Temporarily Allow Destructive Changes

If your new version contains a destructive change, and you have determined that it’s necessary, contact Veeva Support. Veeva will review your changes and, if they are approved, will temporarily enable the ability to make destructive changes in your vault. Once Veeva Support enables that feature for your vault, you can enable it for your Study.

Learn more about destructive changes.

Prerequisites

Feature Enablement

Contact Veeva Support to have Veeeva review approve your changes. After approval, Veeva will temporarily enable this feature in your vaults.

Required Permissions

The tasks below must be performed by a user with the Vault Owner security profile.

Enable Destructive Changes for a Study

You must enable this feature in the production (PRD) study environment in which you want to perform the retrospective amendment. In non-production environments, no enablement is required. To deploy your changes into production and perform amendments, perform the steps below in the production environment only.

Prerequisite: Veeva Support must first enable the ability to make destructive changes in your vault before you can enable it for your Study. Contact Veeva Support for enablement.

To enable destructive changes for a Study:

  1. Navigate to Admin > Business Admin > Study Settings.
  2. Click + Create.
  3. For Name, enter “disable_retro_error_on_deletion”.
  4. For Study, enter the name of your study environment (for example, “Cholecap” or “Labrinone”).
  5. For Value, enter “true”.
  6. Click Save.

Run the Amendment

You can now run your retrospective amendment.

When finished, we recommend either deleting the Study Setting record or setting the Value to “false”. Then, contact Veeva Support to disable this feature in your vault.