Understanding External Award Processing
A core set of External Award Staging records maintain the external award transaction data. Each transaction is keyed with a set of values and has a processing status that indicates the loading of that transaction into the student award records.
The following diagram provides a high-level flow of the various data sources that update the core set of External Award Staging tables. After external award data or transactions have been updated to the staging tables, a separate External Award Load process is run to determine whether and how the external award data is to update the student award tables.
Image: Flow of external award data
Flow of external award data
![Flow of external award data](img/i6604892an-7e01.png)