About in-place revisions

An in-place revision (IPR) allows you to make a study design change and apply it to existing study versions that were previously deployed to the InForm application. When you update a study by deploying a new study version, you can only modify forms that have not been started in the InForm application. However, the in-place revision feature allows you to modify an item on a form and deploy the changes to all instances of the form in a specified study version, including forms that were started or completed in that study version.

You create an in-place revision on a top-level item or a section by navigating to the layout view of a form that you select in the Visit Schedule Explorer bar. The annotated study book for a study optionally includes a listing of the in-place revisions created for a study.

Before you can make an in-place revision to a study, you must:

Be assigned to a role with the Apply in-place revisions right. For more information, see the Administrator Guide.
Be assigned to the study team for the study on which you are performing an in-place revision. For more information, see Setting up study teams.
Set up a deployment instance for the study. For more information, see Setting up deployment instances.