Getting Started Guide

this guide is aimed at repository users who are just getting started with {{productname}} and provides a basic level of information to help you get started quickly to access the repository, an administrator must give you repository permissions as well as add you to a subscription for more information, see the administrator docid\ xfgpwb1c652lbukrc2133 guide introduction to the repository the formedix ryze repository provides a centralized way of creating, managing and browsing clinical metadata assets it can be used to define organizational standards to improve data quality and reduce study design and execution time it can also be used to design studies, from crf to submission, with integration to your edc system metadata is grouped into assets , for example, a form asset or a dataset asset your assets can be made available to everyone, or selected teams users can view your assets to help approve them or to determine which are required for their upcoming study design you can run visualizations on assets, for example to view how crfs look in an edc system you must have a subscription to access the repository the repository is used to manage your standards, studies, assets, and change requests asset groups in ryze, things like visits, forms, questions and so on are stored as assets and these assets are organized into asset groups (ags) when managing your asset groups, there may be a few things to consider when it comes to how you organize content, how you reuse content, and how you manage working with third party systems the type of assets available depend on the type of asset group you have for example, there are differences between the assets found in data acquisition and sdtm asset groups adding assets when adding content there are a few options to consider, you can choose to do any of the following copy content from a standard create content from scratch (visits, forms, terminologies etc ) upload content for example, for data acquisition ags, you might want to upload content from your edc you can use the docid\ lfp4len0wnxbzeounzp w tab to convert files and the upload button to upload the converted content to your ag importng content you can import content directly from files or from a third party integration, such as veeva vault or rave edc copy content from a standard you can start building asset groups by copying content from a published standard (for example, from a published library or a proprietary standard) by using standardized content, you have the added benefit of traceability to the source as well as automatically including things like annotations or aliases that are present in the standard copying content from a published standard means that compliance indicators are displayed alongside your content you might find it easier to manage all your asset groups in a standard and pull the content into subsequent studies create content from scratch you can also create new assets in ryze this is more time consuming and should only be used if you don’t require the compliance and traceability that comes with importing content from another library convert and upload content on demand services lets you convert and upload third party content to ryze working with other systems will impact how you organize content, for example, different edc systems might have different formats for content ryze supports converting data from multiple edcs from the docid\ lfp4len0wnxbzeounzp w tab for more information on asset groups, see docid\ yrmzb4jkk4ungsvytxeac standards/studies when working with metadata in your repository, you can do the following import content from third party systems copy standardised content from published standards design your own proprietary standards content that is used in a study can be saved as a standard and used in future studies it is recommended that you review the docid\ aswrw5 x9j2hvrmywjgza guide before designing your standards if you want to copy standardised content and create sdtm datasets, see docid 4auegixq9x1bifptwo0eh if you want to start designing your own standards and copy standardised content later, see docid\ t1w53uucbfozehj4xhs26 working with third party systems plugins docid\ axp ejp0n8yigbbjvgnpp allow you to integrate ryze with other systems, such as edcs plugins provide the ability to run visualizations, edit third party properties, export your content in different formats, and enable validators that check that your content conforms to the rules of a third party system plugins can be added to asset groups in your repository when editing asset group properties admin users must enable plugins for use in the repository repository users can then add plugins to asset groups services on demand services can be used to compare, convert, publish or validate define‑xml files, odm metadata files as well as files from third party systems for more information, see docid\ lfp4len0wnxbzeounzp w dataset conversions dataset conversions can be run for datasets or asset groups you can upload a dataset to be used in a dataset conversion or choose source and target datasets from your existing content to run a dataset conversion you must define a mapping specification using the dataset mapper plugin, and run a conversion task data conversion api resources are available with the formedix web services api and can be used to automate conversions for more information, see the docid\ kmqgcz j0qe6 a9qvevuz see the docid\ uirdze0pggao0gidi ofd guide and the docid\ gduoezx5xga0pxwzrbypp guide crfs forms can be created manually and/or copied from standards you can choose to copy content from published standards (cdash) or from your own standardised content for example, if you create and standardize a form, you can then copy that form into another study to generate crf preview visualizations, make sure you have the crf plugin enabled when creating a form manually, you can start from the top (visit asset) and use the wizard to build your form, creating or copying child assets such as questions and terminologies as you go data capture assets are grouped into a data acquisition asset group in {{productname}} for more information, see the docid\ d4iptwhklby9syxlr9xrx guide visualizations visualizations provide the ability to see how your data will look in third party systems visualizations are made available when you enable docid\ axp ejp0n8yigbbjvgnpp