Upload deployments

Data warehouse / 6.1 U pload metadata and data / Upload deployments

Upload receivers

You can check this video tutorial to upload metadata for deployments.
Metadata on receivers and deployments are part of a NETWORK PROJECT.

Please follow this steps when uploading deployment information:

Select the correct context for your project (according to technology type). Check the schema here. If not clear you can send an email to etn@lifewatch.be.
Click ‘Data’ → ‘Import metadata’ in the landing page and you will be redirected to the webpage to upload the metadata.
Download the ‘Sample CSV file’ for DEPLOYMENTS and carefully read the file description (Open DEPLOYMENT file description).
- Some fields are mandatory and some are optional. You can check them in the ‘DEPLOYMENT file description’. The mandatory fields have a check mark next to them. Each file description contains the type of character expected for each field, and a description of the field with an example. Fill in as many fields as possible in the ‘.csv’ template following the explanations in the file description.
- The file must be comma-separated. If it is not the case, this should be changed in the regional settings of the PC (Control panel → Clock, language & region → Region and language → Additional Settings).
When the ‘Sample CSV file’ is completed, it can be uploaded by selecting ‘Import deployments’ and uploading the file, ‘Browse’ → Select your file → ‘Start import’. After importing the ‘Sample CSV file’, either a success or an error message appears. If the file cannot be uploaded:
- Check the error returned by the system. It usually indicates what type of incompatibility is present. Update your file accordingly and re-upload it.
- If the error persists, contact ETN via the link ‘Contact us’ at the bottom of the landing page or by sending an email to etn@lifewatch.be. When contacting ETN, provide sufficient information on the issue, send along the file you wanted to upload together with a print screen of the error message.

Important remarks

Receiver field must be: model + hyphen + serial number (e.g. VR2W-12345).
The deployments are linked to a receiver. All the receivers must be in the database before uploading the deployments.
Before uploading detection data, ‘RECOVER_DATE_TIME’ must be empty. When a deployment contains a recovery date, the system does not allow to upload detections for this receiver.
When the data for a deployment are successfully uploaded, the deployment is automatically closed (i.e. a RECOVER_DATE_TIME is added) and a new deployment is created with the starting date matching the recovery date of the previous deployment.