Administering Census

Tools for Census Administrators

Census provides a set of tools for administering projects and Web views:

• Census Admin for administering projects.
• Web View Editor for defining and generating Web views for projects.
• Census Web Admin for administering projects through the Web.

Census Admin

Census Admin is a Microsoft Windows application for administering Census projects. For example, you use Census Admin to:

• Create projects.
• Customize the issue fields.
• Create users and user groups, and define group privileges (access to features and projects).
• Define queries, sorts, and layouts.
• Define reports.
• Define and set up e-mail notifications.

Web View Editor

Web View Editor is a Microsoft Windows application that you use to create Web Views (HTML/ASP pages) for your Census projects. Web Views are HTML/ASP pages that provide access to Census projects through a Web browser.

Views are easy to define using the Web View Editor. Just choose a set of queries and fields that you want to expose in the view.

• Queries determine what issues are visible to users.

• Fields determine what issue information users can view and modify.

Census Web Admin

Census Web Admin is a Web-based administration tool. It allows you to perform administrative tasks over the Web:

• Create users and user groups, and define group privileges (access to features and projects).
• Add and edit users and contacts.
• Define workflow rules.
• Create new tabs.
• Set up and edit choice lists.
• Migrate databases to SQL Server and move projects to different SQL Server computers.
• Move attachments to a different computer.
• Enable e-mail notifications.