Viewing detailed comments for a drug

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1.         Select the Signals tab, and click the Drug Comments link.

The Drug Comments page appears.

2.         Select the row menu (), and select View Comments.

The View Comments dialog box appears.

Note: On the Drug Comments page, click Select Rows, then click View Comments to view comments for multiple drugs.

3.         In the View Comments dialog box, do the following:

• From the View comments drop-down list, select All or Most Recent.
• From the Comment type drop-down list, select Private, Public, or All.

Private comments, public comments entered by all users, or both appear. Superusers can see private comments entered by any user.

• Optionally, enter a Start date, an End date, or both to limit the comments to a specific date range.

4.         Click View Comments.

The View Drug Comments page appears.

Note: You can set your user preference to allow the use of an SQL WHERE Clause to restrict drugs that appear on this page. If you select this preference, the Columns and Rows link replaces the Columns link.

If you restrict drugs, you need to refer to the column names in the underlying database table, which may not match the column names that appear on the page. To include a column in the WHERE Clause, click Show Columns in the Columns and Rows pop-up and click the column name.

5.         To show information about the comments that display, click Show Notes. The notes appear below the table and the application includes them if you print or download table data.

6.         To exclude the notes. click Hide Notes.

7.         To save the comments to a topic, click Save to Topic. 

The comments appear as an attachment to the topic.

Field descriptions—View Drug Comments page