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  1. Mapping Functionality

    What mapping tools and features are offered in DevResults? DevResults mapping features are designed to enforce good data management practices by requiring that all indicator results are associated with a place, whether that place is a single faci...
  2. Formatting Text

    DevResults enables you to format text in narrative fields using a system called Markdown. Markdown uses simple characters to create emphasis, lists, headers, links, and images. If you use forms to generate reports from DevResults, the exported W...
  3. Dashboard Tile: Progress to Target

    The Progress to Global Target and Progress to Activity Target dashboard tiles display icons for your choice of indicators to show how well you're doing against your targets.  Progress to Global Target Progress to Activity Target ...
  4. 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: DevR...
  5. 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 ...
  6. Setting access and permissions by OU

      Key points Users can be granted access to projects based on the OU that the users and projects belong to.  However, permissions can be more specific if needed, e.g. an OU has a sensitive project that not everyone at that OU should be abl...
  7. 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...
  8.  Video Tutorial: Partner Training

    Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Key points from the video Context The goal of using DevResults is to make data entry easier for partners and to make information useful for decision-making. When data is entered into DevResults, ma...
  9. 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 document th...
  10. GDPR: Tips and Tools

    The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect on May 25, 2018, is pushing organizations (private, public, and non-profit) to reconsider the ways in which they collect, store, use, and disseminate personall...