Reviewing comments across a single form and one or more subjects, visits, or sites

Use this procedure to review form-level and item-level comments for a single form to make sure that clinical data has not been entered as comments that are not reflected in the form data.

Note: Comments on deleted repeating forms or itemsets do not appear in the Comments View.

1. Navigate to the Record Listing View in the Data Viewer.

   For more information, see Displaying the Record Listing View.

2. Filter the data.

   For more information, see Filtering data for all views in the Data Viewer.

3. In the toolbar, click the View Comments icon ( ).

   The Comments View appears in a separate browser window. For a description of the fields on this page, see Components—Comments View.

   Because the Comments View appears in a separate window, you can reference the current Data Viewer view side-by-side with the Comments View.

   The Comments View displays the form-level and item-level comments for the current form, which are filtered using the existing filtering criteria.

   • If text appears in the Item column, the comment is an item-level comment.
   • If text does not appear in the Item column, the comment is a form-level comment.
4. To sort the data, click on any column heading.

   The default sort order is the selected column, followed by the site, subject, visit sequence, and then form mnemonic. For more information, see Sorting data in the Data Viewer.

5. To filter the comments data, click the Filter icon ( ) at the top of the Comments View window.

   The Filters dialog box appears. For a description of the fields on this page, see Filters pane—Data Viewer.

6. To find the form where a comment was entered, click on a row in the Comments View, and click Go to Record Listings.

   The Record Listing View Single Subject view appears, and highlights the form where the comment was entered.

   You can perform InForm actions on the selected record in the Record Listing Single Subject View, or you can navigate to the form to review the whole form.

Note: The Comments View remains open until you close it, or until you log out of the InForm application. Only one Comments View window can be open at a time. If a Comments View is open, and you select the View Comments option again, the same Comments View window is reused.