Set up study and library groupings

Add a set of study groups to organize studies in a logical way. Codelists and library clinical data models use the same organization. Users select a grouping when they create a study or library object, and when they search for a study template, clinical data model, transformation, or validation check to reuse.

For example, you can organize studies and library objects by project, drug, or therapeutic area. The user interface label for study groupings is Project, but you can change it by resetting a profile. See Change the study grouping user interface label.

When deciding how to organize your studies, consider:

• You can create only one flat list of values. So to organize studies by drug as well as therapeutic area you must create groupings like "Cardiology Drug A" and "Cardiology Drug B."
• If you have clinical data models (sets of tables) generic enough to be used in multiple groupings, create a "Generic" grouping.
• The grouping becomes the namespace for its studies and library objects. This has implications for user security privileges: if you assign a user group to the study grouping, the user group is assigned to all studies and library objects in the grouping. A study configurator can revoke the assignment and assign different user groups to the study.

Study groups are Oracle LSH domains. For information on creating them using APIs, see the Oracle Health Sciences Life Sciences Warehouse Application Programming Interface Guide.

When you create a study in the DMW user interface, the system creates it as a subdomain in the selected study group domain.

To create study groups in the LSH user interface:

1. Log in to Oracle LSH. Expand the Life Sciences Data Hub node on the left and click Applications.
2. In the Applications window, click the Search icon next to the Select Domain field.
3. Select Search By Domain Name, enter DMW_DOMAIN, then click Go.
4. Click the Quick Select icon for DMW_DOMAIN.
5. Click the Create Child icon for DMW_DOMAIN.
6. From the Select Child list, select Domain and click OK.
7. Enter a name exactly the way you want it to appear in the user interface. Do not use special characters (except _) or reserved words.
8. Click Apply.