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  1. What is Enterprise?

    Enterprise was designed to enable seamless data flows between project-level instances of DevResults and headquarters instances of DevResults. "Enterprise" is our name for that set of linked DevResults sites. What does Enterprise offer, and...
  2. Enterprise: Add Users to Linked Sites

    Owners of enterprise sites have three options for how to manage users on linked sites.  Add users to individual linked sites Add users to linked sites from the enterprise site Enable enterprise users to access linked sites automaticall...
  3. Enterprise: Copying Indicators using the Indicator Library

    One of the perks of our enterprise setups is that you can use your enterprise site's Indicators Index as a Global Indicator Library, copying indicators (and their related disaggregations, etc.) directly to any linked site. This has several advan...
  4. Certifying and Publishing your Data to Another Site

    Scenario:  Your DevResults site is set up to report data to another DevResults site. An owner has set up some links between the two sites. How do you report that data to the other DevResults site?  Certify : Once data has been submitte...
  5. Manage Fiscal Years

    Defining fiscal years will let you create reports that aggregate results by year where the year might start on an arbitrary day, like October 1st. Every reporting cycle is associated with one fiscal year. Most programs operate with one fiscal year ...
  6. Define a Reporting Cycle

    Reporting cycles let you establish the frequency with which different activities report on different indicators. For example, imagine that your DevResults site has only annual and quarterly reporting cycles, but you have a new indicator that should...
  7. Assign a Reporting Cycle to an Indicator for an Activity

    When an indicator is assigned to an activity, the assignment comes with that indicator's default reporting cycle . For example, you might have an indicator that is reported quarterly by most activities (so "quarterly" is the indicator...
  8. Define a Reporting Period

    DevResults offers several tools for defining reporting periods: Create or edit a single reporting period Create or edit multiple reporting periods using an Excel upload Note:  Any user whose group includes View & Edit per...
  9. How is Data Table Information Assigned to Reporting Periods?

    When an indicator's results are calculated from a data table, rows of the data table get assigned to a reporting period based on:  The date in the data table row (in the column defined as the indicator's date column ) The activity r...
  10. Diagnostics

    If you administer or configure a DevResults site and you can't figure out why something isn't working or you want to check that other people are setting things up properly, check out the Diagnostics page. This page exists to help you find ...