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# 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_get_started.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_get_data_model_oriented.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Understand the typical EDA data model for your institution.
- **[Install EDA](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_install.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Learn how to install EDA, including prerequisites, compatibility restrictions, and the packages installed.
- **[Set Up Security](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_security.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Configure the permissions in your org to give every user at your institution the right level of access.
- **[Configure EDA](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_configure.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Configurations and customizations for EDA.
- **[Add Your School's Data](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_add_your_schools_data.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Learn how to migrate your school's data, import it in a recommended sequence, and prevent "Duplicates Detected" errors in EDA.
- **[EDA Object Reference](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_objects.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    List of EDA objects and their descriptions.
- **[Reporting and Analytics in EDA](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_reporting_analytics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    See how Education Data Architecture provides insight and analysis for every stage of the student life cycle.
- **[Configure EDA Data Automation with TDTM](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_configure_data_automation_tdtm.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use Table-Driven Trigger Management to manage your code and automate complex processes.
- **[Ongoing Administration](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_ongoing_administration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_salesforce_configuration_basics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_integration_resources.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Reference to software requirements specification.
- **[EDA Product Information for GDPR](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_gdpr.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    GDPR compliance resources for EDA.
- **[For Developers](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.eda_for_developers.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Education Data Architecture (EDA) is an open source, BSD-licensed package.