Though REDCap has safeguards in place to protect against data loss from disasters and mistakes, backups provide an additional layer of security and are a best practice. If the data is downloaded, be...
Deleting a record should not be undertaken lightly. It may require notification of the IRB or PI, depending on the situation. Best practice guidelines are to document the record id, what is being...
If a question, or set of questions, will not be used in the future, it is generally better to hide the question(s), rather than delete them. If the question is deleted, that also deletes that data...
Sometimes it is necessary to hide one or more of the possible answers (also known as "retire a choice" or "retire an option"). This prevents an answer from being used in the future, but does not...
A critical issue is a change to your project that will cause data to be deleted or radically altered. This includes deleting a field or incorrectly editing a field. In this example, a user made the...
REDCap saves the raw value (also called the choice number: 1,2,3,4), not the label, when saving the data for a field. That means if you change the label, or renumber labels, you can profoundly change...
REDCap projects in production can be edited but the process is slightly different from editing in development mode. When in production, the user must first enter Draft Mode by clicking the "Enter...
The REDcap application assumes that any data entered in development mode is test data. While in development mode, REDCap does NOT track changes to a project's design and...
