Clinical Trial Search

Owned by Zachary Restifo
Last updated: Mar 24, 2021
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Tridion allows you to list Clinical Trials on your website using the Clinical Trials components.

Rather than adding new clinical trials to your site adhoc, using the different Clinical Trials components will pull in information from the Clinical Trials System in the Profile System, a function much like the News Listing and PubMed Feed.

For more information about Clinical Trials in the Profile System, please visit the Clinical Trials instructions. 

 

The following instructions provide information on creating and adding the Clinical Trial Search function to a page in Tridion using Profile System data.

 

Table of Contents

 

Creating the Clinical Trial Search Component

The first step in creating a Clinical Trial Search is to create a Clinical Trial Search component.

Click New Component (blue) to begin creating a Clinical Trial Listing component.

 

In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

 

Creating a Clinical Trial Search component.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

  2. Choose Clinical Trial Search from the Schema drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

  3. Title: This is the title that will display above the Clinical Trial table.

  4. Organization ID: Enter an Organization's ID to limit the Clinical Trials and categories of trials in the search to the trials and categories that are associated with that Organization.

    • You can find an Organization ID in the profile system.

      • Click on the Organizations tab in the top navigation.

      • Find the organization in the list or use the Filter field to narrow the list.

      • Click the pencil/edit icon to the right of the organization.

      • You can find the ID under Organization ID in the top-right corner of the Information section.

  5. Categories: Enter the Filter ID(s) of the category or categories of trials you want to limit the search to.

When you have entered all of the information for your listing, Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue above), and you are ready to add it to a page.

 

Adding the Clinical Trial Search Component to a Page

After creating the Clinical Trial Search component, you can add the component to a page.

  1. Navigate in the Root folder to the page you'd like to add a Clinical Trial Search to and double-click to open the page.

  2. In the window that opens, click the Component Presentations tab.

  3. Click Insert at the bottom left of the page window.

  4. Browse to the Clinical Trial Listing component you created and click to select it.

  5. From the Component Template dropdown, select the Clinical Trial Search template.

  6. Click the Insert button at the bottom right, then the Close button.

  7. Save and Close the page, then you are ready to publish.

 

Example of a Clinical Trial Search on a Page

The screenshot below shows an example of a Clinical Trial Search template, as it appears on a website.

A Clinical Trial Search on a page.

 

The Clinical Trial Search is displayed in the center of the page (highlighted in yellow above), with a title, search bar, and button to go to a larger search.

  • The Title appears above the listing.

  • You can use the search bar to search through the selected Clinical Trials, determined by the parameters you set when creating the component.

  • Clicking More Options takes you to another page that allows you to search with a wider array of filters and results.