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The IMSMA Staging Area Generator is a tool that allows creating creates a staging area from an IMSMA {{IMSMANG}} database.<br />== Installing It is thus part of the {{IMSMANG}} tool set, but not included in the {{IMSMANG}} installation package. IMSMA Staging Area Generator==After the installation, the following menu entry will thus needs to be visible in Start &rarr; All Programs &rarr; IMSMA:installed separately. Please contact your [[File:Staging_Area_Generator_Icon.pngInformation Management Team | GICHD IM advisor]]<br />in order to get the latest installation package.

==Using the IMSMA {{Note | The Staging Area Generator GUIcan only be used with {{IMSMANG}} 6.0 and higher.}}==Basic Principles==__NOEDITSECTION__The Staging Area Generator takes an {{IMSMANG}} database as input and outputs a staging area database, i.e. a flattened version of the IMSMA database, containing only '''approved''' data. The structure of the staging area and a details on the data it contains can be found on the [[File:Staging_Area_Generator_GUI.pngStaging Area Database| IMSMA Staging Area Database]]<br />[[File:Staging_Area_Generator_GUI_optionspage.png]]

==When creating the Staging Area database with the [[Using Staging Area Generator | Staging Area Generator]] is possible to choose:* which language to use* which Country structure name to use (main or any of the alternative names)* if PostGIS geodata should be created* which projection to use* to do data post-processing. It is easy to [[Scheduling the Staging Area creation==| schedule the creation]] of the Staging Area database.