This is the tenth public release of USAID's NTD Database (v.1.10 dated June 27, 2014), managed by ENVISION. This release continues the core features for maintaining, managing, and reporting data included in Program and Disease workbook templates.
Features:
The following major features are available to users depending on their assigned roles in the NTD Database:
- Creating, editing and managing user profiles
- Managing geography, including creating, editing and deleting regions and districts
- Managing blank workbook templates
- Generating workbooks to be completed by other users
- Downloading workbook templates to be completed offline
- Submitting completed workbook templates
- Tracking the status of data submissions
- Reviewing and approving data submissions
- Editing data submissions online
- Requesting approval of a data submission from the Ministry of Health
- Creating and viewing reports of approved/not yet approved data and downloading report data
- Accessing the online context-sensitive User Guide
- Accessing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their answers
- Accessing other relevant resources
System Requirements:
Supported web browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher, Mozilla Firefox 15 or higher, Google Chrome 22 or higher, Apple Safari S4 or higher
Supported spreadsheet software:
- Microsoft Excel 2013
- Microsoft Excel 2010
Known Issues:
Issues Addressed in This Release:
- The Report Builder was updated to use EazyBi v. 2.1(link is external). This resolved one known issue related to report labels being truncated in report output in Report Builder.
- The Drupal core and components were updated to the latest versions to improve security and stability.
- Prevalence values that are entered into workbooks as a range, and/or include symbols, such as 20-50%, or >50% are now uploaded into the database
- In the updated Mozambique FY13 2nd SAR Program Workbook that was generated by the database, data were missing from the historical tab. These data were in the original submission workbook and in the database, just not in the updated workbook that's generated from the database. The bug in the language translation system that cased this to occur has been corrected. Existing submissions that were affected by this bug were corrected by editing the affected disease names in the database to the matching English entry (e.g. Tracoma to Trachoma)
- The Track my submissions page has been modified. Submitters now see only their own submissions and submissions from their country when edits have been requested at the country level. Other users who may submit data see only their own submissions.
- In the Persons treated, Program Coverage, Epidemiologic Coverage Report the column header for District now appears when selecting to aggregate at District level. When aggregating at District level, “at least one NTD” is now correctly generated for each District.
- On the M&E Assessments Report the issue of when a user selects “all years” in report parameters no data was returned as been fixed. In addition, for the Disease Mapping Report, the issue related to incomplete data showing when selecting “all years” in report parameters has been fixed.
- Standard reports have been adjusted to use data only from the most recently updated workbook submission.
Bug Reports and Support:
Please send reports of any problems you encounter with the NTD Database to:
Tutorials and Help Pages:
For anticipated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their answers, see the FAQ page. For complete instructions on using the NTD Database, consult the User Guide
Resources:
For other resources related to the NTD Database, see the Resources page.