When you are ready to see how your study works in Study Runner, you can publish to Test. In addition to letting you use Study Runner features, publishing to Test generates OIDs that can be used for edit checks (constraints and required values), cross-form logic, skip logic (relevant fields), calculations, and testing API integrations.

Warning: Once you publish your study, you can still change the design of your study as needed without having to change Form version information. In other words, you can update your Form definitions without adding new versions of the Forms. The only Form definition properties that cannot be changed after a Form has been published are as follows:

  • You cannot change the data type of an item.
  • You cannot move an item into or out of a repeating group.
  • You cannot change the bind::oc:itemgroup value for an item.

If you need to change any of these Form properties, you can remove the original item and replace it with a new item on the Form. You can still add a new Form without any of these restrictions.

To Publish Your Study to Test

  1. In Study Designer, click the Publish header button.
  2. Select Test.
  3. Click Publish to confirm that you want to publish your study.

Once you publish your study, click the Go header button, and select Test to enter Study Runner and start adding participants, entering data, creating queries, etc.

When you have thoroughly tested your study, you can publish it to Production. This should be done only when you feel that you wont need to make any more major changes.

Warning: Once you publish a study to Production, in addition to the changes above, ANY change to a Form requires you to change the Form version. You cannot:

  • Change a Common Event to a Visit Based Event.
  • Change a Visit Based Event to a Common Event.
  • Change a Repeating Event to a Non-Repeating Event.
  • Overwrite a Form version; you must create a new version.

To Publish Your Study to Production

  1. In Study Designer, click the Publish header button.
  2. Select Production.
  3. Click Publish to confirm that you want to publish your study.