What are you using the API for?

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Curious to hear what you’re building with the API! Introduce yourself, your organization, and what you’re working on below–

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Hi everyone, I’m Michaela, and I am the focal point for ActivityInfo at People in Need. We use ActivityInfo in multiple countries, and so far, the most frequent API use case has been with PowerBI and Power Automate. If anyone has experience with Power Automate use cases, please let me know, as it’s something we hope to explore further.

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Hello, I’m Roshna, I work as an Information Management Associate at UNHCR Iraq.
As a part of our Response Monitoring and Evaluation, we use ActivityInfo mainly for monthly data collection, as well as reference management and of course the use/role management side.

Regarding the API, currently, we use it in a few different ways:

  • We have a rather simple R script that calls each sector form as well as the reference data, joins them, then merges the data into one CSV file. I use this on a monthly basis to take a snapshot of the submitted partner data as well as refresh the indicator dashboard.

  • We also have a use case where there is a direct link of the JSON data to a PowerBI dashboard.

  • Finally, we have a use case where we prepare a template to import into ActivityInfo. The program is written in Java and mostly just reads from the reference data we have on ActivityInfo.

Another really interesting case that is no longer used internally is an R language Shiny app that not only reads data, it also writes data to ActivityInfo. It was mainly written by my previous supervisor and there is excellent documentation on it plus the code on GitHub: github.com/MatayoBweta/three_rp_planning

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