Clinical Trial Highlight

Owned by Zachary Restifo
Mar 24, 2021
3 min read

Tridion allows you to list Clinical Trials on your website using 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 Clinical Trial Highlights in Tridion using Profile System data and inserting them on to a page.

 

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Creating the Clinical Trial Highlight Component

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

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

 

  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

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

  3. Trial ID you would like to highlight: Enter the ID for the trial you want to highlight on your page.

    • This is not the HIC ID/Trial ID, this component uses the ID from the URL of the Trial’s page in the Profile System.

    • To obtain the correct ID:

      • Log into the Profile System using your NetID

      • Click on the Clinical Studies tab in the top navigation.

      • Find the Clinical Trial in the list or use the Filter parameters to narrow the list.

      • Click on the trial or the pencil/edit icon to the right of the trial to visit the trial’s page.

      • The ID you need is the 4 digit number in the URL for the trial’s page.

        • If the URL is “profile.yale.edu/ClinicalStudies/6854/ClinicalStudy/Edit”, the ID is 6854.

Only trials that have the Status “Displayed on Websites” and are open to accrual (in other words, Current Trials that are accepting volunteers) will show up in a Clinical Trial Highlight.

 

Once you have entered the Trial ID, Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue above) and you are ready to add it to a page.

 

Adding the Clinical Trial Highlight Component to a Page

After creating the Clinical Trial Highlight 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 Highlight 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 Highlight component you created and click to select it.

  5. From the Component Template dropdown, select the Clinical Trial Highlight 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 Highlight on a Page

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

A Clinical Trial Highlight on a page.

 

There are some things to notice about the Clinical Trial Highlight (highlighted in yellow above).

  1. The Read More & Volunteer button sends you to a page with the details of the Trial.

  2. The highlight is marked as a Clinical Trial (highlighted in blue above).

  3. The highlight displays the Principal Investigator of the trial (highlighted in green above).

  4. You can also see the trial’s Title and a preview of some trial information (highlighted in red above).