1. User Guide and Online Help
  2. Settings and administration
  3. Configure the system
  4. Manage signal configurations
  5. Edit a signal configuration

Edit a signal configuration

Change aspects of scripted, interactive, and multisource signal configurations.

The properties that you can edit vary depending on whether the configuration type is scripted, interactive, multisource, or multi-enterprise enabled.

Note:

You must have Manage Signal Configurations user permission to perform the following actions.
In the product-event combinations panel, select a tab to display a specific product-event combinations table determined by the tab view. By default, there is a tab for each active alert type. If a default view has been configured this will be the first tab on the left. The first tab on the left displays the default view if a default view has been configured for either the product or the signal configuration. Depending on the setup, the default view is:
  • The product default view, if selected.
  • The configuration’s default view, if no product default view is selected.
  • No default view tab, if no product or signal configuration default view is selected.
  1. In the left navigation pane, click the Settings icon (Settings icon).
  2. In the Configure System section, click Manage Signal Configurations.
  3. Click the Row Action menu (Row Action menu icon) for the signal configuration, and then click Edit.
  4. Edit the fields according to the table below.
    By default, there is a tab for each active alert type. Also if a default view has been configured this will be the first tab on the left. The first tab on the left displays the default view if a default view has been configured for either the product or the signal configuration. Depending on the setup, the default view is:
    • The product default view, if selected.
    • The configuration’s default view, if no product default view is selected.
    • No default view tab, if no product or signal configuration default view is selected.
    • If the signal configuration Type is Interactive, an Interactive Signal Configuration Properties section appears in the Edit Signal Configuration page.
    • If the signal configuration Type is Multisource, see Edit a multisource signal configuration.
  5. Click Save.

    Oracle Empirica Signal validates the signal configuration, and any errors are displayed at the top of the page.

Field descriptions—Edit Signal Configurations
Fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the table are available only for interactive signal configurations.
Field Description

Name

Signal configuration name. This name appears on the Signal Review page, above the product-event combination table.

Description

Description of the signal configuration.

Default signal view

Name of the default signal view appearing as the global default for the signal configuration. This view appears as the left-most tab when viewing the Panels of the Product-Event Combinations page on the Signal Review page. If a different default view is specified for a specific product, the product's default view takes precedence and is shown when viewing that product.

Topic workflow configuration

Name of the topic workflow configuration that is integrated with the signal management configuration. When this integration exists, users can associate topics with product-event combinations using the Submit Review dialog box, and topics are stored in this topic workflow configuration.

Note:

If product-event combinations have associated topics, you cannot change the associated topic workflow configuration until you remove the associated topics. The Signal History maintains a log of all changes.

Note:

If you do change the integrated topic workflow configuration, exit the application and log in to the application again.

Topic product field
Select a custom field to store the product name. When you click Submit Review for a Product-Event Combination and you create a new topic, the field designated as the Topic Product Field fills automatically with the product name. Use the Topic product field filter when browsing for existing topics from the Submit Review dialog box.

Note:

The Topic Product field is restricted to custom fields that must have values:
  • Context = Topics
  • Format = String
  • Type = Single Value

Disable default view

Select to disable the default view on the Product-Event Combinations page. When disabled, both the default view for the signal configuration and the default view specified for a specific product are ignored.

Disable review period

Select to disable the Review Period column and Review Period filter on the Manage Signal Views page.

Disable private comment

Select to disable private comments for product-event combinations.

Interactive Signal Configuration Properties

When editing interactive signal configurations you can modify the following additional properties.

Data configuration for 2D runs

Name of the data configuration or an alias used to execute two-dimensional data mining runs. Typically, this data configuration excludes reports from studies and literature.

Use the drop-down list to select a configuration or alias. Use Browse to select a configuration.

Data configuration for 3D runs

Name of the data configuration or an alias used to execute three-dimensional data mining runs. Typically, this data configuration includes concomitant products.

Use the drop-down list to select a configuration or alias. Use Browse to select a configuration.

Drug variable

Drug Variable used in data mining runs, for example, Product Generic Name or Preferred Product Name.

Event variable for 2D runs

Event Variable used in two-dimensional data mining runs, for example, PT (Preferred Term) or SMQs (Standardised MedDRA Queries).

Event variable for 3D runs

Event variable used in three-dimensional data mining runs, for example, PT (Preferred Term). Typically, this variable does not include SMQs due to the size of the data mining results table.

For three-dimensional data mining runs, the Drug variableis also used.

Stratification variables

Stratification variables used in data mining runs.

Subset variable for signal history

For data mining runs, subset variable that provides results in the winView Signal History page.

Subset variable for Nsince counts

For data mining runs, subset variable that provides results in the Nsince column on the Product-Event Combinations page.

Project for data mining runs

Name of the project used to store data mining runs that are part of a refresh.

Publish data mining runs

Select to publish the data mining runs created when a user refreshes the signal management configuration.

By default, the runs are published to the same login group that the signal configuration is published to. A user can manually publish the data mining runs to additional login groups.

Allow reviewers to manage their product's reference data

Select to enable all reviewers of a product to configure Targeted Medical Events and Listed Events for the product in the Products table on the Signal Review page.

If deselected, only superusers and reviewers with the Manage Signaling Terms user permission can configure Targeted Medical Events and Listed Events.

Parent topic: Manage signal configurations