Keep the InForm data model in sync between the Development and QC lifecycles

• Recommendation: Refrain from promoting your InForm data model until you are ready to QC all data models and transformations. After you promote, make sure to continue promoting all changes so that the study in each lifecycle is consistent.

• Rationale: It is important to keep the InForm study versions as consistent as possible between lifecycles. Interim changes that are not promoted to higher lifecycles can cause deprecated object references, which creates objects in invalid states in the InForm QC data model.

• Additional information: If you add or remove forms during review rounds, each lifecycle that has a defined data model should see the different metadata versions in order to properly manage the changes in each lifecycle.