your most popular favorites on the start page.

Demo | Screenshot

TRACKER FEATURES


Program rule improvements: A completely new user interface for managing program rules has been introduced in the Maintenance app. A range of new program rule actions is now supported in the new user interface:

  • Assign value. Enables client side calculations.
  • Display text. Enables the web client to display text in the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Display key/value pair. Enables the web client to display a information box with a title and value in either the indicator or feedback widgets.
  • Make field mandatory. Enables program rules to turn a field mandatory based on rule expression.

Other improvements include the ability to delete and change program rule variables(source fields), and the ability to include one data element in several program rule variables. For all warning and error messages it will now be possible to include a dynamic/calculated part at the end of the static error message.

Demo | Screenshot setup | Rule expression | Rule action | Tracker capture | Docs

Event programs in Maintenance app: The Maintenance app now supports management of event programs. This includes new UI for creating event programs, organisation unit assignment, sections, custom forms and notifications. The create program screen is designed as wizard where the program can be configured across several steps. Tracker type programs is still located in the old Programs/Attributes app.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Program indicators in Maintenance app: Program indicators can now be managed in the Maintenance app. The new UI lets you create indicators across three steps and provides a simpler way of creating expressions and filters.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Person search order: In the Tracker Capture app, you can now sort the list of tracked entity instances by each column in the search.

Demo | Screenshot

GENERAL FEATURES


Sharing dialog: A new dialog for sharing of metadata is now available in the Maintenance app, offering a better and simpler user experience.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

Notification modes: Validation rule notifications can now be sent as individual messages or as message summaries. This is useful e.g. when you want to send individual messages for high-priority disease outbreaks, and summaries for low-priority routine data validation errors.

Demo | Docs

Sliding windows in validation: Validation rules can now calculate data based on sliding time windows. This implies that data is evaluated not just for fixed periods, such as weeks, but also for sliding intervals of the same duration, e.g. Wednesday to Thursday.

Demo | Docs

Improved password security: The system now provides greater security and control over passwords. This can be enabled under System Settings > Access.

  • Email notifications can be sent out to users 14 days before their password expires and must be changed.
  • The minimum number of characters in passwords is configurable and can be between 8 and 14.
  • Password must contain a mix of at least three characters from the following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special (non-alphanumeric).
  • When changing passwords, users cannot use any of the 24 previously used passwords.

Screenshot | Docs Users app | Docs System Settings app

Cloud storage for resources: Resource (files and links, found in the Reports app > Resources) can now be configured and be backed by a cloud storage provider such as AWS S3. This allows for infinite storage of files. This requires that you’ve configures a cloud store in dhis.conf.
Note: if you’ve configured cloud storage in dhis.conf, all files you upload or the files system generates will use cloud storage, not only resources.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs | Cloud file store setup docs

Improved metadata export: Metadata export with dependencies now supports data element groups and dashboards.

Demo | Docs

Data store manager: A new app is available which lets you manage the content of the web API data stores. This is helpful when managing apps and external scripts.

Demo | Screenshot | Docs

SERVER ADMIN FEATURES


Memcached support: You can now use memcached as an application cache provider. This allows for greater scalability as memcached can be hosted on a separate server off-heap.

Docs

WEB API FEATURES


Tracker soft delete: Soft deletion has been introduced for the tracked entity instance and enrollment entities. This gives clients with local databases the opportunity to react on deleted entities.

Docs

Deleted metadata objects log: Deletion of metadata is now logged and can be queried from a new endpoint /api/deletedObjects. This allows clients with local databases to react on deleted metadata objects.

Docs

Email sending: A new endpoint for sending email is introduced at /api/email.

Docs

Min-max data element values: A new endpoint for setting and retrieving min-max data element values is introduced at /api/minMaxDataElements.

Docs

Lock exceptions: A new endpoint which lets you create, retrieve and remove data set lock exceptions is available at /api/lockExceptions.

Docs

Event export identifier schemes: The event export resource for now supported identifier schemes, i.e. allows for use of code as well as identifier.

Docs

RELEASE INFO


Release Information

Link

Download release and sample database

https://www.dhis2.org/ downloads

Documentation and Javadocs

https://www.dhis2.org/ documentation

Upgrade notes

https://www.dhis2.org/227- upgrade

Details about each feature on JIRA

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10257

Overview of fixed issues

https://jira.dhis2.org/issues/ ?filter=10418

Source code on Github

DHIS2 · GitHub

Demo instance

https://play.dhis2.org/demo

Instructions for signing up for DHIS 2 mailing lists

Contact Us - DHIS2

Enjoy the new release.

Best regards,

The DHIS2 development team


Lars Helge Øverland

Lead developer, DHIS 2

University of Oslo

Skype: larshelgeoverland

lars@dhis2.org

http://www.dhis2.org


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