Overview of InForm administration

Administrative data specifies system configuration parameters for a study, who is running a study, and how the InForm application distributes the workload.

All study parameters are defined in the Central Designer application, and then deployed to the InForm application. After deployment, you can modify some study parameters through the InForm Admin user interface, or by editing XML files and installing them using the MedML Installer utility. Some parameters can only be modified in the Central Designer application. For more information, see InForm administration tasks.

• Use the InForm Admin user interface to modify study elements such as users, groups, and sites one at a time.

  This guide provides instructions for configuring administrative features through the InForm Admin user interface.

• Use MedML and the MedML Installer utility to modify the definitions of multiple study elements and load them into the database in batch mode.
  • MedML—The Oracle XML for representing and exchanging clinical data definitions created in the InForm application.
  • MedML Installer utility—A utility that parses the XML files you generate with MedML tags, validates them against the MedML schema and the constraints enforced by the database schema, and loads the study components they define into the database.

  For more information, see the Utilities Guide.