ActivityInfo

ActivityInfo 2.6 released!

Alex — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:46:38 +0000

We’re happy to announce the release of ActivityInfo 2.6, which features a new dashboard and improvements to the reporting tools.

Save commonly-used tables, charts, and maps

Is there a pivot table you need every month?

In the “Reports” tab, choose “New Pivot Table” and then define your table as usual. Once you’re done, click “Save” and give your table a title. You can now find this report on the main page of the “Reports” tab.

Once your table is saved as a report, you can subscribe to it on a weekly or monthly basis: ActivityInfo will send you an updated version of the table by email on the schedule you choose. Click “Email Options” in the main page of the “Reports” tab.

Personalize your dashboard

You can also pin the tables, charts, and maps you need the most to your personal dashboard. Toggle the ‘star’ next to the name of the report in the Reports tab. Now you’ll see the report each time you open ActivityInfo.

Design complete reports for your program or cluster

We’ve added a complete report editor so that you can combine tables, charts, and maps together into a single report. Click on new “Custom Report” from the Reports Tab. You’ll see a print preview of your report. Click the “Add …” buttons to add elements to the report. You can always edit them later by double clicking the chart, table, or map.

ActivityInfo updated; version 2.5

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:25:09 +0000

Hi all!

First of all, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year! The first week of 2012 starts for ActivityInfo with a new release today, ActivityInfo 2.5 with several new features and updates. Secondly, the new website went online today, providing more information on how to use ActivityInfo. To directly login, use button “Login” in the upper right corner of the screen. To get you jumpstarted in the new version 2.5, hereby a quick overview of a few of the extra features online today:

Charts: Easily create piecharts, diagrammes and line graphs from your databases. Step-by-step guide

Attaching Documents: Upon entering new intervention sites as well as to older interventions, one can add attachments to the interventions, for example a document or picture. Step-by-step guide

Choosing Locations: When adding a new activity site, you now have the chance to select an existing school or village, allowing you and fellow cluster members to link several activities to a single school or village. This makes it possible to track assistance from a multi-sectoral perspective. Step-by-step guide

Cartography: The mapping section has been updated in an earlier release, but if you have missed it:

It is now possible to use different base maps (for example: health zones, administrative zones as well as different google maps, TIP: check google terrain maps in detail for elevation levels!), and add as many information layers as needed. One can display information of ones indicators in icons, piecharts or proportional circles. The created maps can be exported to powerpoint, pdf, as image or in word, to be used for example in reports or presentations. Step-by-step guide

Offline mode: Offline mode improved in an earlier release, but if you have missed this one too: It is possible to work online or offline when connections are not available and synchronize whenever a connection becomes available. Step-by-step guide

With kind regards,

the ActivityInfo team at bedatadriven!

Handwashing awareness raising in North Kivu

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:07:39 +0000

Providing access to safe water and sanitation facilities, and promoting proper hygiene behavior are important in reducing the burden of disease from sanitation and hygiene-related diseases. The WASH cluster in North Kivu uses ActivityInfo to track activities and training regarding clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion of all humanitarian actors involved.

The plage du peuple – Goma

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:46:18 +0000

The plage du peuple is where the people of the quartier come out to wash, do laundry and get drinking water. UNICEF and their partners conduct many WASH projects in the region. ActivityInfo enables all partners to keep these activities on target despite working in a complex environment related to different humanitarian sectors and actors involved.

New website

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:39:50 +0000

Today the new website has been launched online. The current website contains information about ActivityInfo, but over the next two months several pages and extras will be added. The website will be enriched with a comprehensive resources section, which will include: 1. Tutorials for ActivityInfo, 2. How-to guides with step by step procedures, 3. Case studies and 4. a Library containing information, best practices and standards regarding humanitarian information management, monitoring and indicators.

Furthermore, a French translation of the entire site will be online by December, currently the website is set in English only. Upon request extra language options can be added too in the future.

If you already have questions, do not hesitate and drop us a line!

NFI Cluster in South Kivu

Alex — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:05:17 +0000

The NFI cluster in South Kivu uses ActivityInfo to track and coordinate distributions to tens of thousands of people affected by conflict and natural disasters.

Data Entry

Alex — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:18 +0000

Enter and update results with a familiar Excel-like gridNone technical project managers can easily define databases and indicators
Indicators and definitions of the database can be changed whenever the project’s framework evolves
Export frameworks to word (under development)

Offline capable

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:59:17 +0000

Users can use the web application offline and synchronise when connection is available

Ensure geo-referenced data entry

Alex — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:58:37 +0000

Select the geographic position of sites visually with the map or by entering GPS coordinates in any format.

Pivot tables

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:57:21 +0000

Fast pivot table to summarize results, filter pivot tables by any dimension, with exports to excelFast pivot table to summarize results with exports to excel
Quick overview for project managers
Filter pivot tables by any dimension