Revising trial documentation
You may periodically need to revise the documents associated with a trial, including Help documents and sponsor-provided documents.
To implement a new document version:
- Update the files that make up the document.
- If any link counts change, or if you add or remove a file from the document, update the XML file in which you specify the document definition.
- Load the new or updated document files into the database using the MedML Installer to process the document definition XML file.
- If you have made any changes to CRF Help, use the MedML Installer to reload into the database the definition of each Form to which the changed help text applies.
- Create a new StudyVersion to include the updated document by changing the VERSIONDESCRIPTION attribute of the StudyVersion definition.
- Associate the new StudyVersion with each site at which it will be applied by changing the VERSIONDESCRIPTION attribute of the StudyVersionSite tag to match the StudyVersion definition.
- Associate the updated document definition with the new StudyVersion definition by changing the VERSIONDESCRIPTION attribute of the StudyVersionDoc tag to match the StudyVersion definition.
- Use the MedML Installer to load the updated definitions into the database in the following order: StudyVersion, StudyVersionDoc, StudyVersionSite.
For more information, see Trial documentation and study versions.