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:

• Chapterref
• Pageref
• Sectionref
• Itemsetref
• Itemref
• Controlref

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>