User feedback in AidStream

A month ago, on April 8th, I helped a group of Dutch NGOs get to grips with AidStream, as part of the Partos IATI programme. As always, itโ€™s very informative to see unsuspecting users try to make sense of a new tool. It resulted in a list of observations, often easy fixes, that can make life a little easier or more pleasant.

AidStreamThat same week, the AidStream code base was published on Github, and I had a chance to participate in the team check-in, and report a bunch of these observations as issues.

Weโ€™re hardly a month later, and Iโ€™m glad to see a steady flow of notifications of issues being closed:

  • The workflow status โ€œEditโ€ is now called โ€œDraftโ€, to avoid confusion with the action โ€œeditโ€.
  • When you add a new activity, you now see descriptive values (โ€œReporting Organisation Type: National NGOโ€) instead of code list values (โ€œ22โ€ณ).
  • The template file to upload transactions works properly now (you actually can choose a simpler template now as well).
  • Your own internal reference numbers for transactions are now shown in the transactions list.
  • The exotic โ€œLinked Data Defaultโ€ field is hidden (at the moment, only Unicef seems to publish this, with valueโ€ฆ โ€œโ€).

So if you participate in the Partos programme, and use AidStream: tell us what you like and what confuses you. Thereโ€™s a good chance youโ€™ll see your feedback incorporated in the next version soon!

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