About Administrator Privileges for Maintaining RDC

Any user who wants to be able to define, configure, and maintain the features in RDC must have RDC administrator privileges.

By default, the following user roles have the required administrator privileges for defining and maintaining RDC:

• RXC_ADMIN
• RXC_SUPER
• RXC_SUPER_NOGL
• RXC_DES
• RXC_DMGR

See the Oracle Clinical Administrator's Guide for information on creating user accounts and user roles with RDC administrator privileges.

In this section:

• About Database Roles for RDC Users
  
• About User Roles with Limited Administrator Privileges
  

About Database Roles for RDC Users

You must explicitly grant every RDC user at least one database role. You can use the predefined database roles listed in Default Database Roles Defined for RDC Users, selecting the role that matches the user's job function, or define additional database roles if you need to further fine-tune security privileges.

These database roles are mapped to user roles in the USER_GROUP_ROLES installation reference codelist. Those roles allow users to define security privileges and to customize various aspects of the RDC user interface.

See the Oracle Clinical Administrator's Guide for information on granting database roles to user accounts and creating additional database roles.

Table 1-1 Default Database Roles Defined for RDC Users

Database Role	Typical User Profile
RXC_DMGR	Data manager
RXC_SUPER	Data manager
RXC_CRA	Clinical Research Associate (CRA)
RXC_SITE	Site user, study coordinator, or other person at the remote site responsible for entering patient data
RXC_INV	Investigator at the remote site who can approve CRFs

About User Roles with Limited Administrator Privileges

Users granted administrator privileges in Oracle Clinical can define, configure, and maintain all the features in RDC. In addition to those roles, you can identify a different set of user roles with limited administrator privileges.

Specifically, you can:

• Create a user role where the user has the privilege to define news content, but not perform other administrator tasks.
• Create a user role where the user has the privilege to upgrade DCI Forms, but not perform other administrator tasks.

Note that the process you use to create the user roles that can define news content or upgrade DCI Forms is different from the process for creating the user roles for other administrative privileges.

For more information on defining user roles with these limited administrator privileges, see the following sections:

• Creating User Roles that Can Define News Items Only
• Creating User Roles that Can Upgrade DCI Forms Only