Creating a data series

Note: In CDD and CIS data mappings, the order in which you add data series to a data set determines the order of items in the CDD or Clintrial target table. You cannot change the order after a data series is added to a data set except by modifying the Item Order property in the Clintrial Design module after the data mappings are synchronized to the Clintrial application.

Data Series Properties dialog box—Option descriptions

Option	Description
Title	Name of the data series in the data set.
RefName	RefName of the data series in the data set.
Description	Description of the data series in the data set.
Alias	Alias for the data series. If an alias is present, it is used as the column name in the customer-defined database (CDD) or as the Clintrial item name in CIS mappings. If an alias is not present, the RefName is used as the column header. Because RefNames must be unique throughout a study, you must create an alias if the RefName is used by a study object. Data series aliases must be unique within a data set. Checking for RefName and alias uniqueness is case insensitive; for example, the names BP and bp are considered identical.
Type	Data type of the data series.

The data types of an item and data series must be compatible for you to add the item to the data series. The following table indicates the item types that you can add to each data series type.

Item types that you can add to each type of data series

Item type	Text	Integer	Float	Date time
Text item	Yes	No	No	No
Integer item	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Float item	Yes	No	Yes	No
Date time item	Yes. You are asked if you want to choose part of the date or the whole date.	Yes. You are asked to choose the part of the date.	No	Yes