Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration

To set up ClearTrial integration for clinical trip reports, perform the following tasks:

• "Completing Prerequisites for ClearTrial Integration"

• "Activating Workflows for ClearTrial Integration"

• "Configuring Web Services for ClearTrial Integration"

• "Configuring the Date and Time Format for ClearTrial Integration"

• "Configuring System Preferences for Clinical Operations Integration"

Completing Prerequisites for ClearTrial Integration

To configure the ClearTrial integration, the ClearTrial connector must be configured and running. For more information about the ClearTrial connector, see Appendix A, "ClearTrial Clinical Trial Management System Connector."

This task is a step in "Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration".

Activating Workflows for ClearTrial Integration

This task describes how to activate the workflows that are required for ClearTrial integration. You can use Siebel Business Process Designer to modify the workflows to suit your own business model. For more information, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide

This task is a step in "Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration".

To activate workflows for ClearTrial integration  

1. Navigate to the Administration - Business Process screen, then the Workflow Deployment view.

2. Query for and activate the LS Clinical Get Study Plan Information workflow.

3. Verify that the activated workflows are added to the Active Workflow Processes view at the bottom of the screen.

Configuring Web Services for ClearTrial Integration

This task describes how to configure the inbound Web services that are required for ClearTrial integration. For more information about configuring Web services, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

Note: It is recommended that you use HTTPS authentication. For information about configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for HTTPS authentication, see Siebel Security Guide.

This task is a step in "Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration".

To configure Web services for ClearTrial integration  

1. Navigate to the Administration - Web Services screen, then the Inbound Web Services view.

2. Query for each of the following Web services, and update the language and address variables:

   • LS Clinical CRF Tracking Interface

   • LS Clinical Protocol Site Interface Service

   • LS Clinical Subject Information Interface Service

3. Click Clear Cache on the Inbound Web Services applet.

Configuring the Date and Time Format for ClearTrial Integration

The Universal Time Coordinated date and time format is required for ClearTrial integration. When integrating with ClearTrial, you must set the UTCCanonical attribute in each ClearTrial integration Web service to Y.

This task is a step in "Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration".

You configure the date and time format in each integration Web service as follows:

• Set UTCCanonical to Y to export the dates in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) format.

• Set UTCCanonical to N or null to export the dates in the format currently configured in Siebel Clinical.

The default value is null. Change the value to:

<asi:UTCCanonical>Y</asi:UTCCanonical>

Configuring System Preferences for Clinical Operations Integration

This topic describes the system preferences to configure for an integration with a clinical operations application. The examples apply to integration with Oracle ClearTrial.

This task is a step in "Process of Setting Up ClearTrial Integration".

To configure system preferences for clinical operations integration  

1. Navigate to the Administration - Application screen, then the System Preferences view.

2. Configure the system preferences described in the following table.

   System Preference	Comments
   CL - BudgetingApp CustomerCode	Set the value to the ID number of the sponsor or organization conducting the trial. When integrating with ClearTrial, this field is populated with the value in the Customer Code field.
   CL - BudgetingApp RequestURL	Set the value to the budgeting or tracking application's Web service request URL, such as http://host name:port name/external budgeting application-ws/. When integrating with ClearTrial, this field is set to http://host name:port name/cleartrial-ws/.

   
   

3. Restart the Siebel Server.