This article will describe how Socrata’s publishing solution works along with guides to various resources used for automating data.

Publishing Data on the Platform

The Socrata platform can be used for importing and updating data, find resources below on the various actions that can be done on the platform.

• Using the Socrata Data Management Experience - A guide to using Socrata's web-based importing tool!
• Understanding User Roles - the ability to import data to a Socrata data portal depends on the site, a user’s site role and their permissions. This article will describe the roles and permissions needed to make changes to a dataset.  

Editing dataset content

• Editing Datasets with the New Edit Experience
• How to Append Data

Editing the dataset schema

• Column Formatting in the New Publishing Experience
• Rearrange, Hide, and Delete Columns in the New Import Experience