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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. Find and Merge Duplicate Locations

    Chances are that sometimes, you or other users accidentally create duplicates of existing locations--maybe a slight difference in how the location is spelled, or its coordinates, or maybe its code. Our  Merge Duplicate Locations tool will help you ...
  3. Update Administrative Divisions

    DevResults generally acquires maps for your country or countries from the publicly available files at gadm.org or HDX/humdata.org . If the information we have provided is inaccurate or out of date, your team would need to provide the geospatial...
  4. Define a Location

    DevResults offers several tools for defining locations: Create or edit single location Create or edit multiple locations using an Excel upload Edit multiple locations from the location index Notes: Any user whose group includ...
  5. About KML Files

    KML files contain the geographic information that forms the Administrative Division shapes on your DevResults site. DevResults requires that data be associated with places (either points or areas) and geographic shapes are required to define the s...
  6. Which Administrative Division Levels Should I Use?

    In DevResults, Administrative Divisions refer to areas on a map, represented by shapes. These generally include the national borders of the country/countries for your site, and may include several additional layers of smaller, nested administrativ...
  7. Interacting with Data Tables

    Most users work with several thousand records in individual data tables. Much like Excel, DevResults allows you to interact with data tables to search for specific records, filter columns for specific information, and sort columns to group certain...
  8. How are Activities Linked to Data Tables?

    When a data table is 'linked' to an activity, it appears in the data table dropdown menu for an activity's reporting period. This allows the activity — and especially the activity's partners — to report information in the data table. Data structu...
  9. Create a Data Table

    Data Tables in DevResults allow you to directly upload spreadsheets of individual-level records and other raw data like tables of organizations, policies, and events. Data tables can have as many columns as you want, including text fields th...
  10. Who Has Access to Data Tables

    For all users, data table access is first determined by the user's permissions group. Two permission areas govern access to data tables, and each user group can defined with an option for each area: The Data Table Contributor permission area g...