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  • [Mzima] Ushahidi Platform User Manual
  • Navigating the Ushahidi Platform User Manual
  • Downloading the User Manual
  • Translating the User Manual
  • About Ushahidi
  • Overview of Ushahidi Platform [Mzima]
    • Technical Specifications
  • 1. Installing Ushahidi Platform
  • 2. Setting up a deployment
  • 3. Configuring your deployment
    • 3.1 Accessing your deployment
    • 3.2 General Settings
    • 3.3 Surveys
    • 3.4 Data Sources
      • 3.4.1 Email
      • 3.4.2 Gmail
      • 3.4.3 Vonage(formerly NextMo)
      • 3.4.4 SMSSync
      • 3.4.5 Twilio
      • 3.4.6 Twitter
      • 3.4.7 Africa's Talking
    • 3.5 Categories
  • 4. Managing People on your deployment
    • 4.1 Roles
    • 4.2 Users
  • 5. Modes for visualizing and managing data on your deployment
    • 5.1 Map View
    • 5.2 Data view
    • 5.3 Activity view
    • 5.4 Data managing functionalities shared among views
  • 6. Managing Data in your deployment
    • 6.1 Viewing Posts
    • 6.2 Filtering and Sorting Posts
    • 6.3 Adding Posts
    • 6.4 Editing Posts
    • 6.5 Translating Posts
    • 6.6 Publishing Posts
    • 6.7 Deleting Posts
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    • 6.8 Importing Data
    • 6.9 Exporting and Tagging Data
      • 6.9.1 Exporting Data
      • 6.9.2 Tagging Data - HDX integration
  • 7. Analysing Data on your deployment
    • Untitled
    • 7.1 Saved Searches
    • 7.2 Collections
  • 8. Additional Links
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  1. 3. Configuring your deployment

3.4 Data Sources

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Last updated 1 year ago

Data sources may contain outdated information. Work is ongoing to fix the content of this page.

There are many ways to enter posts into your Ushahidi deployment other than from the deployment itself. This section shows you how to configure all the possible data source types.

To access the data sources configuration page, on the sidebar, click on Settings

Then, click on Data Sources

You should get a full list of data sources as shown below

In this section you will learn how to configure different data sources to your Ushahidi deployment.

3.4.1 Email
3.4.2 Gmail
3.4.3 Frontline SMS
3.4.4 Vonage(formely NextMo)
3.4.5 SMSSync
3.4.6 Twilio
3.4.7 Twitter
3.4.8 Africas Talking
Settings button highlighted in the sidebar of an Ushahidi.io deployment
Data sources link highlighted in the deployment's settings page.
Data Sources Page highlighted displaying a list of available data sources
Settings button higlighted in the sidebar of an Ushahidi.io deployment
Data sources link highlighted in the deployment's settings page.
Data Sources Page highlighted displaying a list of available data sources.