The InForm Architect application and MedML

The InForm application uses MedML tags as the means of defining how a trial definition is stored in the trial database. The InForm Architect application provides a simple, graphical way to define trial components. Every time you use the InForm Architect application to define a trial component, the software automatically generates the underlying MedML tags.

As you design and develop a trial, you save the MedML tags that the InForm Architect application generates as XML files. Optionally, you can load these files into the trial database so you can test them in a working InForm application test trial. When you have fully developed and tested a trial, you must load the final generated XML files into your production trial database.

The MedML Installer utility provided with the InForm application enables you to load the trial definition XML files into the database. For more information, see the InForm Utilities Guide.

Although the InForm Architect application can attach to a running trial, it is intended for use in a development and testing environment, not in production. Specifically, when you design a trial with the InForm Architect application and save the component definitions, you cannot use the trial database generated by the InForm application as the production database. You must reinstall the XML files generated by InForm on the production server by running the dbsetup script or the MedML Installer utility, as described in Installation and Configuration Guide.