Refreshing Data Standard Metadata

Overview: Refreshing Data Standard Metadata

You can refresh the metadata in a data standard. Refreshing the metadata accomplishes the following:

rereads the data standard metadata of the data standard that is currently registered in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit
enables you to update a subset of the data standard in SAS Clinical Data Integration without the need to reimport the full data standard from the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit
minimizes the impact of revisions on users

Here is the metadata that can be refreshed in a data standard:

domain templates

Refresh one or more domain templates of a SAS Clinical Data Integration data standard with domain template definitions from the same data standard that is currently registered in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit.
column groups

Refresh the column groups in SAS Clinical Data Integration from the data standard that is currently registered in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit.
validation checks

Refresh the validation checks to restore them to the version of the data standard that is currently registered in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit.

To refresh data standard metadata, perform the following steps:

In the Clinical Administration tree, expand Data Standards.
Select the data standard, right-click, and then select Refresh Metadata for Standard.

The Refresh Metadata for Standard wizard appears.
(Optional) Select one or more domain templates, and then click Next.

The Column Groups page appears.
(Optional) Select one or more column groups, and then click Next.

The Refresh Validation Data page appears.
(Optional) Select the Refresh Validation Data check box, and then click Next.
Click Finish.

The selected metadata is refreshed.