Web dashboard tables (OU filters and some feature requests)

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hi @jamiecarter7

Welcome to the DHIS2 Community of Practice, and thank you so much for posting about the challenges and features you’d like to see while using the DHIS2 Dashboard. The Dashboard app is certainly one of the apps that is continuously being revised, updated, and improved so let’s decided on which points could be feature requests and which ones we might be able to find a solution for.

If I make a suggestion that doesn’t seem to exactly satisfy your expectations, please feel free to add your comments.

@jamiecarter7

so when I log into the state view I want to be able to see the all the individual child districts owned by that state in the table.

To do that in the dashboard, I think you’d need to use two filters. First select the organization unit and then use the level ‘districts’. For example, in the screenshot below, I selected Bo as the organization unit and then selected Chiefdoms, so the dashboard will show me in the tables all the Chiefdoms in the Bo district (or I could instead select level facility):

@jamiecarter7

Currently there is no way to select the ‘sub-unit’ option and select a specific country/state/district…. It would feel more intuitive to be able to use both.

I think the point of having the ‘sub-unit’ option is intended to make the selection specific for the OUs that are accessible to the user instead of selecting a particular OU; whereas but if you want to select a specific OU then you’d use the other option and not the ‘sub-unit’, but anyway, I am sharing this with the functional-design team and see their opinion. Could explain further where’s the complexity in selecting parent and level for specific OUs? Let’s assume that it is possible to select ‘sub-unit’ and then select the specific country/state/district, wouldn’t that be the same as selecting a parent and then a level? BTW, in the dashboard filter, only the OUs that the user has access to will appear.

@jamiecarter7

Is there a way to create a hyperlink, inside the table (or anywhere on the dashboard), that could automatically add a specific filter to a view. In our current dashboard we have this functionality to help the user quickly browse between children but I am unsure if there is a way to replicate this in the DHIS2 dashboard?

That’d actually be a helpful feature. For this specific request, to save filter and have a link to it, would you like to create a feature request using your account on Projects - Jira? (or if you’d like I can create it on your behalf)

On the other hand, at this point, I think that the closest thing to this is to create a dashboard that’s already showing the filters, and since you can have direct links to the dashboard, you will be able to add a link in the other dashboard. To answer your question about adding links, yes, that’s possible by editing the dashboard and selecting the link under ‘Resources’ (but to be honest at this point, I completely forgot how we create these resource links so I will update the post when I do!)

@jamiecarter7

Is there a way to change to icons used in the filter organisation screen so that each level shows its own icon. Selecting from the dropdown menu is challenging because its hard to know what level I have currently selected, I have to count down the number of levels for my selection (for example a district is level 3), then remember to add a ‘level’ that is one level lower (in this case ‘block’ is level 4). Having some level specific icons might help reduce the mental burden during the selection process.

I think it’d be interesting if icons would be helpful for other as well in this case. Would you like to create an additional feature request? Let’s see if other community members vote for it and see the response from the software team on how they could improve the selection process. However, I don’t think you need to remember the numbers since when selecting the level, you’re selecting the word and not the level number unless the naming in the maintenance app of these levels is not properly configured? It’s actually supposed to show you “district” not “level 3” and the same for “block” and not “level 4”.

I hope these help. Looking forward to hearing your reflections. If you do create the feature requests please post them back here so other members can watch/comment/vote.

Thanks!