About Classification

Classifications are logically related labels defined by your company that help people find the objects you define and outputs they generate:

• Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub displays outputs and submission forms (Execution Setups) by their classifications in the Reports tab.
• The Advanced Search feature allows people to search for object definitions, instances, and outputs by their classifications.

When you create a new object, you must select a subtype for it according to your company's policies. The subtype determines which classification hierarchy levels you can or must use to classify your object.

There may be default or inherited classification values assigned to your object. You can accept these or override them with values you select, according to your company's policies.

Example: Your company has set up a classification hierarchy with three levels, Project, Study, and Site. The Project level values include all the therapeutic areas with current trials. The Study level values include all the current trials, each linked to its therapeutic area. The Site level values include all the sites participating in each trial, each linked to its trial or trials. A given subtype may require classification only at the Study level.

When you classify a Program instance, for example, that will be used in all sites for Trial X, you classify it at the Study level to Trial X. If the whole Application Area where the Program is located is devoted to Trial X, your company may have set up its classification system so that all objects within the Application Area automatically inherit the classification value Trial X from the Application Area. This may be true for Work Areas within the Application Area and the object instances in the Work Areas as well.

Reclassification: You can reclassify an object definition or instance at any time.

To view or modify the classification of the definition, you must view it in its location—Application Area or Domain. You cannot see the definition's classifications from an instance of it in a Work Area.

Object Versions and Classifications: Classifications apply to all versions of an object. When you reclassify an object, either explicitly or through inheritance, the new classifications apply to all versions of the object.