What's New in 23R1

Pre-Release Date: March 27, 2023 | CDB Pre-Release Date: April 3, 2023 | Release Date: April 14 & 21, 2023

We are pleased to bring you CDMS in 23R1. Read about the new features below. You can find information on enabling new features in the 23R1 Feature Enablement Details. Information on developer features (REST API) is in the Developer Portal.

CDMS

Features in this section are changes that apply to all application areas of Vault CDMS.

Removing Legacy EDC Features

Veeva has removed the following legacy EDC features, which are no longer being used by customers:

  • PDF V1

Enablement

This change applies automatically.

Data Entry

Features in this section are changes to the Data Entry tab, a working area for investigators and clinical research coordinators to enter study execution data.

ILB No Longer Allowed for Lab Forms

Users can no longer mark a Lab Form as Intentionally Left Blank. Instead, they can mark blank Lab forms as Lab Tests Not Performed.

Use Case

This feature removes redundant form actions.

Enablement

This change applies automatically.

Query Detail Support for Multi-role Security

Users can select the Query Team they want to use when creating a manual query if the user has multiple roles on multiple query teams. The selected Query Team will then be visible in the UI and will display in the Query Detail Listing and the SYS_Q dataset of the Study Data Extract.

Use Case

This feature creates consistency among single-role security studies.

Enablement

This feature is available automatically in vaults using Multi-Role Security.

Study Closeout: Non-restricted Version

With this feature, Vault will check if a site contains any restricted forms when generating Closeout PDFs. The Closeout PDF won’t be marked as restricted if no restricted data is detected. Site users won’t be required to have the restricted data permission in order to download and accept the files.

Use Case

Users no longer need to create custom roles to download and accept non-restricted Closeout PDFs.

Enablement

This feature is available automatically.

UI Text Changes for Form Submission

With this feature, the “Complete” button on forms has been relabeled as “Submit.” Users will see a warning dialog if they navigate away from an In Progress form without first submitting the data to ensure that data is submitted. When prompted with the warning dialog, users can choose to submit the form, continue editing the form, or leave the page.

Use Case

This feature ensures that site users are submitting form data.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Clinical Coding

The following are new features for Coder, the clinical coding area for Vault Coder.

Coder Tools Navigation Refresh

With this feature, the main navigation in Coder Tools will be moved to the left panel.

Use Case

This new UI experience is scalable as we add more features to Coder Tools.

Enablement

Auto-on.

Sync Synonym Lists

Users can designate one Synonym List and Do Not Autocode List to perform all autocoding and suggestions actions for two vaults. Autocoding and Suggestions will be consistent across all Studies that span two vaults.

Coders can’t Propagate Code and Coder Managers can’t apply their approval action to the Synonym List on the secondary vault. While all updates to the Synonym List will sync across two vaults, the action to propagate the code to all Forms that are assigned to the same Synonym List is limited to the primary vault.

Use Case

Autocoding and Suggestions will be consistent across all Studies that span two Vaults.

Enablement

Contact Veeva to enable.

UI for Orphaned or Deleted Coder Items

With this release, Study Designers can still see coding configurations for Form and Item Definitions from an orphaned Verbatim Item Definition or an orphaned or deleted related coding Item Definition. Study Designers can then select a new Item Definition or make the mapping not required (in the case of related Coding Item Definitions only). Users can also delete the Coding Configuration on the Form Definition entirely.

Use Case

Study Designers will have options to fix the Coding Configuration instead of requiring assistance from Veeva Support.

Enablement

Auto-on.

Assessments

The following are new features for the Assessments area of Vault EDC.

Medical Assessments Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements to Medical Assessments:

  • Added the Medical Assessments audit trail to the UI and PDFs
  • The audit trails for assessments and assessment questions are now accessible from the Medical Assessment UI and can be included in the assessment PDF along with supplemental data audit trails

Use Case

Medical Assessors can now directly view assessments and assessment questions in the audit trail within the assessment module and PDF.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Study Design & Configuration

Features in this area apply to Studio, the study design and configuration area for Vault EDC.

Remove Subject Status Date on Status Rollback

As a subject progresses through a Study, Vault updates its Subject Status. When a subject’s status changes, Vault records the date that a subject entered that status. With this release, when data changes for a subject, if a Set Subject Status Rule that previously evaluated as true is now false, Vault clears the associated status change date.

This feature adds a new setting to Studio > Settings, Enable Subject Status Date Rollback.

Use Case

This change improves support for CTMS-integrated Studies.

Enablement

For existing Studies (created before 23R1), a study designer must enable this feature from Studio > Settings. For new Studies created after 23R1, this feature is automatically enabled.

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Rules Archive

When deleting rules, Vault now marks those deleted rules as Archived. After a user executes the Delete action against a Rule, Vault applies the Archived status, marks the rule as Inactive, and hides the rule from the User Defined Rules listing. Studio users can select the Show Archived Rules checkbox to show archived rules in the list. Archived rules have a green checkmark () in the Archived column.

Users can then view and restore these archived rules. Archived rules behave in the same way as Inactive rules. Vault excludes these rules from validations and documentation, deploys them (in the Archived status), and prevents users from marking them as Active. That prevents these rules from executing.

Use Case

This simplifies the deployment of rules. Users are now also able to restore deleted rules and view deleted rules for reference purposes.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled. It applies to all rules versions.

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SDS Enhancements

This release includes the following SDS enhancements:

  • Added columns for missing properties and system edit checks to the Schedule Tree tab and updated column headers and order of columns for consistency
  • Added missing columns to the Form Definitions tab, relabeled column headers to match UI, and removed obsolete/retired columns
  • Added Last Modified columns to Form Definitions and Schedule Tree
  • The “Include Rules” option is now checked by default when generating an SDS from Studio
  • Updated formatting of the Review Plan tab including newly-formatted rows for different object types to match the Form Definition tab and carried down column values for filtering
  • Removed obsolete columns and added a Form Label column in the Rules tab
  • Added Form Name and column headers to Schedule Grid tab
  • Updated the Summary tab for clarity
  • Added and updated columns on the Codelists and Unit Codelists tabs
  • Added Object Name columns to the Date Comparisons tab

Use Case

This feature provides better usability of the SDS.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Sort @PreviousEvent Rules by Schedule

Rules containing a @PreviousEvent identifier can now be configured to sort by Schedule order.

Use Case

When locating the Previous instance of an Event or Form, Study Designers do not always want to sort by Event Date, and instead sort based on the order of Events defined in the Studio Schedule. This feature adds additional flexibility to the new @PreviousEvent rule functionality added in the last release.

Enablement

This feature is automatically available for use in Studies using Expression Engine V2.

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Studio Usability Improvements

This release includes several usability improvements for Studio:

  • Schedule is now the default landing page when opening Studio.
  • The Comparison Report (diff report) no longer reflects changes to the rule action order that are controlled by the system.
  • We made some minor formatting, processing, and logging changes to export and import for study languages.
  • We relabeled the Future Date property as No Future Date to clarify the purpose of this property.
  • The default value for Repeat Maximum is now “50” instead of “9999”.
  • Studio users can edit library settings and some study settings after a Study is deployed.
  • If no Form Links are included in the study’s schedule, Studio doesn’t run validations against Form Links.
  • We added validation errors for unsupported uses of cross-form derivations.
  • Cross-form derivation rules that cause a circular reference between items will trigger a warning instead of a casebook validation error when the circular reference exists only within a single form.

Use Case

These changes improve the usability of Studio to speed study build delivery.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Study Administration

Features in this section apply to EDC Tools, a study-level administration area for Vault EDC.

Disable Manual Casebook Creation

EDC Tools now provides a setting for IRT-enabled studies that disables the + New Casebook button in the Data Entry tab. When the Disable Manual Casebook Creation checkbox is selected for a study, new casebooks can only be created via the external IRT integration. Users must have the Edit Study Settings permission to modify this setting.

Use Case

Customer’s with IRT (Interactive Response Technology)-enabled studies need a way to block casebook creation through the EDC UI. For these studies, new casebooks should only be created from external integration. This feature removes the need to create custom roles without the Add Casebook permission.

Enablement

This feature must be enabled in a Study via the Disable Manual Casebook Creation checkbox in Tools > EDC Tools > Settings.

Audit Event for Item Change Reason on Create

With this release, Vault will audit an Item’s Change Reason when the Item is created to support migrated data. If a migrated item has a change reason, the reason will be available in the item’s Audit Trail after the item is created.

Use Case

This feature supports migrations.

Enablement

This change applies automatically and is only applicable to migrated studies.

Changes to Planned DateTime & Event DateTime No Longer Included in Audit Trail

The Audit Trail will no longer display changes to the Event Datetime and Planned Datetime as these fields are no longer used in EDC.

Use Case

Parity with migrated data and removal of unnecessary data from the audit trail.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Removed Actions Menu from LMS External Connections

With this release, we removed the extraneous Actions menu icon from System Tools > External Connections > LMS External Connections.

Use Case

In the past, there has been a Actions menu icon (gear) denoting an Actions menu next to the LMS connection record that did not function. This icon has been eliminated to remove confusion.

Enablement

This feature is available by default.

Review Plan Assignment UI Enhancements

With this release we have introduced two new tabs to EDC Tools, Review Plan Assignment Criteria and Review Plan Manual Assignment, that take the place of the single Review Plan Assignment tab and subtabs. In addition, users can now search for site number in addition to site name in a Review Plan Assignment Sites field.

Use Case

These enhancements provide improved navigation and usability of the Review Plan Assignment section, and allow for more granular permission access to the Review Plan Assignment criteria and manual access pages.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically to Studies using V2 or V3 of Review Plan Assignment.

SDE: Add Object Definition Names to Extract

In the 23R1 version of the SDE, various Clinical and System datasets will include the following object definition names as new columns: Event Group Definition Name, Event Definition Name, Form Definition Name, Item Group Definition Name, and Item Definition Name.

The datasets impacted are listed below:

  • Clinical Datasets
  • SYS_EVT
  • SYS_FORM
  • SYS_ILB
  • SYS_LINKS
  • SYS_Q
  • SYS_PD
  • SYS_ASM

Use Case

This feature will allow users to look up the definition name from the labels to help with downstream analysis and mapping.

Enablement

Automatically enabled with SDE version 23R1.

SDE Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the 23R1 version of the SDE:

  • Users will have the option to select a boolean formatting type which will determine how booleans are displayed in both clinical and system datasets. This formatting doesn’t apply to the definitions files
  • If there are duplicate column headers, both the CSV and SAS files will follow a deduplication pattern of appending _2, _3, etc. to each additional repeating column. When running the “SAS with CSV and XPT”, Export File Type option, users will see an additional column for “SAS Column” in the Study Definitions file so that they can compare the column headers between CSV and SAS for any differences (such as SAS column header truncation for column headers greater than 32 characters in length)
  • The rows in the casebook_schedule.csv and casebook_definition_summary.csv files in the definitions folder will be ordered according to the studio study Schedule Design within each casebook version
  • The SYS_Q dataset will have a new column for the LASTCLOSEDDT (Query Last Close Date)

Use Case

These enhancements add more detail to the extract to help users with post-processing analysis of their clinical and operational data.

Enablement

Auto-on with the 23R1 version of SDE

SDE: New Lab Form Format

In the 23R1 version of the SDE, clinical forms configured with Local Labs will be formatted to decrease the number of columns outputted so that the dynamically-generated Labs columns will be shared across all Lab Analytes on the form instead of having multiple columns per analyte.

Use Case

This format makes Lab forms more readable for reviewing clinical data.

Enablement

Auto-on with the 23R1 version of the SDE

Enablement Change: SDE SAS Compression

This feature turns on the Enable SAS Artifact Compression feature for all Vaults, which compresses the SAS zip file. SDE Versions 22R1 and later will have SAS compression automatically enabled. Previous SDE versions will be affected by this enablement.

Use Case

SAS zip files will be compressed automatically when running the SDE.

Enablement

Automatically enabled in 23R1 for all Vaults.

Study Progress Listing Enhancements

Users can schedule up to one daily listing job to send to reports, unless the study is set as a priority study. Users can schedule two additional daily jobs for priority studies. When the study’s priority expires, Vault will also automatically expire the additional jobs.

Use Case

With this feature, Vault cleans up additional jobs after the study priority expires.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically in Studies using the Study Progress Listings in Reports feature.

Study Progress Listing Enhancements

With this release, we’ve made some small enhancements to the Study Progress Listings. These changes will be available in the CSV version of the listings that is generated in the Review tab or EDC Tools as well as the Report tab version of the listings.

Query Detail Listing changes:

  • New column for Form Status
  • New column for number of query messages

Event Progress Listing changes:

  • New columns for Event Date frozen and locked

Subject Progress Listing changes:

  • New columns for SDV Completion Date and DMR Completion Date

Form Progress Listing changes:

  • New columns for Intentionally Left Blank and ILB Date

Form Progress, Event Progress, and Study Summary Metrics Report:

  • Values are rounded to the nearest integer

Use Case

These enhancements provide users with more reporting metrics.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Labs

Features in this section are new features for the Labs module of Vault EDC.

Labs: Support for Multiple Languages

Users can upload translated values for codelists, units, and analytes in Local Labs.

Use Case

Local labs can support multiple languages.

Enablement

This feature is available automatically.

Lab Modifier Support for Number Data Type

With this release, users can enable Lab Modifiers for Number data types in the analyte library.

Use Case

Vault now supports Lab results with “>” or “<” for Number data types.

Enablement

This feature is available for Studies that have Data Model 2 and Global Labs enabled.

Role Management & Security

Features in this section are enhancements to the System Tools > Role Management and System Tools > Users areas, as well as changes to standard Study Roles, security, and access control in Vault CDMS.

Permission Grouping in Role Management

With this release, we have introduced grouping to the Role Management grid in System Tools. Users can expand and collapse these group sections to more easily navigate and find the correct permissions.

We replaced the Permissions section with multiple, categorical sections:

  • Data Entry
  • Queries
  • Review
  • Assessments
  • Study Administration
  • Coder
  • Study Design
  • Library
  • Protocol Deviations
  • Labs
  • Randomization
  • Site Closeout
  • CDB

Use Case

The Role Management grid contains many permissions and has been hard to navigate and find relevant permissions without an inordinate amount of vertical scrolling. This UI enhancement will greatly improve the UX of the Role Management grid, reducing frustration and time spent navigating.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

User Access Report

The new User Access Report provides User Administrators with a convenient report that details all access related audit data for users in that vault. The existing User Activity Report historically provided some of this data, but with this release we have introduced a comprehensive chronological log of role assignments and removals, site and country access changes, study assignment and access, and training status changes. The User Activity Report will still be available, but focuses on user activity such as login attempts and password changes.

Use Case

The User Activity Report was not designed to provide a comprehensive log of all access control related audit data. The User Access Report consolidates all of this historical data, from the creation of the vault, into any easily accessible validated report that can be provided in the event of an audit.

Enablement

This feature is available by default to users with the View Users permission.

User Activity Report Changes

We removed information related to user access (the Current Study Role, Study, Item, Old Value, and New Value columns) from the User Activity Report in preparation for a feature in a later release.

We also added the following tracked events for this report:

  • User Unlocked: The user successfully reset their password after being locked out.
  • Password Change Unsuccessful: The user attempted to change their password but was unsuccessful.
  • Logout Successful: The user logged out of Vault successfully.
  • User Inactivated: The user attempted to log in to an inactive account.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Study Role Enhancements

With this release, we made the following changes to permissions and standard Study Roles:

  • Added the CDB Tools permission and assigned it to the CDMS Data Manager and CDMS Lead Data Manager roles
  • Added the Configure CDB permission and assigned it to the CDMS Super User role
  • Added the Manage Review Plan Assignment Criteria and Manage Review Plan Manual Assignment permissions
  • Assigned the Manage Jobs permission to the CDMS Clinical Research Associate and CMDS Data Manager roles
  • Assigned the View Users permission to the CDMS API Read Only and CDMS API Read Write roles
  • Assigned the Edit Users permission to the CDMS API Read Write role

Use Case

These enhancements provide permissions to new sections of the application and ensure that roles are able to access and interact with the proper functionality.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Display Permission Dependencies in Role Management UI

This feature provides a tooltip in the editable Role Management grid when permissions are dependent on an already selected permission.

Use Case

Prior to this release, when creating or editing a custom role, users couldn’t easily determine why some permissions were automatically selected, or could not be cleared. This feature provides information on why a certain permission or permissions were added and can’t be removed.

Enablement

This feature is available by default.

Updates to Inactive Users

With this release, the system will automatically remove a user’s study access when they have been inactivated, and will disable the ability to edit an inactivated user’s details.

Use Case

Automatically removing a user’s study access when they have been inactivated will cut down on extraneous clicks, and will ensure that a User Admin does not inadvertently provide study access upon subsequent activation of a user. In addition, previously a user admin would receive a vague error message when attempting to edit an inactivated user’s details. This feature now removes that ambiguity and simply disables the ability to edit the profile of an inactive user.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

User Import Enhancements

This feature allows user administrators to make changes to a user’s Activation Date creating users via import from file. In addition, if an Activation Date is not specified, Vault uses the current date and indicates that in a warning during import preview.

Use Case

The system has always allowed changes to a user’s activation date in individual user management as long as the activation date is not in the past. This feature extends the same behavior to the bulk user import from file feature.

Enablement

These changes apply automatically.

Deployments

Features in this section are enhancements to deployment functionality in Vault CDMS.

Deploy from Development to Validation Environments

With this release we have provided the option to deploy from Development environments directly to Validation.

Use Case

Previously, the only deployment option to Validation was from UAT. With this feature, deployment administrators can save time by going directly from DEV to UAT.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled.

Prevent Post-Deployment Removal of Roles from Deployment List

This feature prevents the unintended removal of custom roles during a vault deployment by disabling the ability to remove a custom role from the deployment list if it has already been deployed.

Use Case

Previously, in vaults using the Multi-Role Security model, deployment administrators could inadvertently remove a custom role from a target vault if a previously deployed role was removed from the whitelist before a subsequent deployment. This feature removes this possibility by ensuring that a custom role cannot be removed from the whitelist if it has already been deployed.

Enablement

This feature is enabled by default for all vaults using the Multi-Role Security model.

Reconcile Missing References During Study Data Copy

This feature accommodates active changes to data while a Copy Study Data from Production operation is in process by only copying data that was static at the start of the copy job.

Use Case

Previously, if relevant data were actively deleted or created in Production while a Copy Study Data from Production was in progress, the copy job would fail. This feature allows the copy operation to complete even if data was actively being deleted or created.

Enablement

This feature is available by default.

Integrations

Features in this section are new integrations with Vault CDMS or enhancements to existing integrations.

E2BLink now provides the ability to include related information into a safety case beyond just what a site links to the serious adverse event. This includes medical history, concomitant medications, external lab forms, other adverse events, and study drug/product dispenses. Additionally, the ability for forms being linked by the site user as a method of inclusion can be blocked, if desired.

Use Case

Previously the only way to include related data to a safety case was through site linking, or very specific (and often less desirable) form designs. The feature allows for more flexible study design (forms), and ability to configure which related information should belong in the case. Some examples of auto inclusion:

  • All ongoing and concomitant medications at the time of SAE Start
  • All medical history ongoing or ended within 6 months
  • Include not just the study drug dispense closest to SAE start (on/before, the pre 23R1 behavior), but also others within 4 days of the SAE Start, on, or after.
  • Any other adverse event (serious or not) that has a start date +/- 3 days of the SAE’s start date.

Enablement

These settings are automatically available, but a safety administrator must configure these options before they apply to a study.

This feature accommodates two, important, time-sensitive scenarios:

  • The site user has filled out a serious AE form, but has neglected to do the first submit/complete action on the form. That action is what normally begins the safety workflow.
  • The site user has filled out a serious AE form, but neglected the AE term, by mistake. The value is required in most safety systems.

Either of these scenarios results in an email alert at 1 hour after the creation of the form. The alert goes to the user who created the form, plus any configured recipients (email groups, distribution lists). The recipients can be configured by country as well, i.e. subjects of specific countries only sent to certain email lists.

Use Case

Safety cases are most urgently time sensitive on the first report from EDC, often just a few days (if not less) for further notification to regulatory agencies. This feature will ensure the timely alerting of cases where sites are omitting important steps that are necessary to ensure the start of safety case data transfer.

Enablement

These settings are automatically available, but a safety administrator must configure these options before they apply to a study.

Prior to this release, E2BLink transferred several static values to the safety system. With this release, safety administrators can configure which values are sent, instead of the CDMS default values for these fields.

The following values are now configurable:

Field E2B ID Default Value Description
Subject ID E2B Location D.1 Patient Name or Initials Location of the EDC Subject ID in the E2B XML files
Subject ID Format in E2B N/A Country ISO-Site-Subject Format of the EDC Subject ID in the E2B XML files
Sender Type E2B Value C.3.1 Pharmaceutical Company Qualification type of the assessment of the drug, as it relates to adverse events for the case
Primary Source Qualification E2B Value C.2.r.4 Other Health Professional Specialty classification of study drugs, when a site user has indicated that the concomitant medication (in the case data) is classified as Suspect
Study Drug Classify when ConMed Suspect G.k.1 Always Interacting For cases when a user is classifying a Concomitant Medication via an Item to Form link, and user chooses SUSPECT, then this classification is to be instead used for Study Drug classifications of the Safety Case.

Use Case

Safety administrators have further control over what information is included in the safety case.

Enablement

These settings are automatically available, but a safety administrator must configure these options before they apply to a study.

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Clinical DataBase (CDB)

The following are new features for the CDB application, the Vault CDMS solution for data cleaning and reporting.

Availability: Clinical DataBase (CDB) is only available to CDB license holders. Contact your Veeva Services representative for details.

Clean Patient Tracker

Data Workbench will provide a new Subject-centric page for data managers to review the cleanliness of each patient. Data managers will be able to filter the grid by cleaning activities and study meta data such as site, country, cohort etc. Data managers will be able to quickly take action on a subject such as reviewing and closing answered queries.

Use Case

Data managers need to provide complete and clean patient data throughout the lifetime of a study. Today study teams use Excel and/or custom solutions to pull data together then manually mark subjects that are deemed clean and ready for lock. This process is time consuming, limited and prone to errors. With the clean patient grid, data managers will be able to track the cleanliness of the subjects and take direct action on data management cleaning activities.

Enablement

The Clean Patient Tracker is automatically available.

Clone Listings from Study

Data managers and clinical programmers will also be able to select multiple Listings (Checks and Views) from a defined source study(s) and clone them into their current study. The system will provide a validation summary for each object indicating whether that object is compatible or incompatible with the target study design. The user will be able to review the validation summary, make necessary changes and import the desired cloned objects with their associated statuses (compatible, incompatible). Once imported these cloned objects can be reviewed, modified, and deployed to production.

Use Case

Clinical trials, especially those associated with the same therapeutic area share similar study designs and have very similar data management plans and reporting structures. When designing studies… reviews, edit checks and reports must be designed and built for each study. This can be time consuming and lead to unnecessary inconsistencies between similar studies. Users will now be able to easily reuse these building blocks, minimizing development time and errors that could be introduced in the process.

Enablement

The ability to clone Listings from a Study will be auto enabled in the Test environment only. All studies in the test environment, by default, will be set to not cloneable. An administrator will be able to designate which studies can be source study.

Configure Core Data Listings

Administrators can now configure Core Listings. This configuration includes the ability to select which study attributes to include and which formats to use, such as always using raw format for datetimes or always including Translated Value and Translated UOM. Configuration is subject to a review and approval process.

Configurations apply to all Core Listings within a vault.

This feature adds a new Configure Core Data Listings page to CDB.

Use Case

Core data listings are out-of-the-box listings that correspond to each Form represented in the study. Data managers may prefer a specific format and specific set of study attributes be included in all of Core Listings. With the ability to configure these sets at a vault level, clinical programmers will save a substantial amount of time by not having to recreate each core listing individually.

Enablement

The ability to configure core data listings is automatically enabled. For existing listings, the default configuration remains the same. An administrator must review and approve configuration changes before CDB applies the changes.

Third Party External ID Support

Users can provide a row external id in their manifest file when importing non-EDC data to be used to identify a unique row of data that queries are associated with. Once ingested, this Row External ID will be accessible via the @QRY dataset and in the Core Query Listings.

Use Case

This provides a method to pass through an identifier for users to identify a row of data that is tied to a query.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled. A user must edit a manifest file to use it.

Listing Search & Favorites

With this release, CDB users can mark listings, checks, and views as Favorites. They can manage their favorites from the Favorites panel, which is accessible via the Favorites () button in the top navigation menu.

Users can now also search for listings from any page within the application. Search has moved into the top navigation bar. Prior to this release, users could only search from the Listings page.

Use Case

Navigation is an essential part of the user experience and enables data managers to access data as quickly and intuitively as possible.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled.

Study Search & Last Listing Visited

Users can now search for specific Studies from the Studies page in Workbench. Workbench also displays a link to the Last Listing Visited on this page, which opens the last listing that the current user visited.

Use Case

Navigation is an essential part of the user experience and enables data managers to access data as quickly and intuitively as possible.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled.

Fill CQL Function

When clinical data items from a non-repeating Item Group and a repeating Item Group are combined in a listing, CQL shows CQL NULL values for non-repeating Items where the Item Group Sequence Number (@ItemGroup.SeqNbr) is greater than 1. Because non-repeating items only have a sequence number of 1, and it isn’t possible to collect data for sequence numbers greater than 1 for non-repeating items. CQL uses CQL NULL to represent item values for which it was not possible to collect clinical data.

The fill function takes one argument which is a data item in a non-repeating Item Group. The fill function will return a new column in which CQL NULL values will be replaced with the argument data item. This function is applied at the form instance level.

Use Case

The fill function provides a way to replace the CQL NULL values in a custom listing.

Enablement

This function is available automatically.

Open Listing in a New Tab

With this release, CDB allows users to access multiple listings simultaneously across different browser tabs. Users can open a listing in a new tab.

Use Case

Users may need to access multiple listings at one time. With this feature, it’s easier for users to compare different sources of data quickly and efficiently.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled.

Export Audit Logs Track Blinding Changes

CDB now tracks the following changes to package blinding in the audit log for Export Definitions:

  • Export definition marked as Blinded
  • Export definition marked as Unblinded

Enablement

This feature is available automatically. Any changes to package blinding are captured by the audit log following this release.

Migration Vault

Features in this section are new features for Migration Vault.

Create Repaired Forms as Facades

This update to the Repair process ensures that all Forms created by repair are created as Facades (blank forms). Prior to this release, these forms were in the In Progress status.

Use Case

When Forms are placed “In Progress” there is the implication to Users that they must submit the Form. With this enhancement, Users can leave the Forms as Facades and not have to submit them. Furthermore, when a Form is first created in EDC, it’s created as a Facade, so this behavior would mimic existing EDC functionality.

Enablement

This is automatically enabled and can’t be disabled.

Migration: UI Redesign - New Rules Steps

These enhancements to the Load workflow automate the rules steps of the migration process.

Use Case

With these enhancements, users are no longer required to execute the rules one batch-at-a-time. This feature automates the Rules process, saving users from having to spend significant time executing and monitoring the lengthy process.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled. Migration users have the option to skip these optional steps.

Notify Users after Step Completion

This feature introduces two new Notifications that are sent to Users after a Step has completed. One notification utilizes the system’s Notification Service, while the other one involves informing the user by email.

Use Case

Users need to be notified after any of the steps are complete so that they know when and if the next step can begin.

Enablement

This is automatically enabled and can’t be disabled.

Migration: UI Redesign - Validate & Stage, Run, Post-Run

This release introduces a new design to make the workflow more intuitive and the UI more user-friendly. This feature focuses on the design of existing load workflow steps: Validate & Stage, Run, and Post-Run. Part of this design is the Workflow Progress table. This table does the following:

  • Walks users through each Step of the Load workflow
  • Provides controls to execute or skip each Step
  • Provides a consistent user experience when viewing the results of completed Steps
  • Provides quicker access and greater detail for any errors and warnings that may occur during a Step

This feature removes the extraneous Run step from the Load workflow, simplifying the Migration workflow.

Use Case

This design makes the Load workflow more intuitive and makes the UI more user-friendly. Users can quickly review load progress with fewer clicks in the new Workflow Progress table.

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UI Redesign: Validate & Stage, Run, Post-Run

This release introduces a new design to make the workflow more intuitive and the UI more user-friendly. This feature focuses on the design of existing load workflow steps: Validate & Stage, Run, and Post Run. Part of this design is the Workflow Progress table. This table does the following:

  • Walks users through each Step of the Load workflow
  • Provides controls to execute or skip each Step
  • Provides a consistent user experience when viewing the results of completed Steps
  • Provides quicker access and greater detail for any errors and warnings that may occur during a Step

This feature removes the extraneous “Run” step from the Load workflow, simplifying the Migration workflow.

Use Case

This design makes the Load workflow more intuitive and makes the UI more user-friendly. Users can quickly review load progress with fewer clicks in the new Workflow Progress table.

Enablement

This feature is automatically enabled.