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Toolbar

The toolbar in the eClinical application is located right below the application header. It comprises components and functions that are more specific to the application you are working with. For example, it shows you the current application tab or page under which you are working.

Toolbar components
Figure 1. Toolbar components

The toolbar components and functions may vary across eClinical applications. However, the most common toolbar components are the following:

  • Breadcrumbs: (also, a breadcrumb trail) is your navigational aid that provides links back to a previous page or pages through which you have navigated and indicates your current location within the application. In some applications, selecting home_blue.jpg before the breadcrumb trail takes you directly to the home page of the application.

    In most apps, the breadcrumb trail elements are interactive and serve for easy navigation. Such as in CTMS, you can select the study, country, and site to access their data management, in EDC, you can access the needed subject for data entry, in IWRS, switch between depots and sites when handling inventories and shipments, and so on.

    Interactive toolbar features of CTMS
    Figure 2. Interactive toolbar features of CTMS

  • Lifecycle menu: expand this dropdown menu to switch between clinical trial lifecycles—DEV, UAT, or PROD—within which you can work and select the corresponding user role available to you in each lifecycle.

    Selecting lifecycle and user role
    Figure 3. Selecting lifecycle and user role

  • Favorite favorites_icon.png: in some applications, this icon is provided to mark the current page as a favorite. Then, to find your favorite pages, you can use the Favorites section of the Quick panel.

  • Set Landing Page set_landing_page_icon.png: in some applications, this icon is provided to configure your custom landing page that opens by default upon logging in to the application. Upon selection, in the Set Landing Page dialog, choose one of the system-suggested options to set as your landing page.

    Examples of setting custom landing pages
    Figure 4. Examples of setting custom landing pages

In this section:

An eClinical application that is mainly used to manage and control the personnel, communication, budget, progress, expenses, documents, and declaration involved in the entire clinical trial. It provides study and site management, study quality control, study progress tracking, project management, risk management, reports, and a visualized dashboard.

Get to know all the possibilities of the app with the comprehensive CTMS User Guide.

In a clinical trial, a location where the subject treatment and drug dispensation occur. It can be a hospital, a private laboratory, or other institutions.

An eClinical application that is mainly used to collect and manage subject data during clinical trials. It integrates with the Study Designer (SD) application and uses preconfigured there case report forms (CRFs) to complete data collection and management. It also provides an audit trail, data alert, source data verification (SDV), payment management, adjudication, and other functions as well as supports data export according to the CDISC ODM standard.

Get to know all the possibilities of the app with the comprehensive EDC User Guide.

A participant who is enrolled in a clinical trial and assigned to the site.

An eClinical application that represents unified and configurable subject randomization and trial supply management tool for subject grouping, drug inventories, shipments, and dispensations, as well as other vital processes during a clinical trial.

Get to know all the possibilities of the app with the comprehensive IWRS User Guide.

A warehouse that is used to store and distribute items (drugs) to another destination (other depots or sites).

In eClinical, an environment that is designed to support a clinical trial development process, for instance, DEV for the development process, UAT for testing activities, and PROD for production.