Get Information about Schools documentation

This is the technical documentation area for Get Information about Schools (GIAS). It brings together the service architecture, component documentation, and supporting technical notes maintained in this repository.

Main entry points

• Service overview
• Container view
• Back-end component
• Front-end component
• Operations
• Production deployment architecture
• S158 Data Factory setup
• Data architecture
• Entity relationship diagrams

Site index

All documentation pages in this site.

• Operations
  • GIAS Production Deployment Architecture
  • Operations Data
    • Data Architecture
      • GIAS Data Architecture - Overview
      • GIAS Data Flows - Inbound
      • GIAS Data Flows - Internal and Outbound
      • GIAS Data Stores Catalogue
      • GIAS Integration Catalogue
    • Entity Relationship Diagrams
      • Analysis Report And Filter Visibility
      • Announcements And News Visibility
      • Audit Archives And Retention Entity Relationship Diagram
      • Audit Foundations And Entity Snapshots
      • Audit Table Catalogue
      • Bulk Updates, Triggers And Processing
      • Change Request Approval And Workflow Access
      • Companies House And Master Provider Imports
      • Core Establishment Entity Relationship Diagram
      • DataOps Job Control And Logs
      • Document Access
      • Documents And Content
      • Establishment Change History And Approval Workflow
      • Establishment Classifications
      • Establishment Field Metadata And Mapping
      • Establishment Field Permissions
      • Establishment Identifier Lifecycle Entity Relationship Diagram
      • Extract Configuration And Data Dictionary
      • FAQs And Feedback
      • Field Ownership And Trusted Source
      • Geography And Administrative Classifications
      • Geography And Postcode Imports
      • Group And Staff Field Metadata
      • Group Change Request Workflow
      • Group Field Permissions And Metadata
      • Groups, Trusts, Federations And Local Authority Entity Relationship Diagram
      • Hibernate Envers Audit Pattern
      • Inbox Recipients And Email
      • Legacy Programme Indicators
      • News Announcements And Notifications
      • Operational Status Code Lists
      • Organisation Group Classifications
      • Provision And Workforce Indicators
      • Report And Content Artefacts
      • Report File Access
      • Row-Level Access And Organisation Scope
      • Scheduled Extract Access
      • Scheduled Extracts And Callbacks
      • Scheduler And Batch Runtime
      • Sharing And Public Cache
      • Specialism And Quality Indicators
      • Staff And Governance Entity Relationship Diagram
      • Staff Change Request Workflow
      • Staff Field Permissions
      • Subscriber Access And Entitlements
      • Tool Permissions
      • User Access Request And Provisioning
      • Users And User Groups
      • Users, User Groups And Permissions Overview
  • S158 Data Factory Setup
• Service
  • Service Overview
  • C4 Container Diagram
  • Back End Component
    • C4 Component Diagrams for the GIAS backend Java component
    • Database
      • Flyway Migration Categories
      • SQL Server Integration
    • Integrations
      • Companies House Integration
      • GOV.UK Notify Integration
      • ONS Geography Integration
      • Ordnance Survey Integration
      • UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP) Integration
    • Storage
      • Azure Blob Storage Integration
  • Front End Component
    • C4 Component Diagrams
    • GIAS Front End Authentication Flow
    • Reference
      • API Session Recorder and Logging
      • Azure Table Storage Usage
      • Change History
      • Change Requests and Approvals
      • Content Management
      • DataQualityStatus
      • External Lookup Links
      • Guidance and Blob Resources
      • Lookup and Caching
      • Search and Filtering
      • Security and Permissions
      • Web Front End Address Lookups
      • Web Front End Bulk Updates
      • Web Front End Companies House Number
      • Web Front End Downloads
      • Web Front End Tokens