DHIS 2 End-user Manual

DHIS2 Documentation Team

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Table of Contents

1. Getting started with DHIS 2 as end-user
1.1. Getting started with DHIS2
1.2. Opening DHIS 2
1.3. Logging in and out of the application
1.4. Navigating the application
1.4.1. The top menu - access to the modules
1.4.2. Navigation inside modules
2. Data entry
2.1. Learning Objectives
2.2. Data entry with DHIS 2
2.2.1. Selecting the data entry form
2.2.2. Entering data
2.2.3. Validating data in the form
2.2.4. Offline data entry
2.2.5. Multi-organisation unit data entry
3. Using Data Quality functionality
3.1. Overview of data quality checks
3.2. Data quality checks
3.3. Running Validation Rule Analysis
3.4. Std Dev Outlier Analysis
3.5. Min-Max Outlier Analysis
3.6. Gap Analysis
3.7. Follow-Up Analysis
4. Introduction to indicators
4.1. Indicators
4.2. Indicator types
5. Using reporting functionality
5.1. Reporting functionality in DHIS 2
5.2. Using standard reports
5.3. Using report tables
5.4. Using dataset reports
5.5. Using resources
5.6. Using data visualizer
5.7. Using the dashboard
5.8. Using reporting rate summary
5.9. Using organisation unit distribution reports
5.10. Using web pivot table
5.11. Using data mart management
6. Using Pivot Table
6.1. Pivot Table overview
6.2. Selecting dimension items
6.3. Arranging the table layout
6.4. Using table options
6.5. Creating a favorite
6.6. Downloading data
6.7. Constraints
7. Using Data Visualizer
7.1. Data Visualizer overview
7.2. Selecting chart type
7.3. Selecting series, category and filter
7.4. Selecting indicators and data elements
7.5. Selecting reporting rates
7.6. Selecting relative periods
7.7. Selecting fixed periods
7.8. Selecting organisation units
7.9. Selecting organisation unit groups
7.10. Selecting chart options
7.11. Displaying a chart
7.12. Displaying a data table
7.13. Downloading chart as image or PDF
7.14. Saving chart as favorite
7.15. Sharing interpretations
7.16. Exiting the data visualizer module
8. Using GIS
8.1. GIS module overview
8.2. Thematic mapping
8.2.1. Boundary layer
8.2.2. Thematic layer 1 and 2
8.2.3. Facility layer
8.3. Tools
8.3.1. Favorite maps
8.3.2. Create predefined legend sets
8.3.3. Download map as image
8.3.4. Share map interpretation
9. Dashboards
9.1. Setting up the dashboard
9.2. Messages and feedback
10. Using MyDatamart
10.1. The Mydatamart application
10.1.1. Maintaining the local datamart

List of Figures

10.1. Mydatamart on first open
10.2. Creating a new datamart
10.3. Logging in to dhis2 server
10.4. Setting analysis parameters
10.5. Downloading data