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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 sure it is saved to a secure BIDMC ITS approved location. Suggestions for when to backup data: Before...

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 following edit when trying to add the "Mocha" option to a question that asked about a favorite ice...

The list below is an abridged version of the REDCap Change Log Summary for the LTS 15.5.x branch, focusing on the end user impact at BILH. Improvement:: REDCap now supports the "ruby" HTML tag so that it may be utilized in user input (e.g., field labels, survey instructions). Improvement/change...

Newly available in REDCap version 15: Descriptive Popups! Descriptive popups are small pop-up boxes of text that become visible when hovering the mouse over a specific word or phrase on a data entry form or survey. Example: To add a descriptive pop-up: Go to the Online Designer page, and click on...

The study team member who requested an external user's account will be listed as the external user's sponsor, which grants them some additional abilities/responsibilities. On the My Projects page in REDCap, in the upper right hand corner, a sponsor may see two items: User Access Dashboard (allows...

The best documentation of the new REDCap Randomization features comes courtesy of the REDCap Team at Seattle Children's Hospital. The page below is linked with approval, and gratitude: Seattle Children's REDCap Randomization Documentation

Many organizations use Microsoft Azure Active Directory/Entra to centrally manage their users, so that users only have to remember one password, and can use that to log in to multiple applications. In addition, AD/Entra tends to do something called “pass-through” authentication, where if you are...

Development vs. Production 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 will suppress all warning messages related to data that is about to be lost. This is actually preferred...

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 delete it from existing records. To do this, add @HIDECHOICE= ' n' in the Action Tags box, where n is the...

Note: Text below originates from the REDCap Help & FAQ text: Action Tags are special terms that begin with the '@' sign that can be placed inside a field's Field Annotation. Each action tag has a corresponding action that is performed for the field when displayed on data entry forms and survey pages...