Validation and deployment definitions

Approval

Consent to deploy a study directly to the InForm application, given by a user with the appropriate rights.

Baseline

A snapshot of all components in a study. Validation creates a baseline.

Baselines Browser

A browser in which you view the results of validation and make temporary baselines public so that other users can work with them.

Deployment

The process of sending a study to a target application. To collect data, a study must be deployed into a target application as a complete deployment package.

There are two types of deployment:

• Automated—A study design is moved directly from the Central Designer application to the InForm environment.
• Manual—You must deliver and install a deployment package to the InForm environment.

Deployment instance

The environment to which you deploy a study.

Deployment request

A request to deploy a study directly to the InForm application.

• If your study is configured so that deployment requests require approval, the user who makes the request must have the appropriate rights to deploy the study to the InForm application.
• If your study is configured so that deployment requests do not require approval, the user who makes the request does not need to have the appropriate rights to deploy the study to the InForm application.

Jobs Browser

A browser in which you view the results of asynchronous jobs, such as validation or import.

Pending Approvals tab

A tab on the Home page in which you view, approve, or reject deployment requests that are waiting your approval, and review approval records.

Study validation

The process of checking the status of a study to indicate if the study is ready for deployment. The study validation process determines whether all essential components exist and are consistent.

Target application

The application (for example, the InForm application) on which a completed deployment package runs.