CWS Spotlight

Owned by Adrienne Schafer
Last updated: Oct 24, 2024 by Mary Nuznov
3 min read

The Spotlight provides Community Water Supply (CWS) staff with an at-a-glance dashboard view of critical and upcoming work on sanitary surveys, violations, deficiencies, and compliance schedules. Transparency into SDWIS data gives users better visibility of easily missed work and data quality issues - making SDWIS more visible and more manageable.

As of 10/24 with Release 16, CWS Spotlight has moved from the Main section of the dashboard, and is now hosted under Community Water.

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CWS Spotlight located under Community Water

  1. Click on Community Water, under Program Areas

  2. Select CWS Spotlight

  3. The following five Spotlight cards will appear:

    1. Priority Surveys

    2. Open Deficiencies

    3. Open Violations

    4. Tier 1/2 Violations without Public Notice

    5. Open Compliance Schedules

  4. The search results for each of the Spotlights are listed below. To change the search results displayed, simply click on a different Spotlight card or the ellipsis menu (…) next to the currently chosen Spotlight name.

  5. Click on the Supply Name in the search results to open the Entity Overview for that water supply.

Ellipsis menu of CWS Spotlight
The ellipsis menu allows you to view the search results for the Spotlight card of your choosing.

Filtering the Spotlight

The first time opening the Spotlight, you will see real-time results for all active supplies in SDWIS. You can customize Spotlight to display your preferred set of districts/subdistricts. Spotlight will remember the last set of filters you chose.

  1. Click on the Filter icon () on the right, above the Open Compliance Schedules card to open the Spotlight Filter dialog.

  2. Begin typing to search the list of available filters and click on your choice to select it. Choose as many as you wish.

  3. Click Set as My Default and the list will be filtered to match. The upper left will list your filters. Setting your default filter is not required, it is just convenience if you have specific districts/subdistricts that you commonly use.

  4. To create a custom filter, open the Spotlight Filter dialog again and click the to remove an existing filter. You may then add additional filters, as necessary. Click Apply Filter.

  5. The search results can be downloaded to open in Microsoft Excel by clicking the Export icon () located above the search results on the right.