Publishing

Publishing makes your data part of a public, permanent archive. Because of that, CensusIO is careful about what gets published and when.

The rule: only approved records

A record is only ever published if it has been approved in review. Drafts, in-review, and rejected records stay private. This is the whole point of the review workflow: the public archive contains data your team has signed off on, and nothing else.

How records become public

1. An admin publishes the survey type. From the records table, Make public publishes the survey type, and every record that is already approved is published at that moment.
2. After that, approving a record publishes it. Once the survey type is published, approving an in-review record (one at a time or in bulk) also adds it to the public archive.

Publishing is permanent

Publishing follows an archive model, like a released dataset: a published record stays in the public record even if it is later reopened in review. CensusIO warns you before any action that will publish, so publish when the data is ready to stand as a public record. The full public-data lifecycle, including what is shown and how deletion is handled, is covered in the public data section.

Who can do this

This needs the Admin role.

Publishing a survey type is an admin action.

Related

• The review workflow
• Doing reviews