OpenClinica Documentation and Training Site

OpenClinica 4 User Documentation
- 1 Administration
- 2 Building Forms and Studies
  - 2.1 Create a Study
  - 2.2 Design a Study
    - 2.2.1 Using the Form Template
    - 2.2.2 Events & Forms
    - 2.2.3 Using Form Designer
    - 2.2.4 Form Logic
    - 2.2.5 Functions
      - 2.2.5.1 OpenClinica Validated Functions Index
    - 2.2.6 Rules
    - 2.2.7 Locating Object Identifiers in a Study
    - 2.2.8 Content Library
    - 2.2.9 Create and Configure Data Review Tables
  - 2.3 Module Management
  - 2.4 Form Library (CDASH)
- 3 Getting Started
  - 3.1 How to Get Help
  - 3.2 For OC3 Users
  - 3.3 Logging In
  - 3.4 OpenClinica Basics
    - 3.4.1 OpenClinica Navigation
    - 3.4.2 The Participant Matrix
    - 3.4.3 Adding a Participant
    - 3.4.4 The Participant Details Screen
    - 3.4.5 Events
    - 3.4.6 Viewing and Entering Data on Forms
    - 3.4.7 Your Home Screen
    - 3.4.8 Managing Your Account
    - 3.4.9 Frequently Used Screens
    - 3.4.10 Frequently Used Terms
    - 3.4.11 How to Log Out
- 4 Getting Data for Your Study: Reports and Extracts
  - 4.1 Data Review Tables
  - 4.2 Back-End Access Via Insight
  - 4.3 Extract Data
- 5 Launching and Managing Studies
  - 5.1 Publishing Your Study
  - 5.2 User Access & Sharing
    - 5.2.1 Using the Share Screen
    - 5.2.2 Adding Sites
    - 5.2.3 Inviting Users
    - 5.2.4 Publish History
    - 5.2.5 Editing Study Settings
    - 5.2.6 Using Multifactor Authentication
- 6 Using OpenClinica as a CRC
  - 6.1 Queries (CRC)
  - 6.2 Add Participants
  - 6.3 Entering Data
- 7 Using OpenClinica as an Investigator
  - 7.1 Signing Participant Records
- 8 Using OpenClinica as a Monitor
  - 8.1 Source Data Verification
  - 8.2 Queries (Monitor)
- 9 Using OpenClinica as a Data Manager
- 10 Importing Data
  - 10.1 Importing XML Files
  - 10.2 Importing Tabular Data
- 11 Completing Your Study
- 12 OpenClinica eConsent
- 13 OpenClinica Insight
  - 13.1 SQL Guide
  - 13.2 Front-end API Guide
  - 13.3 Insight Reporting Guide
- 14 OpenClinica Participate
- 15 OpenClinica Randomize
- 16 How and When to Use APIs
- 17 Help Index
  - 17.1 Study Runner
    - 17.1.1 Submit Data
      - 17.1.1.1 Queries
    - 17.1.2 Monitor and Manage Data
    - 17.1.3 Extract Data
    - 17.1.4 Reports
  - 17.2 Study Designer
    - 17.2.1 Form Card
- 18 Knowledge Articles
OpenClinica 3 User Documentation
OpenClinica 3 Technical Documentation
LMS FAQ's
Release Notes (OC4)
Release Notes (OC3)
Data Mart Guide

10.15.1 Overview of the Upgrade Process on Windows Systems

Ensure your system complies with software dependencies and system requirements.
Back up OpenClinica.
Upgrade OpenClinica.
Configure OpenClinica:

Ensure that OpenClinica is configured for optimum performance as described here: Configure OpenClinica for Optimum Performance.
You may also need to configure OpenClinica for internationalization should you wish to utilize OpenClinica in different languages. Also, if you need to use some UTF-8 characters in your application, you may need to modify your default connecter configuration. For more information regarding configuring OpenClinica for internationalization and using UTF-8 characters, please refer to https://docs.openclinica.com/3.1/technical-documents/openclinica-and-internationalization

Verify the upgrade.
Make manual updates to the database. The instructions are the same as for upgrading OpenClinica on Linux systems, except the README file on Windows systems is located at:
c:ocinstallOpenClinica-v.x.yconfigdatabasesPostgreSQL

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