Set your user preferences

A user preference is a setting that customizes Oracle Empirica Signal for your username. Your user preference settings have no effect on any other Oracle Empirica Signal users.

Note:

If you have the permission to create user profiles, you can also set user preferences for a user profile.

At the top of the main page, click your user name and select Preferences.
Modify the user preferences described in the table below.
Click Save.

General user preferences

The following user preferences apply to all users and take effect immediately unless otherwise noted.

Category	Preference	Description
Preference for dates and times:	Time Zone	From the Time Zone drop-down list, select the time zone to be used for server datetimes that are displayed in Oracle Empirica Signal for your username. This user preference has no effect on the source safety data (for example, an event date shown in case details) or on the display of As Of dates for timestamped data.
Preferences for logging in:	On login, display this page	From the drop-down list, choose a page to display automatically when you log in to Oracle Empirica Signal. The available options may depend on your user permissions, as well as Oracle Empirica Signal site options set for your organization.
Preferences for logging in:	Show table scrollbars on left	Select this check box to display vertical scrollbars on the left side (instead of the right side) of tables of information. This option is not available on the Signal Review pages but is available for pop-up windows opened from Signal Review. Note: This option may not take effect until the next time you log in.
Preference for Query Wizard:	Show case count by default on preview page	Show the count of cases on the Preview Query page. On the Queries page, select Display Case Count in Query Preview. Computation of the case count can be time-consuming. Display it only when necessary. Note: This preference appears only if appropriate Allow Case Count on Query Preview Page checkbox of site option has been enabled.
Preferences for downloading data:	Default download file type	From the drop-down list, select the file type you use most frequently to download data.
Preference for viewing graphs:	Graph color palette	From the drop-down list, set a default color scheme for the graph key for graphs based on the results of data mining runs (this preference has no effect on graphs based on report data).
Preferences for viewing case details:	Days to retain visited status for case ID link	Specify the number of days that an underlined case ID that you can click to view case details appears in a different color. This preference applies to case IDs for only your username and to all data associated with configurations within the same database group. The default number of days, which is used if you leave the number of days empty, is 45. If you specify 0 as the number of days, the color of a visited link does not change. This preference affects only data associated with data configurations that are in database groups. See Case ID Links.
Preferences for viewing case details:	Wrap Wide Tables	Check to wrap table displays on the Case Details page. Wrapping tables makes the vertical display longer. Not wrapping tables makes the horizontal display wider and can necessitate scrolling to the right to see all columns in the tables.
Preferences for viewing case details:	Show Table of Contents	Check to show a table of contents on the Case Details page. The table of contents consists of links that jump to the data displayed on the page.

Preferences for selecting and viewing run results

Note:

These preferences are available only to users with the View Data Mining Results permission.

When you set the following user preferences, they take effect immediately.

Preference	Description
Default Run	From the drop-down list, select a data mining run to appear by default in the Run Name field on the Select Criteria page when you go to the Data Mining Results page for the first time in an Oracle Empirica Signal session. You can select any run listed on your Data Mining Runs page. You can also specify <Last Used> or <No Run>.
Display Only Results with score-type Scores Over number	Specify a default minimum score for viewing results of a data mining run for the first time. The score type and value that you specify appear on the Select Criteria page as a default, but you can change them as needed before reviewing results. You can set a default minimum for: EBGM —Applies to MGPS runs only. EB05 —Applies to MGPS runs only. N —Applies to run results for any type of data mining run (however, does not apply to the tables of results for covariates or interactions if they are produced for a logistic regression run). This preference affects only run results that you have never viewed. Once you have viewed a run, the setting that you choose on the Select Criteria page is used for that run until you change it. If you select a statistic other than N, a default of LROR>0 is used for logistic regression run results.
Enable Adverse Event Hierarchy Browser	Check to browse and select terms from the hierarchy for tasks that require you to select event values. For an event variable that is set up in the data configuration to have an associated hierarchy, the Select <hierarchy> Terms link appears for these tasks; for example, Select MedDRA Terms.
Enable Drug Hierarchy Browser	Check to browse and select terms from the hierarchy for tasks that require you to select drug values. For a drug variable that is set up in the data configuration to have an associated hierarchy, the Select <hierarchy> Terms link appears for these tasks; for example, Select ATC Terms.
Include SQL WHERE Clause for Advanced Results Selection	Check to enable use of a SQL WHERE clause for selecting results criteria. To view all advanced options, click Show Advanced on the Select Criteria page.

Preference for creating runs

Note:

These preferences are available only to users with the Create Data Mining Run permission.

When you set the following user preferences, they take effect immediately.

Preference	Description
Minimum Count	Specify a default for the Minimum Count field on the Data Mining Parameters page. You can override this default as needed.
Replace Missing Values with	Specify text to represent missing values for variables in the results of data mining runs that you execute. For example, if you set this preference to ^missing^ the results table shows ^missing^ for any item that has no value in the database. You cannot use spaces or the following characters in your replacement string: * \ ” : / ? > < This preference affects only the appearance of run results, and not the source data. When you access source data, as when drilling down from a case series, missing values display as blank. The Job Details page for a run's extraction job (accessible from the Jobs for Run page) shows the value that was in effect for missing data for the run. Note: Other users who view results of a run that you executed will also see the missing value that was set as your user preference at the time you executed the run.
Exclude associations if items are of the same type (all drugs, all events)	Check to include a default for a field on the Data Mining Parameters page when you create a new MGPS data mining run. You can override this default as needed. The recommended setting is checked. Checking this preference improves time and space utilization because fewer results are loaded into the results table.

Preference

Description

Minimum Count

Specify a default for the Minimum Count field on the Data Mining Parameters page. You can override this default as needed.

Replace Missing Values with

Specify text to represent missing values for variables in the results of data mining runs that you execute. For example, if you set this preference to ^missing^ the results table shows ^missing^ for any item that has no value in the database. You cannot use spaces or the following characters in your replacement string: * \ ” : / ? > <

This preference affects only the appearance of run results, and not the source data. When you access source data, as when drilling down from a case series, missing values display as blank.

The Job Details page for a run's extraction job (accessible from the Jobs for Run page) shows the value that was in effect for missing data for the run.

Note:

Other users who view results of a run that you executed will also see the missing value that was set as your user preference at the time you executed the run.

Exclude associations if items are of the same type (all drugs, all events)

Check to include a default for a field on the Data Mining Parameters page when you create a new MGPS data mining run. You can override this default as needed. The recommended setting is checked. Checking this preference improves time and space utilization because fewer results are loaded into the results table.

Preferences for viewing drug profiles

Note:

These preferences are available only to users with the View Drug Profiles permission.

When you set the following user preferences, they take effect immediately.

Preference	Description
Drug Profile Configuration	From the drop-down list, select the drug profile configuration. The drug profile configuration determines the source of graphs and reports that you can add as charts to a drug profile layout. You must set this preference to access the Drugs Profiles page. Available drug profile configurations are those that you created or that are published to you. (If you have the Administer Users permission, they also include unpublished configurations created by users in your login group.)
Drug Profile Layout	From the drop-down list, select the drug profile layout, the name of a saved collection of charts, as well as their placement and display options. Layouts are not associated with a particular drug profile configuration. Available layouts are those that you created or that are published to you. (If you have the Administer Users permission, they also include unpublished layouts created by users in your login group.) Use this setting in the following situations: You have not previously used a drug profile layout on the Drug Profile page. You delete the layout you were last using and then return to the Drug Profile page without having selected a layout. You click a drug name on the Signal Review Products page.

Preference

Description

Drug Profile Configuration

From the drop-down list, select the drug profile configuration. The drug profile configuration determines the source of graphs and reports that you can add as charts to a drug profile layout. You must set this preference to access the Drugs Profiles page. Available drug profile configurations are those that you created or that are published to you. (If you have the Administer Users permission, they also include unpublished configurations created by users in your login group.)

Drug Profile Layout

From the drop-down list, select the drug profile layout, the name of a saved collection of charts, as well as their placement and display options. Layouts are not associated with a particular drug profile configuration. Available layouts are those that you created or that are published to you. (If you have the Administer Users permission, they also include unpublished layouts created by users in your login group.)

Use this setting in the following situations:

You have not previously used a drug profile layout on the Drug Profile page.
You delete the layout you were last using and then return to the Drug Profile page without having selected a layout.
You click a drug name on the Signal Review Products page.

Preferences for viewing signals

If your organization uses the signal review component of Oracle Empirica Signal, there are additional user preferences. If you set the following user preferences, they take effect the next time you log in.

Note:

These preferences are available only to users with the View Signal Management permission.

Preference	Description
Signal Management Configuration	From the drop-down list, select a signal configuration. Available signal configurations are those that you created or that are published to you. If you set the preference to --, the signal configuration associated with your login group is used. You can also update this preference directly on the Signal Review page by selecting another Signal Management configuration from the dropdown box at the top of the page.
Allow SQL WHERE Clause on the Signal Review Page	Check to enable the user of a SQL WHERE clause to restrict rows that appear on the Products page, Automatic Assignments page, Product-Event Combinations page, and Event Comments page.

Preference

Description

Signal Management Configuration

From the drop-down list, select a signal configuration. Available signal configurations are those that you created or that are published to you.

If you set the preference to --, the signal configuration associated with your login group is used.

You can also update this preference directly on the Signal Review page by selecting another Signal Management configuration from the dropdown box at the top of the page.

Allow SQL WHERE Clause on the Signal Review Page

Check to enable the user of a SQL WHERE clause to restrict rows that appear on the Products page, Automatic Assignments page, Product-Event Combinations page, and Event Comments page.

Preferences for working with topics

Note:

This preference is available only to users with access to at least one topic workflow configuration. To change the configuration on the Topic Management page, the user must have View Topics permission and more than one topic workflow configuration published to the user's login group.

If you set the following user preference, it takes effect immediately.

Preference	Description
Topic Workflow Configuration	From the drop-down list, select a topic workflow configuration. Available topic workflow configurations are those that you created or that are published to you. This setting overrides the association between your login group and a topic workflow configuration. For example, if your login group is associated with configuration A, but you specify configuration B as the preference, configuration B is in effect the next time you log in. The override is intended to facilitate testing of configurations that you create or edit. Note: You can change your topic workflow configuration selection on the Topic Management and the User Preferences pages. A change from one of these pages updates the selection on the other page. If you set the preference to –, the topic workflow configuration associated with your login group is used. Note: If you select a topic workflow configuration that requires each topic to be visible to one and only one work team, you must also define membership in a work team and assign appropriate work team permissions.

Preference

Description

Topic Workflow Configuration

From the drop-down list, select a topic workflow configuration. Available topic workflow configurations are those that you created or that are published to you.

This setting overrides the association between your login group and a topic workflow configuration. For example, if your login group is associated with configuration A, but you specify configuration B as the preference, configuration B is in effect the next time you log in. The override is intended to facilitate testing of configurations that you create or edit.

Note:

You can change your topic workflow configuration selection on the Topic Management and the User Preferences pages. A change from one of these pages updates the selection on the other page.

If you set the preference to –, the topic workflow configuration associated with your login group is used.

Note:

If you select a topic workflow configuration that requires each topic to be visible to one and only one work team, you must also define membership in a work team and assign appropriate work team permissions.