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SIF Unity Dashboard

This page explains how the SIF Unity dashboard is organized and how to use the publishing order effectively.

The Iowa SIF Unity dashboard is organized into two areas: Main Publishing for core setup and regular publishing, and On Demand for data that is typically published when needed.

Dashboard organization

The dashboard is arranged by functional area. Within each area, related SIF Unity objects are grouped together to make navigation easier and help users publish foundational data before dependent data.

Main Publishing

  • Organization

  • Organization Setup

  • Calendars

  • Schedules

  • StudentPersonal

  • StudentSchoolEnrollment

  • StaffPersonal

  • StaffAssignment

  • Section Enrollments

  • Grades

  • Discipline

  • Programs

  • Contacts

On Demand

  • Attendance

  • Transcripts

Main Publishing section

Use the Main Publishing section for the core objects that define your district, schools, calendars, courses, people, enrollments, and related records. In most cases, this is the primary area used during setup and ongoing publishing.

1. Organization

Publish organization-level records first. These objects establish the district and school structure that other records reference.

  • LEAInfo

  • SchoolInfo

2. Organization Setup

Next, publish the setup objects that support attendance and grading configuration.

  • AttendanceCodeInfo

  • MarkInfo

  • MarkValueInfo

3. Calendars

Publish calendar data after organization setup so terms and calendar definitions are available to scheduling and attendance-related objects.

  • TermInfo

  • CalendarSummary

  • CalendarDate

4. Schedules

Publish course and section structures after calendar data is in place. These records define the instructional schedule used by enrollment and grading objects.

  • SchoolCourseInfo

  • SectionInfo

  • SectionMarkInfo

Section-related data depends on earlier organizational and calendar data being available. Publishing in dashboard order helps avoid reference issues between objects.

5. StudentPersonal

Publish student identity and core student records before publishing enrollment, attendance, grades, or contact relationships.

  • StudentPersonal

6. StudentSchoolEnrollment

Publish school enrollment records after student records so each student can be tied to the appropriate school and enrollment context.

  • StudentSchoolEnrollment

7. StaffPersonal

Publish staff identity records before staff assignments so assignment records can reference existing staff records.

  • StaffPersonal

8. StaffAssignment

Publish staff assignment data after staff and school structures are available.

  • StaffAssignment

9. Section Enrollments

Publish section enrollment data after students, schools, and sections are published.

  • StudentSectionEnrollment

10. Grades

Publish grade-related records after sections, marks, and enrollments are established.

  • StudentSectionMarks

11. Discipline

Publish discipline records after the core student and school data is available.

  • DisciplineIncident

12. Programs

Publish program participation and placement records for students after student and school context has been published.

  • StudentParticipation

  • StudentPlacement

13. Contacts

Publish contact records after student data is available. In SIF Unity, contact information is separated into personal details and relationship details.

  • StudentContactPersonal

  • StudentContactRelationship

A practical approach is to publish StudentContactPersonal first, then publish StudentContactRelationship so the relationship records can reference the contact records correctly.

On Demand section

The On Demand section contains records that are commonly published when needed rather than as part of the core initial sequence.

Attendance

Use this area for attendance-related publishing. These objects typically rely on previously published student, enrollment, calendar, and schedule data.

  • StudentAttendanceSummary

  • StudentPeriodAttendance

  • StudentDailyAttendance

Transcripts

Use this area for transcript and academic history publishing.

  • StudentDemographicRecord

  • StudentAcademicRecord

Follow the dashboard order when publishing data, especially during initial setup or after large data changes.

  1. Publish Organization objects.

  2. Publish Organization Setup objects.

  3. Publish Calendars.

  4. Publish Schedules.

  5. Publish StudentPersonal.

  6. Publish StudentSchoolEnrollment.

  7. Publish StaffPersonal.

  8. Publish StaffAssignment.

  9. Publish StudentSectionEnrollment.

  10. Publish StudentSectionMarks.

  11. Publish DisciplineIncident.

  12. Publish StudentParticipation and StudentPlacement.

  13. Publish StudentContactPersonal and StudentContactRelationship.

  14. Use On Demand publishing for Attendance and Transcript objects as needed.

Publishing in this order helps ensure that foundational records exist before dependent records are sent, which improves reliability and reduces publishing errors.


Note: If you are preparing to publish section grades, start by confirming that LEA and school data, setup records, calendar records, schedule records, student records, school enrollments, and section enrollments have already been published. Then publish StudentSectionMarks. This sequence reduces the chance that grade records reference missing students, sections, or marking structures.

Quick reference

Dashboard area

Purpose

Objects

Organization

Defines district and school entities

LEAInfo, SchoolInfo

Organization Setup

Defines attendance and grading setup

AttendanceCodeInfo, MarkInfo, MarkValueInfo

Calendars

Defines terms and calendar structures

TermInfo, CalendarSummary, CalendarDate

Schedules

Defines courses, sections, and section grading links

SchoolCourseInfo, SectionInfo, SectionMarkInfo

Core people and enrollment

Defines students, staff, and enrollment relationships

StudentPersonal, StudentSchoolEnrollment, StaffPersonal, StaffAssignment, StudentSectionEnrollment

Outcome and support data

Publishes grades, discipline, programs, contacts, attendance, and transcripts

StudentSectionMarks, DisciplineIncident, StudentParticipation, StudentPlacement, StudentContactPersonal, StudentContactRelationship, StudentAttendanceSummary, StudentPeriodAttendance, StudentDailyAttendance, StudentDemographicRecord, StudentAcademicRecord

Dashboard Sections

The dashboard has four publishing sections, each with a Run All button:

Section

Objects (in order)

Publish Organization Data

LEA Info, School Info, Term Info, Calendar Summary, Calendar Date, Attendance Code Info, Mark Info, Mark Value Info, School Course Info, Section Info, Section Mark Info

Publish Student Data

Student Personal, Student School Enrollment, Student Demographic Records, Student Snapshot, Student Section Enrollment, Student Section Marks, Student Contact Personal, Student Contact Relationship, Discipline Incident

Publish Staff Data

Staff Personal, Staff Assignment

Publish Attendance and Transcripts

Student Attendance Summary, Student Daily Attendance, Student Period Attendance, Student Academic Record

Dashboard Columns

Each object row displays: Processing | Dependencies | Publishing | Errors | Published (record count) | Last Published (timestamp) | Run Now

Publishing Actions

  • Run Now — publish a single object

  • Run All — publish all objects in a section

  • Review — inspect publishing status before committing