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Deleting trial components
When you are editing trial components in a component editor window in the Design Workspace, the InForm Architect application enables you to delete a selected component by choosing a command from a right-click pop-up menu or from an application menu.
When you delete a component, you remove it from the trial definition. This has the following implications:
- If you delete a component that is included in another component definition (for example, if you delete a text box control from a radio group), the composition of the parent component changes in every location where it is used. In the example, if you delete the text box control while editing the Vital Signs form, and the radio group is included in both the Vital Signs and the ECG forms, both forms now contain the radio group without the text box. The InForm Architect application warns you of this implication when you attempt to perform the deletion.
- Deleting a component from the trial definition does not remove the component from the collection of objects available for the trial. For example, if you decided to restore the deleted text box control to the radio group, you could drag its definition back onto the radio group from the Trial Objects window.
- When you save a trial by selecting File > Save Trial > Save Study, components you have deleted from the trial definition are not included in the trial MedML that the InForm Architect application generates and are not reloaded into the caches when you reopen the trial. In the example, unless the text box was used elsewhere in the trial than the radio group, it would not be reloaded into the caches after you save the trial.
- When you save a trial by selecting File > Save Trial > Save All, all defined components are included in the MedML that the InForm Architect application generates and are reloaded into the caches when you reopen the trial, whether or not they are included in the trial definition. Either this option or the Save By Component option is recommended while a trial definition is under development.
Note: You cannot delete definitions of element or unit components.
