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      CCH Initiatives

      CCH Initiatives

       CCH Initiatives

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      Short Description: The various initiatives associated with the account.

      Long Description: Initiatives are dynamic and allow the account to "divide and conquer" as they say. Initiatives can have groups as well as initiatives embedded within them.

      Also, Authority Document lists can be assigned to Initiatives.

      Initiatives, unlike Groups, do have begin and end dates.

      This element connects to the following elements:

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      This element is comprised of the following fields:

      Field Type Description
      country string The country the address is located in.
      postal_code string The postal/zip code for the address.
      time_created string The date and time the record was created.
      time_updated string The date and time the record was last updated.
      unspsc_code string The United Nations product and service code most applicable to the record.
      account.id integer ID of the account record.
      active_status string The status of the list. 'A' = active. 'D' = deprecated.
      check_digit integer

      We humans have to use numbers. However, when entering numbers, we humans also have a tendency to screw up the entry or copying of those numbers. A Dutch mathematician named Jacobus Verhoeff conducted a study of 12,000 numerical errors J. Verhoeff, Error Detecting Decimal Codes, Mathematical Centre Tract 29, The Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, 1969, cited in Wagner and Putter, "Error Detecting Decimal Digits", CACM, Vol 32, No. 1 (January 1989), pp. 106-110. and from that, proposed a check digit calculation scheme http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~mohrj/algorithms/checkdigit.html#verhoeff that catches all single errors as well as all adjacent transpositions and most other errors.

      To ensure that the IDs assigned by the system have integrity during input as well as distribution while being transferred into various formats (such as Excel, Word, Text, XML), each ID will also have its own checksum value stored in a checksum field.

      Currently, the methodology for creating and verifying the checksum follows the Verhoeff calculation format.

      The CheckDigit is created along with the record's ID as a calculation by the UCF database system. As such, once assigned it should never change because the ID will never change. A sample calculation format is shown in the use case scenarios.
      creator._href URL URL to get the user who created the list.
      creator.id integer The ID of the user who created the list.
      groups._href URL URL to get the list's groups from.
      name string The record’s name derived from the harmonized dictionary term assigned to the record.
      account._href URL URL to get the list's account information from.
      ad_lists._href URL URL to get the list's Authority Document information from.
      description string This is a CSS formatted HTML entry containing the Authority Document’s Official Name, it’s ID, availability, the current number of citations associated with it, and when it was last reviewed and released.
      map_coordinates string The geographic coordinates associated with this record.
      map_points string The coordinate points used to create a geographic fence.
      map_zoom string The zoom level for the map associated with this record.
      users._href URL URL to get the list's user information from.
      end_date date The date that the initiative ends.
      start_date date The date that the initiative begins.