7.2 Permissions for User Roles and Types

The OpenClinica features you can access depend on your User Type and Role. When your User Type or Role does not have permission for a module or feature, OpenClinica does not present it as an option. If you are trying to use a module or feature in OpenClinica but cannot find it where the User Documentation indicates it should be, it's probably because your User Role or Type does not have permission for it.

To see the modules and main features that a User Role has permissions for, refer to the table in Summary of Features Available to User Roles or view the User Matrix.

To see which users have permission to use a module, and to see further restrictions of features within a module, see the section for that module on this page.

• 7.2.1 Summary of Features Available to User Roles

  
  

  The following tables summarize the modules and features available to each of the User Roles at the Study and Site levels.

  Summary of Available Modules and Features for User Roles at the Study Level

  User Role	Modules and Main Features
  Data Manager	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events No Waiting to Perform Double Data Entry After Initial Data Entry Import Data Notes and Discrepancies Monitor and Manage Data: Study Audit Log and Source Data Verification Manage Groups Create, Edit, and Manage CRFs Rules Extract Data Study Setup: View and Build Study Assign Users Home page presents summary of current Study or Site.
  Study Director	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events No Waiting to Perform Double Data Entry After Initial Data Entry Import Data Notes and Discrepancies Monitor and Manage Data: Study Audit Log and Source Data Verification Manage Groups Create, Edit, and Manage CRFs Rules Extract Data Study Setup: View and Build Study Assign Users Home page presents summary of current Study or Site.
  Data Specialist	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events Import Data Notes and Discrepancies Sign Subject data Extract Data
  Monitor	Monitor and Manage Data: View Subjects View Events Study Audit Log and Source Data Verification Notes and Discrepancies Extract Data
  Data Entry Person	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events Import Data Notes and Discrepancies

   

  Summary of Available Modules and Features for User Roles at the Site Level

  User Role	Modules and Main Features
  Investigator	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events Import Data Notes and Discrepancies Sign Subject Data Extract Data
  Monitor (site)	Monitor and Manage Data: View Subjects View Events Study Audit Log and Source Data Verification Notes and Discrepancies Extract Data
  Clinical Research Coordinator	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events Import Data Notes and Discrepancies
  Data Entry Person (Same as Clinical Research Coordinator; use to differentiate office job titles for similar job function if necessary.)	Submit Data: Add and Manage Subjects View, Schedule, and Enter Data into CRFs for Events Import Data Notes and Discrepancies

• 7.2.2 Submit Data Module - Permissions

  
  

  To access the Submit Data module, your User Role cannot be Monitor. Restricted features in the Submit Data Module for other User Roles are listed here.

  Subject Features

  • To remove a Subject from a Study or Site or to restore a Study Subject, your User Role cannot be Data Entry Person or Clinical Research Coordinator.
  • To assign a Subject to another Site within the Study, your User Role must be Data Manager or Study Director.

  Signing Events and Subject Casebooks

  • To sign a Study Event or a Subject casebook, your User Role must be Investigator or Data Specialist.

  CRF Data and Event Features

  • To remove and restore Study Event CRFs, remove and restore Study Events, or delete Study Events, your User Role must be Study Director or Data Manager.
  • To delete Study Event CRFs, your User Type must be "business administrator" or "technical administrator."
  • To set Study Event Status to "locked," your User Role must be Data Manager or Study Director, or your User Type must be "business administrator" or "technical administrator."

  Notes and Discrepancies Features

  • To set the status of a Discrepancy Note to "closed," your Role must by Data Manager, Study Director, or Monitor.

  For information about features in the module, see Submit Data.

• 7.2.3 Monitor and Manage Data Module - Permissions

  
  

  To access the monitoring features in the Monitor and Manage Data module, your User Role must be Monitor, Data Manager, or Study Director. For information about features in the module, see Monitor and Manage Data.

  The features within the module that you can access depend on your User Role and User Type:

  Role	Features	Notes
  Monitor	Subject Matrix	Can only view. Cannot make changes to information.
  	View Events	Can only view. Cannot make changes to information.
  	Source Data Verification	No restrictions.
  	Study Audit Log	No restrictions.
  	Notes and Discrepancies	Can create only the Query type of Discrepancy Note. Can only update or close an existing Discrepancy Note.
  Study Director or Data Manager	Source Data Verification	No restrictions.
  	Study Audit Log	No restrictions.
  	Rules	Study level only.
  	Group	Study level only.
  	CRFs	Study level only. User Type must be "business administrator" or "technical administrator" to edit, remove, restore, or delete CRFs.

• 7.2.4 Extract Data Module - Permissions

  
  

  To access the Extract Data module, your User Role cannot be Data Entry Person or Clinical Research Coordinator. Other restricted features in the Extract Data are listed here:

  • To remove or restore dataset definitions you created, your User Role must be Data Manager.
    
  • To remove or restore dataset definitions you did not create, your User Type must be "business administrator" or "technical administrator."
    

  For information about features in the module, see Extract Data.

• 7.2.5 Study Setup Module - Permissions

  
  

  To access the Study Setup module, your User Role must be Data Manager or Study Director.

  • Only users whose User Type is "business administrator" or "technical administrator" can edit, remove, restore, or delete CRFs.
    

  For information about features in the module, see Study Setup.
  

• 7.2.6 Administration Module - Permissions

  
  

  To access the Administration module, your User Type must be "business administrator" or "technical administrator." You can access all the features in the Administration module no matter what your user Role is. For more about Administration module permissions, see User Types.

  For information about features in the module, see Administration.

• 7.2.7 Module for Other Features - Permissions

  
  

  No features in the Other module are restricted based on User Role or Type. All users can change their own profile and log out.

  For information about the features in the module, see Getting Started with OpenClinica.