Analyzing Domain Use and Promoting a Domain to Be a Template

Overview: Analyzing Domain Use and Promoting a Domain to Be a Template
Analyze Domain Use and Promote a Domain

Overview: Analyzing Domain Use and Promoting a Domain to Be a Template

You can analyze how standard domains and custom domains are used in studies and submissions. With this usage information, you can perform these tasks:
  • identify custom domains that are used enough to become domain templates
    Typically, a custom domain is used within a single study or submission. The custom domain is available only to the study or submission in which it is defined. However, when a custom domain is promoted to be a domain template, the custom domain can be included in any study or submission.
  • replace a current domain template with a revised version
    Replacing a current domain template enables you to incrementally evolve a data standard rather than creating a new one.
Here are the requirements to promote a domain:
  • The domain template name and identifier are required.
  • The domain template name and identifier must be unique within a data standard.
  • The domain template identifier must be a valid SAS data set name.

See Also

Promoting an ADaM Data Set to Be a User-Defined Template

Analyze Domain Use and Promote a Domain

To analyze domain use and promote a domain, perform the following steps:
  1. In the Clinical Administration tree, expand Data Standards.
  2. Right-click a data standard, and then select Analyze Model Usage.
    The Analyze Model Usage dialog box appears.
    Analyze Model Usage dialog box
    The Studies/Submissions list displays all of the studies and submissions that currently use the selected data standard.
  3. From the Studies/Submissions list, select one or more items.
  4. To limit the domains to display, select a type from the Show domains of type drop-down list.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
    Blue boxes specify the columns that are in each domain
  7. To view which study, folder within a study, or submission a domain is associated with, select a domain from the Domain drop-down list.
    The full metadata path appears adjacent to Domain path.
  8. To promote a domain, perform the following steps:
    1. Select a domain from the Domain drop-down list, and then click Promote.
      The Domain Template Name and Identifier dialog box appears.
    2. Enter a name and identifier for the domain template.
    3. Click OK.
  9. Click Close in the Analyze Model Usage dialog box.
  10. To verify that a domain template 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 domain template appears in this folder.
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