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‘Update on development programme’
Amanda NorrisJulian Fox
Last UG meeting – development prioritisation
• User feedback on data submission
• Website upgrade• User log-on• Menu review• Upgrade online help• Auto-upload of data
• LA Reports– PDFs, Excel, CSV– Regional grouping– Improved
Benchmarking around family groups
• External body reports
• Quarterly question management by LAs
Prioritisation exercise
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• LA default question management– Spec developed
• Auto-upload of data– Most complex to develop, not been taken forward yet
• User notification on data submission– Spec developed
• Reporting review and Data output for external users– Review report delivered, to discuss in break-out.
England user group prioritisation led to:
LA default question
• In development: when first entering data for a period, presented with template
• Template lists all questions available for all authority types
• Each question has tick-box to exclude it for the period• Template saved across periods• Quarter can be rolled up when all included questions
are completed• List will show whether a question is answered or not• Questions in the list hyperlink to data entry
Screen shot of default question
Auto-upload of data
• Most complex of development options receiving support of UG
• Implementation approach will be to make specification available for external parties
• Specification scheduled for development in future
User notification on data submission
• Already implemented for roll-up as part of the queuing process: user receives e-mail when the quarter is rolled up
• Being developed for authorisation levels: as the quarter moves up levels relevant users will be notified
Trigger Diagram
Enter Data
Rolled-up Data 10
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Roll-up
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Okay this data
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Data ReadyFor Review by
LA Admin20
Authorise
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No
Data ReadyFor External
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Data Ready forNational Lvl 2
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National Lvl1approval
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No
National Lvl2approval
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No
Data Ready forNational Lvl 3
review40
Return to level 20 orReturn to level 0
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Report review
• Technical review carried out to find the best way of delivering reports/data from WDF.
• Inputs from User groups, steering group and development team
• Outcome was recommendation to expand the methods used to deliver the BVPI and mass balance reports to deliver all reports
Proposed report mechanism
• Complex equations (such as BVPI) to be pre calculated (known as c-variables in the system)
• Reports are in essence collection of c-variables• Layout and presentation of the data defined in a
Excel spreadsheet, with data from WDF on back tab• Report selection screen allows the user to pick:
– One or many authorities– One or many periods– A group of c-variables (eg BVPI 82a)– An Excel template to push the data onto
Benefits of report mechanism
• Reports allow benchmarking across any number of LAs
• Data in report is in Excel format and so doesn’t require re-entry for further analysis
• Excel template method provides the user with control of final look and feel of the report
Other developments
• The above is a review of the development items from the England user group prioritisation.
• There are several other development tasks competing for time and resources driven by– Core WDF requirements– Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland needs– WDF system maintenance
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