Defining the Links menu

The Drugs tab includes a Links menu that provides access to specified URLs. By default, the menu includes links to FDA label information and NIH label information for the drug associated with the current chart window. You can change the default links or add other links.

1.         In the Signal/WEB-INF/classes subdirectory of the server location to which the Empirica Signal application was installed, open the webvdme.properties file.

2.         Find lines starting with  URLLINK . Lines for the default links are:

URLLINK.1.LINK_NAME=FDA Label Information

URLLINK.1.LINK_URL=http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/

index.cfm?SearchType=BasicSearch&fuseaction=Search.SearchAction&searchTerm=\$DRUG\$

URLLINK.2.LINK_NAME=NIH Label Information

URLLINK.2.LINK_URL=http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/search.cfm?startswith=\$DRUG\$

3.         Modify or add links.

1. For each link on the Links menu, there must be a pair of lines, one defining the name of the menu option and one specifying the URL.
2. In the URL, use the following string if you need to substitute in the drug name associated with the current chart window: \$DRUG\$
3. The number after URLLINK determines the order of options in the Links menu. For example, to add a link to the two default links, you add two lines starting with URLLINK.3. You can renumber links, but the numbers must be consecutive, starting with 1, and you cannot skip numbers.