If this report did not generate your information, search for your organization via the “Organization” search at the top of the report. If you’re a third party publisher, use your organizations’ Name to view all data you’ve published for credential and other organizations.

IMPORTANT: With the exception of duplicates or data that is incorrect, all data published to the Credential Registry is meant to be permanent. Once the lifecycle of a credential, organization, or other resources in the Registry ends, the lifecycle status needs to be updated to reflect an organization closing or a resource, such as a credential, no longer being offered

This report identifies any information published to the Credential Registry that has broken webpage links. Use this report’s Resource Type drop-down to see resources with broken webpage links for the organization, credentials, learning opportunities, and/or assessments. Below are instructions for users to correct broken webpage links and how to publish the updated links to the Credential Registry. To print these instructions, select the Print Instructions icon.

Schedule

The full Broken Links report is updated on a weekly basis.
NOTE: There is also a daily process to:

• Check for a resource that was updated/published that day and has any entries in the broken links report
• For any of the latter resources, the related issues will be removed from the link checker reports

Web browsers

Web browsers may block or show a message for websites that do not use https://. Even public pages are recommended to be secured using https. This means the site is secured with a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate. When looking at a url in your browser, if the website address uses https, it means that website is secure. Although an http link may not be broken, it could be blocked by a browser or the browser could display a message indicating that it may not be safe to proceed to the website.

Instructions:

1. As a reference, export the credential report by selecting the ‘Export’ button located on the right-hand side of the screen, directly above the report. After downloading the report as a spreadsheet, you can use spreadsheet filtering options to organize the information in ways that are useful to you. Otherwise, you can use the online report and it’s filters for Resource Type and Status Type. Review the resources that may require updates in the report.
   
   
   1. API users, update your resources and republish via the API.
      1. See the Registry Assistant API Publishing Handbook .
      2. For all resources that are no longer offered or for organizations that have closed, do not remove the data from the Registry. Instead, update the lifecycle status as follows and shown with the Credential Registry Publishing Assistant Guide:
         • For Credentials no longer offered use: CredentialStatusType:Deprecated
         • For Competency Frameworks no longer offered use: PublicationStatusType:Deprecated
         • For Organizations, Learning Opportunities, Assessments, TransferValueProfiles, and Collections use LifeCycleStatusType: Ceased
           
           
   2. All other users, there’s two options for updating your information published to the Registry.
      1. Use either the manual editor option by following the links to each resource in the “Publisher Link” column, and select ‘View in Publisher’ in this report. Or, use the bulk upload option.
         1. From the bulk upload tool, scroll down to Step 2 and select the ‘Update Existing Credentials’ tab.
         2. Once on the Existing Credentials tab, scroll down to Step 3 below the red font, select the ‘Download All Credentials for My Organization’. From the downloaded spreadsheet, you can update your data in the spreadsheet, save as a csv file, and upload into the Publisher.
      2. For all resources that are no longer offered or for organizations that have closed, do not remove the data from the Registry. Instead, update the lifecycle status as follows and shown with the Credential Registry Publishing Assistant Guide:
         1. For Credentials, Competency Frameworks and Competencies no longer offered use: Deprecated
         2. For Organizations, Learning Opportunities, Assessments,and Collections use: Ceased
      3. If the web page for resources that are no longer offered has changed, update the URL to use the new link.
      4. If the web pageStatus of Deprecated for the resources that are no longer offered cease to exist, use the top level domain as the url that is used for that organization.
      5. Once updates are made, follow this link to your organization summary page to complete approvals of completed resources that haven’t been published yet. Use the Organization Summary page instructions to complete approvals.
         • Once resources are approved, the Credential Engine team is immediately notified and your organization's contacts are also notified of all updates to the published resources.