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  1. Add Map Overlays

    The Goal: You would like to display additional map features as context for the geographic focus of your work, such as rivers, roads, or conservation areas. You do not need to collect or report data against these features. The Solution: DevRes...
  2. Video Tutorial: How to Limit Geography Options in Data Tables

    Context Some DevResults sites include may locations and administrative divisions. When adding data to a data table, this can make the drop-down menu difficult to use. This video shows how to limit the geographies available in a data table to...
  3. Navigating DevResults

    DevResults uses a consistent page layout to make navigation easy and intuitive. Below you can find detail on some of the common user interface elements: Landing page Main menu Secondary menus (for activities and indicators) Quick search ...
  4. How to Use Forms

    The "Forms" tab in DevResults offers some basic tools to help you create reports, briefings, letters, forms, or other paperwork in Microsoft Word. Forms in DevResults work like Microsoft Word's Mail Merge. First, you create a template...
  5. Form Templates: Indicator

    The Forms tab in DevResults offers some basic tools to help you create reports in Microsoft Word (or PDFs). You can create form templates for activities, for a single reporting period/activity combination, and for indicators. This page provides pl...
  6. Change History

    DevResults provides a detailed log of all changes made to a site, including information on who made the change and at what time.  To access the site history click on "Change History" under Tools : The change history can be filte...
  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 Stakeholder ...
  8. IATI: Supported elements

    DevResults supports the export of activity and organization data in XML format according to the IATI Data Standard. Below is a list of the activity and organization elements currently available for export. Supporting additional IATI elements will be...
  9. IATI: Configure your site for IATI exports

    All of the world's major donors have agreed to publish their data using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. Many now require that grantees and recipients report back to them in IATI format. DevResults supports one-cl...
  10. Dates in Excel

    Having trouble with dates? Excel stores dates behind the scenes as the number of days since 1 Jan 1900. For example, 31 Dec 2020 is 44196. DevResults is only capable of reading that number or producing that number. It doesn't matter how your d...