1 Administration basics

This chapter provides information on how to work as an assigned ClearTrial system administrator in ClearTrial.

Topics:

• Introduction
  This document is a reference for those users who are assigned the ClearTrial System Administrator role, who are responsible for managing and maintaining user accounts for all users at their organization.
• Permissions of assigned ClearTrial system administrators
  Assigned system administrators manage user accounts for their organization. In addition, they perform other administrative tasks, such as granting additional roles/capabilities per user, updating customer preferences for all users from the default values (if applicable), and resetting user accounts.
• Edit customer preferences
  Assigned ClearTrial system administrators manage the customer preferences impacting all users at your organization.
• Purge deleted items
  A deletion in ClearTrial is a soft deletion, meaning ClearTrial updates the status of the item, displays it with strikethrough, grays out the item in the interface, and automatically purges it according to the customer preference you have specified for how many days deleted items remain before being purged.