**EI Feed Forward and EI Merge Plus installation instructions for
Zambia**

*November 9^th^, 2006 by Apoorva Patel and Sameer Pujari*

**Overview**

This document describes customized instructions for **EI Feed Forward**
and **EI Merge Plus** applications for EpiInfo. The national and
provencial setups are different and instructions for each are provided.

**Issues With Setup**

If there are issues during setup that are not addressed in this
document, please contact:

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Apoorva Patel                     | Sameer Pujari                     |
|                                   |                                   |
| <EUE1@cdc.gov>                    | <EFV5@cdc.gov>                    |
|                                   |                                   |
| 678-852-7716 (mobile)             | 404-324-0894 (mobile)             |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

**Install Files Download Instructions**

1.  Point your browser to <ftp://ftp.apatel.com/apatelcom00/NPSPftp>

2.  For user id, enter: NPSPftp

3.  For password, enter: NPSPftp

4.  Copy the folder called *ZambiaSystem* and copy it onto C:\\ root
    drive.

**EI Feed Forward Application Install**

1.  The EI Feed Forward install files come with two different installs.
    Each one is contained in a separate folder. One folder is called
    *EIFeedForward_XP* and the other is called *EIFeedForward_Other.*
    Select and open appropriate folder from c:\\ZambiaSystem, that you
    copied from the ftp site. Run **setup.exe** file.

2.  Once the install starts, you will be presented with following dialog
    box, click on the button circled in red.\
    ![](media/image1.png){width="4.500694444444444in"
    height="2.4055555555555554in"}

3.  If you see a *Version Conflict* dialog box such as the one below
    (the example is for comdlg32.ocx, but it applies to any file),
    select **Yes**.\
    ![](media/image2.png){width="3.6256944444444446in"
    height="2.6458333333333335in"}

4.  If you see the following dialog box about Msvcrt.dll, select
    **Ignore**.\
    ![](media/image3.png){width="5.123611111111111in"
    height="1.4944444444444445in"}

5.  Following the dialog in step 3, you will get following dialog box,
    press **Yes**.\
    ![](media/image4.png){width="5.001388888888889in"
    height="1.6548611111111111in"}

6.  The final dialog box has the success message, click **Yes**.

**EI Feed Forward Configuration**

The EI Feed Forward for Zambia comes with Configuration complete,
[except for setup of the province name]{.underline}. Instructions on
making this change are included below.

Once, installed the EI Feed Forward is called from the Feed Forward menu
of *Province_3tier_Zambia* system.

1.  Start the EpiInfo Province_3tier_Zambia system.

2.  Select **Tools** menu and then **Tables Configuration** menu.
    Following screen is displayed. Enter *your* province code here. And
    click **Close**. [Do not modify any other settings as they are
    already configured for Zambia. **After you follow these steps, you
    do not have to configure it again.**\
    ]{.underline}![](media/image5.png){width="5.125694444444444in"
    height="4.302777777777778in"}

**To Use Feed Forward**

1.  Start the EpiInfo Province_3tier_Zambia system.

2.  Select Feed Forward from the menu.

3.  Click Export.

4.  Please note the bottom left of the screen, the output file is place
    in the folder indicated.\
    ![](media/image6.png){width="4.998611111111111in"
    height="3.828472222222222in"}

**EI Merge Plus Application Install**

1.  The EI Merge Plus install files come with two different installs.
    Each one is contained in a separate folder. One folder is called
    *EIMergePlus_XP* and the other is called *EIMergePlus_Other.* Select
    and open appropriate folder from c:\\ZambiaSystem, that you copied
    from the ftp site. Run **setup.exe** file.

2.  If you see a *Version Conflict* dialog box such as the one below
    (the example is for comdlg32.ocx, but it applies to any file),
    select **Yes**.\
    ![](media/image2.png){width="3.6256944444444446in"
    height="2.6458333333333335in"}

3.  Once the install starts, you will be presented with following dialog
    box, click on the button circled in red.\
    ![](media/image1.png){width="4.500694444444444in"
    height="2.4055555555555554in"}

4.  If you see a *Version Conflict* dialog box such as the one below
    (the example is for comdlg32.ocx, but it applies to any file),
    select **Yes**.\
    ![](media/image2.png){width="3.6256944444444446in"
    height="2.6458333333333335in"}

5.  If you see the following dialog box about Msvcrt.dll, select
    **Ignore**.\
    ![](media/image3.png){width="5.123611111111111in"
    height="1.4944444444444445in"}

6.  Following the dialog in step 3, you will get following dialog box,
    press **Yes**.\
    ![](media/image4.png){width="5.001388888888889in"
    height="1.6548611111111111in"}

7.  The final dialog box has the success message, click **Yes**.

**EI Merge Plus Configuration**

The EI Merge Plus for Zambia comes with Configuration completed, [no
changes are necessary.]{.underline} The configuration information is
kept in config.xml file in the same directory as EIMergePlus.exe file.

**To Use EI Merge Plus**

1.  Start the EpiInfo National_3tier_Zambia or Province_3tier_Zambia
    system.

2.  Select Merge from the menu.

3.  Click Import. Below is an example of the National screen.\
    ![](media/image7.png){width="5.995833333333334in"
    height="2.433333333333333in"}

4.  When the Import is complete, you will be prompted to save the Log
    file, if you are interested to do so, please type in the name and
    click **OK**. Else, click **Cancel**.\
    ![](media/image8.png){width="5.248611111111111in"
    height="3.915277777777778in"}