How are County, District, and School (CDS) numbers entered in the CNIPS? Is this code entered manually by the district or are the numbers provided by the State?
A. The CDS Code is provided to the sponsor by the CDE, and not by the Nutrition Services Division (NSD). Visit the California School Directory page. The CDS codes can be provided to you by the sponsors. It is not a required field in the POS file format. If present the code will be used as a validation; however, it is not stored in the CNIPS tables from the POS source file.
