Path
Purpose
- Used alone, with no child components, a Path element signals the presence of mapping targets that have no corresponding control in the InForm study. For example:
- Columns to be created in a CDD that have no associated control on a CRF.
- Items common to all panels in a Clintrial protocol.
- Used in conjunction with one or more child components, each of which provides the RefName of a portion of a RefName path, a Path element specifies a control in an InForm study. This control identifies the source data for one data mapping.
The Path element is a required component of a mapping definition created by the ExternalMap element and must be the first child component element in the ExternalMap definition.
Syntax
<PATH>
<CHAPTERREF attributes/>
<PAGEREF attributes/>
<SECTIONREF attributes/>
<ITEMSETREF attributes/>
<ITEMREF attributes/>
<CONTROLREF* attributes/>
</PATH>
Children
Each optional child component of the Path element specifies the RefName of one portion of the RefName path of a source control in an InForm study:
Example
This example illustrates the use of the Path element without child components in a mapping definition for items common to all Clintrial panels in the mapping.
<EXTERNALMAP>
<PATH/>
<CONTEXTPANEL REFNAME="MEDIKA_MAP">
<CTITEM REFNAME="PATNUM" ITEMDATATYPE="TEXT" ISREPEAT="false"
ISREQUIRED="true" DBFORMAT="VARCHAR2(20)" CONTEXTTYPE="1" />
<CTITEM REFNAME="VISITID" ITEMDATATYPE="TEXT" ISREPEAT="false"
ISREQUIRED="true" DBFORMAT="VARCHAR2(20)" CONTEXTTYPE="2" />
<CTITEM REFNAME="FORMID" ITEMDATATYPE="TEXT" ISREPEAT="false"
ISREQUIRED="true" DBFORMAT="VARCHAR2(20)" CONTEXTTYPE="3" />
<CTITEM REFNAME="VISITINDEX" ITEMDATATYPE="FLOAT" ISREPEAT="true"
ISREQUIRED="true" DBFORMAT="NUMBER(5,2)" CONTEXTTYPE="2" />
</CONTEXTPANEL>
</EXTERNALMAP>