1. Study Builder Recommendations
  2. InForm integration
  3. Run a full data model installation after an InForm UAT study reset

Run a full data model installation after an InForm UAT study reset

  • Recommendation: If you perform an InForm UAT study reset, we recommend that you run a full installation for the InForm data model.

  • Rationale: An InForm UAT reset wipes out metadata and clinical data from the UAT study so that a new study design can be tested. In DMW, when you run a full installation, DMW drops and recreates all tables, and their data. As a result, you can make sure that objects and data that were removed in InForm are removed in DMW.

  • Additional information: Good InForm SDLC dictates that UAT should be a simulation of the Live InForm study configuration. In order to keep this accurate, you must reset the InForm study in between rounds of testing so that only Central Designer deployments that were deployed or will potentially be deployed to Production are present and installed in the UAT study. These InForm resets wipe all data from the InForm study between rounds of testing, and when you redeploy, new unique IDs are created for metadata columns like VISITID, FORMID, ITEMSETID, etc.

    In DMW, tables in the InForm data model and in the InForm operational views do not drop data that was deleted in InForm after the study reset. The only way to make sure DMW data accurately reflects the current state of the InForm study is to run a full install to load the latest metadata has been loaded. The correct procedure for this is as follows:

    1. Reset the InForm UAT study.

    2. Deploy packages from Central Designer to InForm.

    3. In DMW, reload metadata changes to the Development lifecycle.

    4. Run a Full Installation in the Development lifecycle.

    5. Import clinical data to the Development lifecycle.

    6. Promote the study to the QC lifecycle.

    7. Run a Full Installation in the QC lifecycle.

    8. Import clinical data to the Development lifecycle.

    Note that you only need to promote the changes to QC and perform that Full install if you have already promoted InForm to QC before the change. This recommendation also assumes that both DEV and QC lifecycles are integrated to the same InForm UAT study.

Parent topic: InForm integration