About topics, actions, and the calendar

By selecting Topic Management from the left navigation pane, you can organize and track tables, graphs, and documents related to particular subject matter.

A topic is a way of organizing information about your work assignments

You can set up topics to follow your workflow through different states, such as Initial, Reviewed, and Closed. You can also make topics visible to work teams and assign them to a user or work team.

Topics organize and track tables, graphs, and documents related to a particular subject matter. You can collect and record issues identified through various means, such as automated signal detection, literature reviews, and regulatory requests.

You access topics through the Topic Management page. You must have the View Topics permission and an administrator must set up Oracle Empirica Topics for your use, including making at least one topic workflow configuration accessible to your login group and, if needed, making you a member of work team and assigning work team permissions. For information on setting up the topics feature see Set up Oracle Empirica Topics.

Topics can be made visible to work teams. Visibility controls who can see the topic and its actions. Work team permissions control what type of access a work team member has to a topic or action. Topics and actions are assigned to a user or a work team. At the top of the Topic Management page are the View items for selectors that control the set of topics you can work with.

Actions are a way of organizing your work assignments

Within a topic, you can create an action. An action is an activity that has been identified as contributing to the understanding or resolution of a topic. On the Topic Management page, you have access to topics and actions that you created and those made visible to a work team of which you are a member.

Use the calendar to see what you need to do

Use the Calendar tab to view your overdue and upcoming actions. The calendar displays open actions with a planned completion date but with no actual completion date. The tab contains a calendar with one, two, or four months, depending on the space available on the screen, and a detailed list of actions. The actions are filtered by the View items for selection (Me or Work Team) and, optionally, by a selected work team or user. There are two views:

• List view: The List view provides the list of the available actions. Actions are ordered by Planned Completion Date in ascending order. If more than one action is available on any date, the actions are sorted in alphabetic order.
• Calendar view: The Calendar view displays the available actions on a monthly calendar.