Study Role Permissions Guide
This guide provides definitions of each of the study level permissions which can be granted or denied for the user roles. Use the linked Table of contents below to jump to a definition.
- 1 TrialKit AI
- 2 Action Item Report
- 3 Adjudication
- 4 Background Exports
- 5 Build Web pages
- 6 Dashboard Report
- 7 Data Extraction
- 8 Data Management Report
- 9 Deleted Records
- 10 File Repository
- 11 Double Data Entry
- 12 Form Builder
- 13 Import Manager
- 14 Informed Consent
- 15 InventoryAdministration
- 16 InventoryManagement
- 17 Medical Coding
- 18 Mobile Uploads
- 19 Monitor Report
- 20 My Queries Report
- 21 Notification Management
- 22 Pages Granted to All Users
- 23 Payment Configuration
- 24 Payment Manager
- 25 Query Management
- 26 Query Summary Report
- 27 Randomization Configuration
- 28 Randomization View
- 29 Report Builder
- 30 Report Jobs
- 31 Risk Based Monitoring
- 32 Role Security
- 33 Site by user report
- 34 Site Document Manager
- 35 Study Configuration
- 36 Study Documents
- 37 Study Event Report
- 38 Study Progress Report
- 39 Subject Audit Report
- 40 Subject Record Management
- 41 Subject Record page Design
- 42 Text Management
- 43 Theme Manager
- 44 User Plot
- 45 Version Control
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TrialKit AI | Grant Access | Allows access to TrialKit AI link for automatically importing PDF data into a study | Accessible through the Subject Manager, Link on right side of page |
Action Item Report | Grant Access | This right will grant access to the Action Item Report in the Reports menu. If the user has a role responsible for a review level in the study workflow, they will see a list of records ready to be reviewed. | Reports > Action Item Report |
Coordinator Action Items | For any role with this right, there is a section titled Research Data Coordinator in the Action Item Report. This is a list of missing records at a site, and records that have been flagged (data changed without a reason provided). | Reports > Action Item Report | |
DDE Clerk Action Items | Only needs to be granted to roles which serve as Double Data Entry users on a study which is set up as a DDE study. |
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Review Action Items | This displays the action items for every review level. Review levels are set up in the Workflow tab on the Study Configuration page. By default, each role will see their own action items that need review. However, if a particular role needs to be able to see the CRFs awaiting review at all review levels, this right must be selected. |
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| Exclude Missing Records | Gives access to the function of excluding missing forms within the missing forms section of the action item report. | Action Item Report > Missing Scheduled Forms |
| Global Provide Reasons | Allows the user to provide a single reason for change to all records currently flagged for data changes and awaiting reasons. Note, this will apply a reason to ALL records flagged in the study so should be used with caution. | Action Items Report > Data Changes Awaiting Reason |
Adjudication | Grant Access | Allows access to form adjudication. Any role defined in the form builder as an adjudication level should have this permission. This function is only available on the TrialKit app. |
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Adjudication Report | Allows access to the adjudication report. | TrialKit app, Reports menu | |
Moderator Report | Allows access to adjudication moderator report. | TrialKit app, Reports menu | |
Configure Adjudication | Allows a Study Manager to assign users to events which need to be adjudicated. | TrialKit app, Study menu | |
Background Exports | Grant access to background export jobs | Adds option t |
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Build Web pages | Grant Access | This provides access to the Build Web Page application used to customize the page content. Note: To use the Build Web Page app, a custom theme must also be set up through the Theme Manager. | Website Host > Build Web Page |
Dashboard Report | Grant Access | This provides access to the Dashboard Report application, which displays items such as the number of queries, CFRs, adverse events, records awaiting review, etc. This report only displays data on the sites which the user belongs to. Common study setup will allow all roles to have this right granted. | Reports > Dashboard Report |
View Study Status | This right allows the user to view the study status section on the right side of the Study Configuration page. The user must also have the right to access Study Configuration. Viewing the study status is not necessary for most users. This is typically only a right given to an Administrator or similar role. | Study > Study Configuration | |
Change Study Status | This right allows the user to change the study status in the study status section on the right side of the Study Configuration page. The user must also have the right to access Study Configuration, typically only given to an Administrator or similar role. | Study > Study Configuration | |
Data Extraction | Grant Access to Data Exports | This right will give access to the Data Extraction menu and the ability to export data by form. Only Administrative roles can configure the By Form exports for others to access based on which roles each one is setup for. | Data Extraction |
Account Manager | Grant Access to All Data Extraction | This provides access to the Extract All Study Data option. | Data Extraction > Extract All study Data |
| Access batch PDF exports | Gives access to export entire subject casebooks for a given site. Users will only be able to export for sites they belong to. Field blinding is supported in PDF exports, but form Viewing permissions are not. | Data Extraction > Batch PDF Exports |
Data Management Report | Grant Access | Allows access to the data management report | Reports > Data Management Report |
Deleted Records | Grant Access | Provides access to Deleted Records which displays all records that have been deleted in the study. This application will show deleted records across all sites in the study. | Subject > View Deleted Records |
Undelete Records | Provides ability to UN-DELETE Records that have been deleted in the study. This application will allow un-deleted one records at a time. |
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File Repository | Grant Access | Provides access to the central File Repository which serves as a collection point for files/documents uploaded on CRFs or Site and Study documents. This application will list all documents uploaded throughout the study, regardless of the site. | Study > File Repository Manager |
Delete Files | Allows the user to delete documents/files from the File Repository. |
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Double Data Entry | Grant Access | This provides access to the DDE Report used by a Double Data Entry Manager or similar role in studies designed to use multi-pass data entry. Studies not using DDE functionality do not need this right turned on. | Reports > DDE Report |
Form Builder | Grant Access | This provides access to the Form Builder used to build the forms which will be used in the study. | Study > Form Builder |
Add New Form | Allows the user access to create new forms on the Form Builder application. The right to save changes to forms (listed below as a separate right) is typically always granted along with this right. Otherwise, the user will be unable to save after creating a form. | Study > Form Builder > 'Create New Form' link | |
Select Existing Form | Allows the user to select an existing form and view its attributes. The right to Save Changes to Form (listed below as a separate right) is typically granted with this right. Otherwise, the user can only view the form but not make changes. | Study > Form Builder > 'Select' link in each row of the Existing Forms table | |
Export To Form Library | Allows the user to export a form into a form library. Form libraries are created under the Website Host menu, and make it possible to share forms between studies. | Study > Form Builder > 'Export' link in each row of the Existing Forms table | |
Import From Form Library | Allows the user to access the form library and import a form into the existing forms table to be used in the study. Form libraries are created under the Website Host menu, and make it possible to share forms between studies. | Study > Form Builder > 'Import Form' link below the Existing Forms table | |
Delete Form | Allows the user to delete individual forms from the Existing Forms table. | Study > Form Builder > 'Delete' link in each row of the Existing Forms table | |
Save Changes to Form | Allows the user to see the 'Save' button at the top right of the form builder workspace. This is necessary for a user to create new forms or edit existing forms. | Study > Form Builder > 'Save' button on top of the form builder workspace | |
| User Version Override on published forms | Allows the user to make changes to forms which exist on a published version. These changes are tracked in the Version Override Audit report | Study > Form Builder > Version override button |
Import Manager | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the applications used to import external study data into TrialKit. | Study > Import Configuration / Run Import |
Informed Consent | Grant Access | Provides access to the Informed Consent configuration | Study Configuration > Informed Consent |
Configure Informed Consent | Allows the user to setup the informed consent configuration | Study Configuration > Informed Consent | |
Revoke Consent | Provides the user access to revoke consent at the form level when a consent form is open. Note, revoking consent can separately be accomplished from the consent report regardless of this permission. |
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Run Consent Report | Provides the user access to the consent report for tracking subject consent status/history across all sites | Reports > Consent Report | |
| Populate all patients with paper consent | Allows user access to the function, within the informed consent configuration, to move all existing subjects to use an alternative method of consent so the system does not enforce electronic consent on those patients. | Informed Consent > Add informed consent |
| Prevent Resaving of Completed Consent | Prevents resaving a current completed consent form by the patient user. Only applicable when applied to the subject/patient role. |
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Inventory | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the page 'Import Inventory' where inventories can be uploaded and deleted. | Study > Import Inventory |
| Reset Inventories | Allows the user to reset all items in inventory back to the beginning. | Study > Inventory Configuration |
Inventory | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the page 'Inventory Management' where inventory items can be managed. See the following permissions for more specific role security. | Subject > Inventory Management |
Rollback/Undo Item transaction | Allows a user to undo the last event that occurred on an item. Normally utilized manually only by an Administrator user, and only available from the TrialKit mobile app. | TrialKit app > Inventory Manager > tap on an item to view its history and undo the last transaction that occurred. | |
| Allocate Inventory to Sites | Allows a user to manually release inventory items to sites | Inventory Manager |
| Receive Inventory at Sites | Allows a user to accept inventory items at the site in order to make the items available for allocation to subjects at that site. | Inventory Manager |
| Assign Inventory to Subjects | Allows a user to assign inventory items to subjects within the CRF where inventory item is selected. | Subject Records |
| View Non-allocated Items | Allows a user to view all items in the inventory for any site(s) they belong to, plus all un-allocated items not yet assigned to a site or subject. | Inventory Manager |
Always Blind Types | Blinds all details of the inventory items except for the item identifier. These details are defined by the Administrator when setting up an Inventory. For inventories which are tied to a blinded randomization, this will prevent un-blinding. | Inventory Manager | |
Medical Coding | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the Medical Coding page. | Subject > Medical Coding |
| Add New Configuration | Allows User to create new coding configurations for other data sources | Subject > Medical Coding > "Add New Configuration" form |
| Edit Existing Configuration | Allows user to edit coding configurations | Subject > Medical Coding > "Edit" column |
| Delete Existing Configuration | Allows users to delete coding configurations/projects | Subject > Medical Coding > Delete icon |
| Access Coding Tool | Allows users to open coding projects from the Projects page in csCoder and perform coding | Subject > Medical Coding > "Code This" column |
Mobile Uploads | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the Mobile Uploads page. This is only necessary for users who want to use the app to setup randomization or medical coding, but need a way to upload files to continue setting up on the app. | Website Host >Mobile Uploads |
Upload Randomization File | Allows the user to see an upload field for randomization on the mobile uploads page | Website Host >Mobile Uploads | |
Upload Medical Coding File | Allows the user to see an upload field for medical coding on the mobile uploads page | Website Host >Mobile Uploads | |
Monitor Report | Grant Access | Provides access to the Monitor Report and the Field Locking Report, which are used to display fields that have been reviewed/locked, fields that have been unlocked, or records in the midst of being monitored using the soft review function. | Reports > Monitor Report, FLSV Report |
My Queries Report | Grant Access | Allows the user to access My Queries Report, which displays the queries applicable to their role. | Reports > My Queries Report |
Notification Management | Grant Access | Allows access to the Participant Notifications screen - Site membership enforced | Subject > Participant Notifications |
Pages Granted to All Users | Grant Access | This gives users access to the pages that are common and non-impactful to study access or data. These include the following screens:
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Payment Configuration | Grant Access | Allows the user to access payment configurations for setting up the payment tracking system | Study > Configure Payments |
Payment Manager | Grant Access | Allows the user to access payment configurations for setting up the payment tracking system | Study > Payment Manager |
Query Management | Grant Access | No longer functional. The query management system has been enhanced so queries are deployed to the defined list of roles. Those roles will receive the queries in their My Queries Report and on the corresponding CRF without this right having been granted. |
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Create Query | Allows the user to create queries on each field of a CRF or the entire record. Query icons will appear next to each field in a CRF for users with this right. |
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Close Query | Allows the user to close queries so they are no longer open/active. | Query Dialog window and Queries report | |
Delete Query | Allows users to delete queries from within the query window, accessible from either My Queries Report or the CRF the query is part of. A query can be deleted by users with this right, whether the query is open or closed. | Query Dialog window within subject forms | |
Show All Queries | This right will a 'Show All Queries' checkbox above the Queries table in My Queries Report. This allows the user to see ALL queries in the study, rather than only the queries deployed to their role. | Reports > My Queries Report | |
| Unlock Field (FLSV ) | This right allows the user to unlock fields that may have previously locked by a Monitor (or other designated review level). | Subject Forms |
| Bulk Close Queries | Adds batch close option within the Queries Report. This should only be granted along with the Close Query permission. | Queries Report |
| Prevent Editing Role Distribution | Prevents the user role from changing the role distribution when a manual query is created. | Query Dialog window |
Query Summary Report | Grant Access | Allows access to the Query Summary Report which provides an overview of query counts per site. | Reports > Query Summary Report |
Randomization Configuration | Grant Access | Allows access to the Randomization pages used for setting up the randomization schedule/allocations. There are two pages that correspond to this right (see menu location) | Study > Define randomization Study > Import randomization file |
Randomization View | Grant Access | Allows access to view the randomization schedule and allocations made within the study. | Subject > View randomization allocations |
Unallocate Subject | Ability to see a link for unallocating subjects in the randomization table. | Subject > View randomization allocations | |
Report Builder | Grant Access | Allows access to the Report Builder application used to create/view custom reports on the study data. When reports are set up, the roles they are visible to are selected by the user who created the report. Therefore, users can have access to the Report Builder, but will only be able to view reports that were made available to them. | Reports > Report Builder |
Create or Setup Report | Allows users to create reports in the Report Builder. | Reports > Report Builder | |
Delete Report | Allows users to Delete existing reports in the Ad-Hoc Reports table. | Reports > Report Builder > 'Delete' link in each row of the Reports table | |
Report Jobs | Grant Access | Provides access to the Job Status Report used for background processing of specific reports throughout the system that may take some time to run while the user continues working in the system. | Reports > Job progress report |
Risk Based Monitoring | Grant Access | Allows access to RBM setup. Note, this is not needed by Monitors |
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Configure RBM | Allows ability to define rules for what gets Monitored. | This function is only available on the TrialKit app. If your role has it, you will see an RBM icon at the top of all subject CRFs. | |
Role Security | Grant Access | This right has been disabled. To provide users the right to access Role Security, check the Study Configuration settings listed below. Once a user is provided rights to access Role Security, the other rights in this section will be able to allow access to specified rights within Role Security. |
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Add New Role | Allows users to add new roles to the Add/Edit Roles section of Role Security. | Study > Study Configuration > 'Role Security' tab > Add or Edit Roles section | |
Edit Existing Role | Allows users to Edit existing study roles in the Add/Edit Roles section of Role Security. | Study > Study Configuration > 'Role Security' tab > Add or Edit Roles section | |
Delete Existing Role | Allows users to delete existing study roles in the Add/Edit Roles section of Role Security. | Study > Study Configuration > 'Role Security' tab > Add or Edit Roles section | |
Grant Rights to any Role that have not been granted |
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Grant Form Rights | Allows users to set the role rights on each form in the study. | Study > Study Configuration > 'Role Security' tab > 'Form Rights' link at the top of the rights section | |
Blind Fields | Allows users to blind roles to specific fields on each form. | Study > Study Configuration > 'Role Security' tab > 'Blind Form Fields by Role' link above the rights section | |
Scheduling | Grant access to participant scheduling | Gives the user access to the study calendar for the user’s current site (site membership enforced). | Subject Manager - Scheduler |
| View Entire Study Schedule (All sites) | Allows the user to see all sites/subjects in a single view when looking at the calendar. Without this, events from the current site only are shown. |
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| Create New Events | Ability to create new calendar events |
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| Modify Existing Events | Ability to update existing events with changes |
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| Delete Existing Events | Ability to delete existing events |
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| Send Meeting Invitation to Participant | Ability to send meeting invite to a patient user if their email is registered |
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| Access Calendar Report | Access to the calendar report or exported file |
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| Import ICS Calendar Events | Ability to import an ICS format calendar file from an external calendar |
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Site by user report |
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Site Document Manager | Grant Access | Gives users access to the Site Document Manager application where they can then access any site-type forms created in the Form Builder. They will only see the site forms for sites which they belong to. | Study > Site Document Manager |
Setup Site Documents | Allows users to make changes to the site document study requirements. | Study > Site Document Manager > 'Subject Enrollment Rules' and 'Approved to Enroll' settings | |
Lab Normal Ranges | Allows users to associate lab sites with study sites, which can then be selected by data entry personnel on a lab form for range validation purposes. |
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| Delete Site Documents | Allows users to delete records within the Site Document Manager | Site Document Manager |
Study Configuration | Grant Access | Allows the user to access the Study Configuration page and the Device Manager list. The other Study Configuration rights below will allow more granular control over specific controls within study configuration. | Study > Study Configuration |
| Access To Events Without a Site
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