OpenClinica User Manual/GetStarted

OpenClinica User Manual Content
Introduction About	Installation: tips and issues Get Started Checklist for installation problems Popup calendar gives invalid dates Configuration of GMail as mailserver Installing Tomcat as a service Installing OpenClinica 3.0.4.1 on UBUNTU 10.10 Server Upgrading OpenClinica 3.0.4.x to 3.1.x on UBUNTU 10.04 Server ISA settings for OpenClinica 3.1.3.x Postgresql 9.x Support for special characters / utf-8	Rules Two ways to find OID's to use in a rule Useful links when creating rules Writing and testing rules Avoiding problems with OIDs Automate tasks with Selenium Write rules with Excel
Study Setup Creating a new Event Definition or Visit Setting up a test environment	CRF Appearance How to style a CRF with CSS and HTML How to style a CRF using jQuery How to show an image	CRF Creating a new CRF Creating a new version of an existing CRF Advantages of single-select dropdowns Assigning a CRF to a study Standards and Reuse Avoiding problems with OIDs Automating test data, range validation and content separation Textarea size limit Manipulating text for use in CRFs CRFs that include uploaded data files Validation of a time field using a regular expression Calculations and functions (pow & decode) in a CRF How to calculate the age in a CRF How to use long, external lists How to copy the variables from the CRF header into your CRF
Conducting a study Assigning users to sites, why and how Removing subjects and this auto-remove-thing Editing a subject's date of birth Delete row in repeating group Locking Study, Sites and Events Community data mart using Access	System Maintenance Backup and restore of an OpenClinica installation Reset the password of root OutOfMemoryError, or: increasing the heap size Optimizing OpenClinica Performance Optimizing PostgreSQL Setting up a reverse proxy to enhance performance Running multiple OpenClinica instances on a single server Issues highlighted by analysing an OpenClinica page Renaming datasets Waiting for changelog lock error A starting point for system validation The OpenClinica generic error page: An error has occurred Change the RSS feed URL The tomcat AJP-vulnerability (Mar 2020)	FAQ Disable Reason for Change during data entry Fixing Discrepancy Note exports Interfaces to OpenClinica (e.g. data capture with little or no connectivity) Importing data into OpenClinica Exporting to SAS, R and Stata Content Encoding Error Firefox v20 and prototype.js and also Chrome/Safari

Table of Contents

• Login Page
• Username/Password
• Initial Password Change
• Main Page

Get started

Login Page

After successfully installing OpenClinica it is possible to access OpenClinica through a web browser. Type

http://localhost:8080/OpenClinica/

Login Page

and the browser will direct the user to the OpenClinica login page.

http://localhost:8080/OpenClinica/pages/login/login

Do not forget that Tomcat is case-sensitive, so localhost:8080/openclinica will not work, neither will localhost:8080/OPENCLINICA, etc.

Username/Password

The default user credential for OpenClinica is

username: root
password: 12345678

Fill in the username and password fields and press login.

Initial Password Change

Initial Password Change

If the login has been successful you will be asked to change the default password. Type in the new one and proceed with Change Password.

Main Page

This indicates that the OpenClinica main page and the OpenClinica installation function.

Main Page