Education Data Architecture Documentation

Education Data Architecture (EDA) is a community-driven data architecture designed to help educational institutions use Salesforce.

• Get Started with EDA
  Learn about EDA, including EDA limitations and extension options, the EDA entity relationship diagram, and EDA objects and fields.
• Get Oriented to the EDA Data Model
  Understand the typical EDA data model for your institution.
• Install EDA
  Learn how to install EDA, including prerequisites, compatibility restrictions, and the packages installed.
• Set Up Security
  Configure the permissions in your org to give every user at your institution the right level of access.
• Configure EDA
  Configurations and customizations for EDA.
• Add Your School's Data
  Learn how to migrate your school's data, import it in a recommended sequence, and prevent "Duplicates Detected" errors in EDA.
• EDA Object Reference
  List of EDA objects and their descriptions.
• Reporting and Analytics in EDA
  See how Education Data Architecture provides insight and analysis for every stage of the student life cycle.
• Configure EDA Data Automation with TDTM
  Use Table-Driven Trigger Management to manage your code and automate complex processes.
• Ongoing Administration
  Keep up with releases, find the release version, set up new features, review custom settings and run settings health check, learn about feature telemetry, and uninstall EDA.
• Salesforce Configuration Basics for EDA
  Show new custom objects, create custom picklist values, add a lookup field, and use related lists and clone layouts to preserve your changes for EDA.
• EDA Integration Resources
  Reference to software requirements specification.
• EDA Product Information for GDPR
  GDPR compliance resources for EDA.
• For Developers
  The Education Data Architecture (EDA) is an open source, BSD-licensed package.