Stack 13.3: What's New?

Study Archiving

This release allows archiving studies that are no longer needed. There is a new Archived status that can be set for each study environment on the Share page. Once a study environment (Production or Test) has been set to Archived status, that environment will be inaccessible in Study Runner and automated features like rules, scheduled extract jobs, and Insight refresh will cease to function. Studies with both environments archived will be filtered out of the My Studies page by default and will instead be listed as Retired studies. Study Designer and Settings are still accessible for archived studies. Study environments can be unarchived and will resume normal functionality. Users must confirm archiving or unarchiving any study environment.

Bulk Participant Signing

Data Specialists and Investigators can now select multiple signable participants on the Participant Matrix with a checkbox, or ‘Select All’, and sign them in bulk using the same process they would use to sign a single participant. Up to one hundred participants can be signed at once. The logic for determining whether a participant record can be signed is not changed as part of this release.

Links to each participant details page are provided for reference when completing the signature process.

Updated Signature Attestation

The standard OpenClinica signature attestation has been updated. Event signatures now explicitly list the forms within the event that the signature covers, excluding forms not accessible to the signing user and forms not started.

Signature page:

Signature displayed on forms in the event:

Recent Form/Participant Links

The Quick Access panel on the left sidebar in Study Runner will now include a list of the user’s most recently accessed participants and forms in the current session. Participant links will send the user to the participant details page for that participant, and form links will reopen that form record. Links may be condensed to fit in the space available, but hovering over them will show the full event and form name for each one. Each study or site a user accesses will have its own list of recently accessed records.

User confirmation on first time publishing a study to Production

To ensure publishing users are aware of the implications of publishing a new study to the Production environment, they are now prompted for confirmation before publishing a new study to the Production environment for the first time. There is no confirmation prompt when publishing the same study to Production subsequent times or when publishing to the Test environment.

Performance Improvements, Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

General performance improvements, enhancements, and bug fixes have been added to OpenClinica.

See full release notes for Stack 13.3 here.