Analyzing Domain Use and Promoting a Custom Domain

Overview

You can analyze how standard domains and custom domains are used in studies and submissions. With this usage information, you can identify custom domains that are used enough to become part of the data standard.

Typically, a custom domain is for use by a single study or submission. The custom domain is available only to the study or submission in which it is defined. When a custom domain becomes a standard domain (that is, when the custom domain is promoted to become part of the data standard), it can be included in any study or submission.

Note: You must have appropriate permissions to view the Clinical Administration tree. For more information, see Adding Users to the Clinical Administrators Group.

Analyze Domain Use and Promote a Custom Domain

To analyze domain use and promote a custom domain, perform the following steps:

In the Clinical Administration tree, expand Data Standards.
Select and right-click a data standard, and then select Analyze Model Usage.

The Analyze Model Usage dialog box appears.

The Studies/Submissions list displays all of the studies and submissions that currently use the selected data standard.
From the Studies/Submissions list, select one or more items.
To limit the domains to display, select a type from the Show domains of type drop-down list.
Click Show Domain Details.

In the Domain Details list, a summary of the domains and domain columns appears. Each domain that is included in the selected study or submission appears as a column in the list.
To see the details of a domain, double-click the folder to expand the rows.

Blue boxes specify the columns that are in each domain.

If the domain columns are identical across multiple studies or submissions, then you see the frequency in parentheses after the domain name. For domain columns that differ across studies or submissions, you see that each domain is listed separately.
To view with which study or submission a domain is associated, perform the following steps:
1. Right-click the column heading, and then select Display Domain Paths.
  
  The Domain Paths dialog box appears.
2. Review the domain paths, and then click Close.
To promote a custom domain, perform the following steps:
1. Right-click the custom domain’s column heading, and then select Promote.
  
  A confirmation message appears.
2. Click Yes.
  
  A new standard domain is created from the custom domain.
To verify that a standard domain was created from the custom domain, perform the following steps:
1. In the Clinical Administration tree, expand the selected data standard.
2. Expand Domain Templates.
  
  The new standard domain appears in this folder.