CodeKit Administration Page

The CodeKit Administration Page lets you enter codes and their descriptions into the universal code table.

Code Set Page

The code set page shows a list of the code sets and their respective record counts:

code_set             5
country             87
currency            12
day                  7
month               12
                   123

Click on any of the code sets along the left column to see and edit a list of the codes in that set.

Selecting Another Code Set

At any point you can click on the "Code Set Page" link to return to the overview and then click on any of the code sets there.

The other navigation aid is always displayed at the top of every page:

      Select a code set
     [Code Set?]  [View]

This select dropdown lets you specify the code set that you are interested in. Then click [View] to see the selected set.

Adding a New Code Set

Click on "code_set" along the left margin of the Code Set Page or select "Code set" from the navigation dropdown to see the current list of code sets. Click the "Add new code set record" link at the bottom of the page.

Enter the new code set code and description. For example "city" and "city". Click the "Multiline Set" box if appropriate. See the CodeKit Overview page for an explanation of this option. Click [Add] and you have a new code set programmed and ready to use!

Code Display Order

When adding or updating a code you can specify its display order by entering a number in the "Code Order" field. Negative order numbers can be used to make a code sort early.

When a code is first added if the order field is not specified and the code field value is numeric, the order field is set to the value of the code field. This provides numeric sorting of numeric codes by default.

Obsolete Codes

When the time comes to retire a code from active use there are two approaches: deletion or deprecation. The problem with deletion is that the code value may still exist somewhere in the database. When it comes time to display the code description for a deleted code value only the actual code value is available which can be rather cryptic.

The solution is to mark obsolete codes as deprecated without removing them from the code set. This leaves the obsolete code descriptions in the code set for display purposes, but does not allow new data entry selection of deprecated code choices.

To deprecate a code click the "Deprecated" checkbox and then click [Update].

User Permissions

The Code Administation Page contains hooks to allow or disallow any combination of code addition, update, or deletion. Combined with user authentication these hooks can be set up to give different users different privileges for different code sets.