# OpenClinica User Manual

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

## About this book

This book is an unofficial voluntary work done by OpenClinica users.

### Introduction

OpenClinica is open source clinical trial software used for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) in clinical research. This book contains a series of guides to help users learn how to use OpenClinica for clinical data management.

#### Installing OpenClinica Community edition

The software download includes installation instructions, but for those in difficulty, this manual includes an Installation checklist. Further questions should be posted to email lists on community.openclinica.com/forum.