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Forsta Data Central is a desktop application that brings together all of the activities that can take place after data has been collected, but before it has been reported. These activities include data and metadata definition and manipulation, cleaning and recoding, reformatting, streaming, weighting, and exporting.
Note: The Data Central application is a chargeable add-on for Forsta Professional Authoring. For more detailed information about Data Central, refer to the Data Central User Guide which accompanies the application.
The Data Central Project List lists the Data Central projects currently available to you. When you select this menu, the page opens as shownhere below.
Figure 1 - Example of the Data Central Project List
On this page you can search for and open a desired project, import Data Central Projects, and delete them if required. Left-click on a blue Project Name link or right-click on it and select View Details to open the Details page for the project, and right-click and select Create New Rule to create a new Data Central rule.
In the event the list is extensive it may cover several pages. In this case, the Page arrows in the lower-right corner of the page will be active. Click the arrows to move to other pages. Add search criteria to the various fields above the columns to find the task you are interested in, or click a "letter button" (located across the lower frame of the window) to display only those rules where the project name begins with that letter. Click Reset to remove all input search criteria and display the full list.
When you click on a Data Central project link in the project list, the Project Details page opens at the general tab as shown in the example - .
Figure 2 - Example of the Data Central Project details page
This tab provides general details for the rule, such as its name, title and description, and the created and modified information (not editable).
Details
The Details tab shows the input and output details of the rule - . This information is read-only on this tab.
Click on the various tabs and buttons in the figure to go to the appropriate topics.
Figure 3 - Example of the Details tab
Note that more than one source and/or target can be specified (go to Creating a New Data Central Rule for more information).
The detail columns are as follows:
- Type - the data type of file specified as input and output for the data (source and target) to be processed by the rule.
- Name - the name of the projects/files specified as the data source and target.
- Title - if the source and/or target files have been given titles, these are listed in this column.
- Language - if the project is multilingual, then project languages are listed here.
- Description - the project description.
Permissions
The "owner" of a project - the user who creates or imports a Data Central project - has full administrator rights to that project. Initially, all other users (except administrators) have no rights; they cannot even see the project in their Data Central Project List until the "owner" has allocated the appropriate rights to them. The Data Central Project Permissions tab - - allows the creator to allocate access rights to the project he/she has created/imported, to the various other users in the company. The tab lists all the users currently registered in your company and others who may have been added to the list.
Click on the various tabs and buttons in the figure to go to the appropriate topics.
Figure 4 - Example of the Permissions tab
In the event the list is extensive it may cover several pages. In this case, the Page arrows in the lower-right corner of the page will be active. Click the arrows to move to other pages. Add search criteria to the various fields above the columns then click Search to reduce the list to manageable proportions. Click Reset to remove all input search criteria and display the full list.
For each user listed, click the down-arrow in the Permission Type column and select the appropriate permission. On completion, save the changes.
If all the employees in your company are to have the same permission level for the project, select the permission level from the drop-down list towards the right end of the Search toolbar, then click Grant All. All employees will then be given the selected permission.