Community Services Data Set video guides

This is a series of videos demonstrating, as end-to-end and step-by-step, the process of submitting Community Services data to the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) cloud.

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This video will look at the different parts involved in registering to make a data submission. It will look at the ODS Code, Information Governance, DUC Forms and Two-Factor Authentication.

This video will demonstrate how to download the Intermediate Database (IDB) from the Technology Reference data Update Distribution (TRUD) site. The XML schema can also be downloaded from this same location.

This video introduces MS Access and the Intermediate Database (IDB).

This video provides descriptions of information held within the Technical Output Specification (TOS) document.

This video provides a general description of the User Guidance document and highlights key sections of it.

This video provides an overview of the Data Model for CSDS. The Data Model is a PDF file showing the tables and how they are related.

This video will show examples of data written to tables such as Header, MPI, GP, Referral and Care Contact for the Community Services IDB.

This video demonstrates how to make manual population to the Header table within the Community Services Data Set IDB Access database.

This video demonstrates how to copy and paste data from an Excel sheet into a table within our IDB. The exercise pastes data into the GP table.

This video demonstrates how to import data from an Excel sheet, and a CSV file, into a table within our IDB. The exercise imports data into the GP table.

This video describes the pattern in which CSDS data can be submitted. Described is the submission window and the Primary / Refresh model.

This video will walk through making a data submission on the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) cloud.

This video will provide more detail on the reasons a data submission might be rejected.

This video will show how to retrieve the reject messages, how to understand them, and how to approach fixing them.

This video will show how to get the data warning messages from SDCS Cloud and how to understand them.

This video looks at the ODS Portal (Organisation Data Service) website. This is a public site allowing the searching and display of information on organisations who have an ODS code.