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  1. Integrating Mobile Data Collection Tools

    DevResults can work with any mobile data collection tool (MDCT) to import raw data, survey responses, and other information directly into a DevResults data table. Once imported, DevResults handles indicator calculations for this external...
  2. Geography Glossary

    Geographies define where  projects take place and results are achieved. All DevResults indicator data must be associated with a geography. In this article: What Are Geographies? How Are Geographies Used? How Do I Map Other Geographic Da...
  3. Archive and Export Options

    Many DevResults users want to or are required to export and download copies of their data, either to conduct offline data analysis, purely for archival purposes, or something in between. This article provides an overview of the options available, ...
  4. 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 permission...
  5. Data Submission & Approval Process

    DevResults has a built-in submission and approval process for each reporting period, for each project. Each of a project's reporting periods will move through five statuses: No Data:  This is the initial status for each reporting period for e...
  6. Submitting Help Tickets

    DevResults supports users via a Helpdesk, a shared platform that is staffed by one engineer and one data team member at all times. You can read more about our Helpdesk on our blog. On this page:  How to submit help tickets How to write go...
  7. Change Management Toolkit

    Change management is hard. We've developed a range of tools to help with the people-side of implementing DevResults. Principles and best practices Responsibilities matrix Permissions matrix Roadmap for data management ...
  8. Qualitative Data

    "Qualitative data" means many things to many people. In general, the term "qualitative data" covers information that is non-numerical in nature, usually collected through surveys, focus groups, interviews, written comments, etc. Depending on your ...
  9. Data Table Row Locking

    DevResults provides a data submission and approval process that ensures that after direct entry indicator data has been submitted and approved, it can no longer be edited by users with limited permissions. With the data table row locking featu...
  10. Project Metadata

    DevResults allows users to visualize metadata for your project portfolio. These tools let you create matrix reports and pie charts for counts of your projects by geography, status, mechanism, framework, sector, tag, user, organization, and other p...