How to Create Edit Checks in Medidata Rave Painlessly
By Weihong Yang
What we are going to talk about
• What is Edit Check• Why creating Edit Check makes pain• How to create Edit Check painlessly• More Possibilities
What is Edit Check
Meet Condition(s)
Perform Action(s)
A Logic Statement
IF…
THEN…
EditCheck
What is Edit Check
Check Name
Bypass During
Migration
Active
Check Steps
Check Actions
The components need to be defined for an Edit Check
Why creating Edit Check makes pain
Copy from Global Library
Copy from Another Study
Upload with Architect Loader
Specification
These approaches are not to Create but to Copy
Why creating Edit Check makes pain
Click Manually & Wait for Page Refresh
Only one choice to create new Edit Check
Why creating Edit Check makes pain
• Add Check
• Add Check Step
• Add Check Action
× 3 × 2
× 4 × 3
× 3 × 2
For One Simple Edit Check:
Why creating Edit Check makes pain
× 1 = × 10 × 7+
× 300 = × 3000 × 2100+
This is why it makes Pain
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Too Many Clicks
Too Many Waits
Less Clicks
Less Waits
How?
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
A Solution based on Microsoft Excel
Download ALS Upload Strings
Generate Quick Edit Strings
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
User Defined Function generates Quick Edit string
Edit Check
Check Step Check Action
1
F(x)
F(x)F(x)
Data Value ConstantF(x)F(x)
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Insert User Defined Function to define the Logic and Action
Benefit:Utilize the feature of Excel Formula to separate logic from data so that the logic can be copied to multiple checks
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Get Parameters from Value or Reference
Benefit:Specification file, Excel basic formulas and other worksheet function will be powerful tools in building checks.
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Build a more efficient interface with User Form2
Data Value
Folder, Form, Field
Repeat Numbers,Value Type
ALS
User Form
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
One click to set all needed attributes for all selected Data Values
One click to copy all selected Data Values
Benefit:Obviously, it is more efficient than adding Data Value one by one.
CRF Draft
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Operate HTML to upload checks by programming3
Quick Edit Strings
Automatic Upload
How to create Edit Checks painlessly
Upload selected Quick Edit strings to the target Draft of the target Projectwithout access to Architect Loader
Benefit:When the upload program is running, user do not have to keep attention on the whole process.
More Possibilities
• Build eCRF• Set Matrix• Generate Test Cases• UAT
Starting from this tool
There are more possibilities can be developed
To improve efficiency and user experience
Thank You
