DCF Print Status

In addition to the DCF Status, which reflects the DCF's stage in the discrepancy review process, DCFs also have a Print Status. Each time you print the DCF, you enter the Print Status for the current run.

Oracle Clinical enforces the sequence of the DCF Print Status as follows:

Table 5-5 DCF Print Status Sequence

DCF's Print Status	Valid Subsequent Print Status
(DCF not printed)	DRAFT, FINAL
DRAFT	DRAFT, FINAL
FINAL	REPRINT, COPY
REPRINT	REPRINT, COPY
COPY	REPRINT, COPY

If the DCF has not been printed or has been printed using Print Status of DRAFT, then the only valid Print Status is DRAFT or FINAL. You can run a DRAFT report for a DCF as many times as you want, but you can run a FINAL report only once.

When you print a DCF Report with a print status of FINAL, the system assigns a release number of zero to that printing, and creates a page release number of zero for each page.

If the DCF has been printed using Print Status of FINAL and another DCF needs to be printed, you must select a Print Status of REPRINT or COPY:

• Setting the Print Status to REPRINT creates a new release with a new release number (incremented by one). If discrepancies have been resolved or released since the last time the DCF Report was run, the content of the report will differ, and pages may change.

• Setting the Print Status to COPY results in an exact copy of the last run of the report. Even if individual discrepancy statuses have changed, the report is exactly the same as it was at the last run, and has the same release number.

You can see the page-specific contents of a specific version of a DCF Report in the DCF Pages window (see Tracking DCF Pages).