The integration with UCAS enables applications and reference data to be imported from UCAS. Admissions exports decisions, such as conditional offers, to UCAS when decisions are published to ensure that applications in Admissions and applications in UCAS are synchronised. Responses to applications must be imported from UCAS.
The integration with UCAS is through the UCAS XML-link service. The XML-link is a web service for institutions to retrieve applications and reference data. You can increment the reference data cycle to begin importing reference data for the next admissions cycle to view any changes before the next admissions cycle begins.
You can change the UCAS endpoint, which is the web address used to connect to UCAS, to import different data sets. For example, you can import test data from UCAS to a pre-production environment, before importing live data to the production environment. The integration also requires an account from UCAS.
The image UCAS shows how test data is imported to a pre-production environment and live data to a production environment using the XML-link web service.
