🍬 New Chance to Get the CoP Testing Badges, DAC2025 Topics Popularity, and More! (#CoPMonthly - May 2025)

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

In the copmonthly post, we are proud to highlight community member’s participation and give them recognition for their contributions, and as a monthly post, we keep in touch with the entire global community.

Give your May a boost with these two treats:

• New DHIS2 testing campaign where you can get Testing badges: DHIS2 Campaign Enhancements User Feedback
• You can now monitor DAC2025 Innovations Topics Popularity

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For this post (May 2025), here’s what we will talk about today:

• Top Topics:

  • Top Topics from April 2025

• Top Active Members of April 2025 (new slideshow format)

• Thankful note to all helpful community members:

  • Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
  • Feature Finders
  • Bug Hunters

• cop Monthly Challenge

• copmonthly Map

• We’re Almost There! (topics that need a little more support - will be posted as a separate post)

Top Topics from April 2025

There have been quite a number of DAC2025 Innovations posted, so to find the topics of interest quickly, check out the weekly round up posts: April 11, April 18, April 25, May 02 and more to come!

Additionally, these topics received quite the attention and love of the community:

Transforming Health Through Data at Bahi Health Centre

At Bahi Health Centre, an inspiring transformation has taken place, driven by the power of data management and a commitment to action. Thanks to targeted initiatives from the District of Excellence (DoE), the team empowered its staff with essential data skills on how to utilize data collected in digital platforms, in particular DHIS2 HMIS, leading to ground-breaking changes in healthcare for the community. In July-September 2024, routine analysis of monthly health data revealed a concerning tr…

Climate is now integrated into the public DHIS2 HMIS demo instance

We’re happy to announce that climate is now integrated into our public HMIS demo – with a new dashboard for climate & malaria, climate data sets and the latest version of the DHIS2 Climate app installed. [Screenshot 2025-04-14 at 18.20.10] Login details: URL: https://demos.dhis2.org/hmis User: demo_climate Password: District1# We’re grateful to the Uganda national malaria control program for their partnership in co-designing the climate & malaria dashboard, which served as the inspiration…

Are there topics from April 2025 that you found interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why you found it interesting or important.

Top 10 Active Members in April 2025

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(Tagging here all the top ten active users in April2025 so they receive a notification - @Eng.Ali_Hameed @nnkogift @ramavat @gregory @joneslikoro @Mr_jorge @Shamsdine_Ndaw @Mohd_Nawaz @elmoujarrade @ericchingalo)

Thank you!

This is the heart of the post as much as it’s the heart of the community - our helpful community members’ contributions.

Helpful Members in April 2025

• Thankful note to all helpful community members:
  • Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
  • Feature finders
  • Bug hunters

And thanks to all helpful members (April 2024),

Good Samaritans (voluntarily helping other community members)

Without Good Samaritans, there’s no community! We are very thankful to all users for contributing to the CoP especially when helping other users. Samaritans, thank you for making others feel at home!
@Norah_Stoops | @Quoda | @BabaSambo | @SamuelJohnson | @Abumere_Ejakhegbe | @ericchingalo | @Truong_Nguyen | @Mr_jorge | @Shamsdine_Ndaw | @Bold_Experience | @yukke2tanaka | @ Hannan | @zforce | @MiquelAdell | @abdimohammed | @akashjindal | @jnakibuuka | @lawrencebyson | @ejimba | @Edward_Robinson | @gregory | @joneslikoro |

Bug Hunters

Many users who faced issues and discussed them with the community were very helpful in finding bugs. These bug hunters create Jira issues (with link to the CoP post) and support the development of DHIS2.
@mkannan | @lismail | @Eng.Ali_Hameed | @didate | @ericchingalo | @joao.machiana | @bsiele | @nasha | @fernando | @m.siusko | @Neeraj_Gupta

Feature Finders

We do tag feature finders in every copmonthly so if you have features that you’d like to share and discuss with the community feel free to make a post, and follow the instructions to add ideas into the software roadmap process.
@jthomas | @nnkogift |

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DHIS2-Challenges:

In last month’s challenge, the first person to vote for the correct answer was: @Mayamiko Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here. All who participated receive the CoP Activity Winner badge today.

The challenge for this month (April 2025):

For all the Dashboards enthusiasts

Which of the following objects can be added to a dashboard? (Select all that apply.)

• A. Pivot table
• B. Chart
• C. Map
• D. Report
• E. Text (e.g. messages, interpretations, text boxes)

BTW, reply with a comment if you can add more items!

[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]

HINT:

This question is from the Module 5 - Using and sharing dashboards within the Aggregate Data Analysis Fundamentals digital self-paced course, Aggregate Data Analysis Fundamentals | DHIS2 Online Academy

copmonthly map

April 2025 Monthly Map for Helpful and Active CoP Members

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Want to be added to the copmonthly map?

1. Complete your profile info (profile picture + country)
2. Members with the above info are tagged in the map when they help other community members

UP NEXT:

Stay tuned as we’re posting a new topic post in our new CoP help-solve topic series: Help Solve These Community Questions!

[m.siusko (Mikhailo Siusko)]

Also it is possible to add Apps (e.g. Interractive Scorecard Widget) and Resources (e.g. uploaded files)

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Yes, you’re right @m.siusko! It’s also possible to add resources and widgets, and great news is that in 42 plugins too! Plugin Architecture has been introduced … so here’s the complete list: https://docs.dhis2.org/en/use/user-guides/dhis-core-version-241/analysing-data/dashboards.html#adding-items-to-the-dashboard:~:text=Resources-,Third%20party%20plugins,-and%20app%20widgets

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

@Gassim

The challenge for this month (April 2025):

For all the Dashboards enthusiasts

Which of the following objects can be added to a dashboard? (Select all that apply.)

Hi (@ericchingalo @joneslikoro @jthomas @m.siusko @Mayamiko @Mbevi @nnkogift @Shapr0019)

Thank you for participating in the challenge. All who participated receive the CoP Activity Winner badge. The correct answer was all the objects mentioned can be added to the dashboard (and more!).

Remember to check out the new challenge (if you haven’t already) - just a hint only two voters have got the correct answer to this point : Strengthen Your DHIS2 Experience - #CoPMonthly – June 2025