Setting Up Image Viewing

You may need to include your company logo or medical diagrams in Patient Data Reports (PDRs) or CRFs. Beginning in Oracle Clinical 5.0, there is a single directory for images used as follows:

• Oracle Clinical Reports Server looks for images for the Patient Data Report and the Layout Editor PDF Preview feature

• Oracle Clinical Layout Editor also looks for images used in CRFs in the HTML Preview feature

• RDC Onsite looks for images displayed in CRFs during data entry in RDC Onsite

For more information, see:

• Put Images in dcif_images Directory
  
• Sharing the Images Directory
  
• Automatic Setup During Installation
  
• Changing the Images Directory Location
  

Put Images in dcif_images Directory

You must place all the images required for image viewing in these three features in the crfimages directory, which is created during installation by the Installer in OPA_HOME\html\rdc\dcif_images. By default, OPA_HOME is opapps52.

Sharing the Images Directory

If the only report server that you use to generate DCI forms co-exists on the same computer with the forms server, there is no need to share the images directory and the path specification can be a simple local directory name, such as, c:\opapps52\html\rdc\dcif_images\crfimages.

If any reports server used for DCI forms generation is located on a different computer than the forms server, then:

• The path specification used for the value of RDC_DCIF_IMAGES must use the UNC format.

• The forms server images directory must be shared, so it can be accessed from other computers.

• The domain/account_used_to_set_up_the_Reports_Server must have read/write privileges on the shared forms server directory.

For example, if, during initial installation, you reply to the Installer that there is a standalone report server, the Installer sets this the value of this key to:

• \\appserver\rdc\dcif_images

and requires that you share drive:\opapps52\html\rdc with the share name "rdc".

Automatic Setup During Installation

The Installer automatically does the following:

• Creates the dcif_images directory in OPA_HOME\html\rdc

• Enters the dcif_images directory location in the rdcConfig.properties with key as crf_images_path.

• Enters the crfimages alias location as the dcif_images directory's location in the opa52_httpd.conf file found in Middleware_Home\Oracle_Home_FR\user_projects\domains\FRdomain\config\fmwconfig\components\OHS\ohs1\moduleconf.

• Places the properties files in the OPA_HOME/config directory.

• Populates all registry variable values required for image viewing, including:

  • OPA_CONFIG_FOLDER, which contains the full path of the config directory

  • RDC_DCIF_IMAGES

  • RDC_DCIF_IMAGES_URL

  • HTML_DCIF_IMAGES_URL, which must have the same value as RDC_DCIF_IMAGES_URL

Changing the Images Directory Location

Oracle recommends using the default location. You can change it but you must change each thing the Installer does automatically.

Note:

The Patient Data Report template generation process fails if the report server cannot locate the path to the dcif_images directory and the image file for each each CRF that contains an image in its layout.