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:
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Oracle Clinical Reports Server looks for images for the Patient Data Report and the Layout Editor PDF Preview feature
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Oracle Clinical Layout Editor also looks for images used in CRFs in the HTML Preview feature
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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
Parent topic: Setting Up File and Image Viewing
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 opapps54.
Parent topic: Setting Up Image Viewing
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:\opapps54\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:
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The path specification used for the value of RDC_DCIF_IMAGES must use the UNC format.
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The forms server images directory must be shared, so it can be accessed from other computers.
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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
:\opapps54\html\rdc
with the share
name "rdc".
Parent topic: Setting Up Image Viewing
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 opa54_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
Parent topic: Setting Up Image Viewing
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.
Parent topic: Setting Up Image Viewing