Changes

* defining the areas of the country structure

Defining the levels of the country structure includes defining the number of levels and the names of the levels. For example, a programme may wish to implement a four-level country structure, while another programme wants to use a five-level country structure. The figure below shows an example of each option.

The Hierarchy Manager window displays the names of any defined country structure levels. If no country structure levels are defined, the window displays <Enter Level Name> for the levels. When the window initially displays, only the [[Image:FieldTemplateIcon.png]] button and the Done button are available. The [[Image:FieldViewIcon.png]] and [[Image:EcksButton.png]] buttons become available after you select a country structure level.}}

When defining the country structure areas, it may be desirable to add only the areas for the portions of the country affected by mines rather than the entire official country structure. This reduces the amount of data in IMSMA^NG to only that which is important, improving performance and usability when entering and searching for data.

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In addition to establishing the country structure in IMSMA^NG, information managers can establish other auxiliary data, including data for:

While this information is easily updated during operational use of IMSMA^NG, it is helpful to establish a baseline of information prior to proceeding with Data Entry Form template design and data entry. Many IMSMA^NG users already have a baseline set of information created for each of the auxiliary data types, either through the standard, predefined data available within IMSMA^NG or by migrating auxiliary data from a previous IMSMA version. Auxiliary data can also be augmented by creating CDFs to track additional information.

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As with a programme's Country Structure, you can use the Hierarchy Manager to add sub-level items. Each data type (Cause, Needs, Assistance) may have up to ten levels.

IMSMA^NG provides the ability to track information about organisations participating in mine action. Organisations can be categorized by type and assigned “work areas” based on the country structure. To display organisations on the map, users can provide geospatial data for each organisation.

Organisations are government, non-government, military, civilian, commercial, or non-profit groups who are responsible for performing activities on, monitoring ongoing activities on, or recording the existence of locations, hazards, activities, and/or events}}

IMSMA^NG offers the option to track information about specific places or infrastructure elements within a country that are relevant to mine action. These can be airports, water sources, hospitals, community centres, refugee camps or any other structures or buildings which designate a political, economic, social, and/or logistical value.

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{{note| To view the list of places in the Place List window, you must have read-only access to the Places permission. To add, change, or remove places, you must have read and write access to the Places permission}}

Another type of auxiliary data available in IMSMA^NG is ordnance. This data is used to represent the various kinds of ordnance found or cleared from lands or that are causing accidents. IMSMA^NG includes more than 5,000 predefined ordnance types with the ability to create additional ordnance required for a mine action programme.

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|[[Filter the Explosive Ordnance List]]

|[[Add Explosive Ordnance]]

{{note| To view ordnance in the Ordnance List window, you must have read-only access to the Ordnance permission. To add, change, or remove ordnance, you must have read and write access to the Ordnance permission}}

To import auxiliary data using an Excel spreadsheet, refer to [[Importing and Exporting Data with IMSMANG#Auxiliary Data | Importing Auxiliary Data]].

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