edamis Web Forms for sending data to Eurostat

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Scope Creating Web Form instances for datasets by using the edamis Web Portal. Preparing data for sender. Making official transfers. Accessing to the Web Form Entry list.

How to send data using edamis Web Forms? In case of problem while opening a Web Form contact your transmission coordinator or send an email to edamis support.

1 Scope Creating Web Form instances for datasets by using the edamis Web Portal. Preparing data for sender. Making official transfers. Accessing to the Web Form Entry list. Prerequisites To be an edamis user, having either a Sender or a Data Preparer role, in a partner organisation who wants to send data using Web Forms. Having Java 1.5 or higher installed on your PC. How to send data using edamis Web Forms? In case of problem while opening a Web Form contact your transmission coordinator or send an to edamis support. When connected to the edamis Web Portal, select the menu Transmission >> Web Form entry. Select a dataset and click on "View". If your dataset is not in the list, contact the Eurostat domain manager, your transmission coordinator or edamis Central Support. Click on "Insert". edamis Help Centre: Go to the edamis Web Portal and click on the link "edamis Help Centre" 1 / 5

Select the "Reference period" for the data you want to send,

Your browser should present something similar as this.

two questions, answer both positively ("Yes" and "Run").

2 Select the "Reference period" for the data you want to send, choose a "Language" and click on "Accept". Your browser should present something similar as this. When using edamis Web Form for the first time, you are asked two questions, answer both positively ("Yes" and "Run"). edamis Help Centre: Go to the edamis Web Portal and click on the link "edamis Help Centre" 2 / 5

A special flag column is available in some Web Forms, allowing to select a flag in a predefined list.

3 The Web Form is displayed. The table to fill in the data is presented in the upper part of the screen. Validation rules and an action buttons appear on the lower part of the screen. A special flag column is available in some Web Forms, allowing to select a flag in a predefined list. Click on a cell and enter a numeric value. Cells with validation rules have a different background. edamis Help Centre: Go to the edamis Web Portal and click on the link "edamis Help Centre" 3 / 5

4 Entering a correct value in a cell having validation rules makes these rules to disappear from the list. If the value entered breaks a validation rule, two situations are possible according to the level defined for the validation rule: Basic: the rule may be broken. The user is required to provide some justification before being allowed to officially transmit data. Critical: the rule must always be respected before official transmission is allowed. A Web Form can not be sent as long as validation rules are visible in the list. The action button bar at the bottom of the screen allows to: Carry out a formal data transmission to Eurostat. This button is disabled until all validation rules have been addressed. Enter data for a dataset that is part of a grouped dataset. In this special case an official transfer to Eurostat is possible only if data has been entered for all datasets in the group. Save the current Web Form to continue updating it later. Export the data in the selected table of the Web Form in several formats such as PDF, XML, CSV and TXT. Import a Web Form previously exported. This overwrites the existing values of the active table only. Print the content of the active table in the Web Form. Enter a free text comment. Exit the Web Form. edamis Help Centre: Go to the edamis Web Portal and click on the link "edamis Help Centre" 4 / 5

5 Selecting a particular Web Form instance in the Web Form Entry table can be done easily by using the available filters at the top of the list. Each row corresponds to a single Web Form instance created for one reference period. A web form may have different statuses: Draft: the Web Form instance has not yet been transmitted to Eurostat. Estimated: a Web Form instance has been created by Eurostat containing estimated data for the reference period. Transferred: the Web Form instance has been officially transmitted to Eurostat. Approved: the Web Form instance has been officially approved by Eurostat. Ready for transfer: the Web Form instance is ready to be sent with the other instances of the group of dataset. Rejected: the Web Form instance has been rejected by Eurostat. A new version of the data has to be sent. edamis Help Centre: Go to the edamis Web Portal and click on the link "edamis Help Centre" 5 / 5

Quick User Guide for TCO EDAMIS 3.3

Quick User Guide for TCO EDAMIS 3.3 Author Eurostat Unit B5: Data and metadata services and standards Release 1.0 Status Final Reference GUI 2016-04-20 GUI (Quick User Guide for TCO) F.doc TABLE OF CONTENTS