What is NHSeCat Download Centre for

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What is NHS-eCat Download Centre for?

• NHS-eCat Download Centre has been developed to
  allow users to download product information for
  contracts that are appropriate to their
  organisation
• Users can choose to
• Download the latest information for a specified
  set of contracts
• Download information for contracts that have
  changed since their last download or since a
  specific date
• The next set of screens provide a step by step
  guide to the Download Centre application

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Logging into Download Centre
Click here to access Download Centre
Click to access Download Centre
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Enter your Trust code
Enter your NHS-eCat Username
Enter your NHS-eCat password
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Define Requirements
This screen allows you to select the contracts
required for downloading
Select and move contract to the left hand side
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When all the required contracts have been
selected, click Create New Extract
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Create New Extract
This screen allows you to create and define a new
download job
An optional short description can be entered here
Choose Changes Only or All Data
When Changes Only is selected, Date defaults to
date of last download
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Record of Events
This page displays and monitors the progress of
all download jobs for the organisation
Icon changes as the Download progresses
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Saving a file
Saving to the local drive
Click Download File and save cabinet
(.cab) file on local drive
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Option to change file name
Cabinet (,cab) file will need to be unzipped to
provide a comma separated file Beware of opening
this file in MS Excel. An all data file may be
too big. Leading zeros will be stripped from
attributes such as Dbid, Suppliers product code
etc.
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Recent Changes
Recent Changes
The Recent Changes page informs you of all
contracts that have been added or removed since
the completion of your last extract
Contract has been added
Deleted contracts shown here
If you require access to Download Centre, please
contact NHS-eCat Helpdesk on 0118 980 8699 or by
email to helpdesk.nhs-ecat_at_pasa.nhs.uk