Associate a topic with a product-event combination

Follow these steps to associate a topic with a product-event combination.

1. In the left navigation pane, click the Signal Review icon ().
2. (Optional) From the Products By drop-down list, select a product grouping, then select a card to filter the Products table.
3. Click the product's Row Action Menu () and select View Product-Event Combinations, or click the product name or total count.
4. Click the product-event combination's Row Action Menu () and click Submit Review.
5. From the Comment drop-down list, select one of the comments defined for your signal configuration.

   If no comment yet exists for the product-event combination, then the Comment drop-down list displays <Select a comment>. To clear the existing comment, from the Comment drop-down list, select <Clear Comment>.

6. To suppress a product-event combination, select the Suppress product-event combination check box.
7. (Optional) In the Detailed comment text box, enter a detailed comment.
8. If signal management is integrated with Oracle Empirica Topics, then you can associate a topic with a given product-event combination. If the product-event combination is already associated, click Change to modify the association. The topic workflow configuration in use appears above these choices. Select one of the following:
   • None—Use this option if you do not want to associate a topic with the product-event combination. This is the default option if no topic has been associated with the product-event combination. If you select this option, comments and detailed comments are still logged but no topic is associated with the product-event combination.
   • Existing topic—Use this option to associate an existing topic with the product-event combination. As you type characters, a drop-down list of matching topic names is displayed. You can click Browse to select from a list of existing topics. Available topics are those that you can edit, ones you created, or topics that have been made visible to work teams you are in. If you select this option, comments and detailed comments are logged along with a topic association. The product-event combination is saved to the existing topic as an attachment.
   • New topic—Use this option to create a new topic and associate it with a product-event combination. If topic templates are available, the new topic can be based on the topic template that you selected from the Topic template drop-down list. In addition, you can click Browse to select from a list of existing topic templates. Available topic templates are those that have been made visible to a work team that you are in.

   The comments and detailed comments are logged along with a topic association. The product-event combination is saved to the new topic as an attachment. When you click OK, the Edit Topic page is displayed and you can edit the associated topic. This includes adding attachments to the topic as well as viewing source details of attachments, and adding comments to the attachments. When you are finished, click Save or Close.

9. Click OK.