Soft-Deleting RDCIs

An RDCI corresponds to a CRF, or Oracle Clinical "document". The only change you can make to an RDCI through the RDCI Soft Deletes Mass Change utility is to delete the entire CRF.

You might want to do this, for example, if an operator logged in many RDCIs under the wrong study. You cannot use Mass Changes to correct these errors; the RDCIs need to be properly re-entered.

The system maintains a record of the existence of the RDCI for audit purposes; it is not deleted entirely (hard-deleted).

To soft-delete RDCIs, do the following:

1. From the Conduct menu, select Mass Changes, then select RDCI Soft Deletes.
2. Create an MCS the same way you do for other types of mass changes.
   See Defining a Mass Change Specification and Its Criteria.
3. Click Create CDS to generate the CDS containing all the RDCIs that meet the criteria you set in the MCS.
4. Click Go CDS to view the generated CDS. Each row represents one RDCI, or CRF, identified by its document number.
5. Carefully review each RDCI to determine if you really want to delete it. If not, select it and click the Exclude button. You can use Shift+Click and Ctrl+Click to select more than one record at a time, or from the Special menu, select Select All and then select records and click Include to delete just those records.
   The system changes the status of the excluded records to IG.
6. (Optional) Click the Validate button to test the changes. The system tests all records with a status of UN.
7. Click Apply to apply the changes to the database. The system soft-deletes all RDCIs in the CDS with a status of UN or VS. The system retains a record of each soft-deleted RDCI for audit purposes, but no longer uses or processes the data in any way.