Information about production libraries
About production libraries |
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Use | Use production libraries for study objects that have been tested in the target application and that will be reused in other studies. |
Users | Oracle recommends allowing only librarians to work in the library. |
Number to create | You can create one or many. Oracle recommends creating multiple production libraries to maximize scalability. When planning library development, encourage the use of standards. As the number of libraries grows, you can restrict searches to specific libraries so that you are searching only for study objects that are related to the study that you are developing. |
Adding study objects | Oracle recommends that you develop an approval process for adding study objects to a production library. The approval process, which happens outside of the Central Designer application, might be conducted by a standards committee. After a study object has been tested, approved, and added to a production library, you can add the study object to additional production libraries without retesting it. Therefore, you can use the principles of reuse for building libraries as well as studies. If you use the Copy > Link option, the new study object retains a link to the original study object. |
Modifications to study objects | To maintain the integrity of a production library, do not modify study objects that are in the library, except in unusual circumstances in which the change must be propagated to all studies that use the study object, or if the change:
Oracle recommends modifying a study object outside the production library, and then adding the modified study object to the production library as a new study object. |
Searches | Oracle recommends that you allow users to search production libraries and view all published objects in them. |
Questions to consider while planning |
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