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Q10013 - FAQ: What are additional features for registered users?

What are additional features for registered users?

The free access limitations

As a guest user, you can get free data. However, there are some limitations. A guest:
  • cannot download data
  • cannot create favorites or customized groups
  • cannot save a query
  • cannot execute elaborate data requests
  • cannot set an alert notification for batch processing

    Subscriber only features

    The following features are available only to subscribed users (Individual and Site License Option):
  • Saving frequently used commodities, reporters, partners and years and saving your queries. .
  • Creating customized commodity and country groups. The system will calculate the aggregated value for the group. For example, you can create a commodity group called ‘manufactured goods’ by adding SITC sections 5 through 8 and subtracting division 68.
  • Setting an alert notification and/or an auto batch. These features are built into your saved queries. Every night the saved data queries are checked against newly added or revised data. If new data were added then an alert notification is sent by email to the subscriber and the data request is automatically executed (as “auto batch”). For example, the subscriber can setup a data request regarding a particular set of countries; each time data are added to the UN Comtrade database for any of these countries the auto batch will be run.
  • Customizing the front page of UN Comtrade according to your own wishes.
  • Downloading the data a using direct download (up to 150 thousand records) or batch download (up to 25 million records).
  • Running a complex and heavy query via batch. You'll avoid the "time out" message. The link to the result file will be sent to you via email.
  • Customizing the download format. You'll be able to select and change the order of the columns of your result file.
  • Subscribing to monthly reports on organizational usage statistics.

    Site License features

    The site license gives all of the features described above to all users of the organization. The advantages are:
  • Each user is recognized by IP Address which enables automatic login.
  • Each user can still have all of the personalization features of individual users (by specifying an email address), including batch submission, customized groups, alert notification, etc.
  • The Master User can create sub-users with user name and password if access to UN Comtrade is required from outside the defined IP addresses.
  • The IP users can make use of the organizational favorites, saved queries and download format set by Master Account.
  • Unlimited download. For specific internal projects millions of records can be easily downloaded.
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    Created on 2006-05-26.
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