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  1. Go to the REDCap configuration page for your collection protocol of choice.

  2. Click on the ‘More' option and select ‘+Add Another’.

  3. Configure the new project as shown above.

Mapping PVs from REDCap to corresponding PVs of OpenSpecimen

Ans: It is a very common problem faced by the integration of any two disparate systems. Let's say you want to map the gender value "M" received from the REDCap project to the corresponding OpenSpecimen PV "Male". In OpenSpecimen, you can do this by adding the property value to the dropdown of your choice, as shown below:

One-to-One Mapping

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titleSteps for mapping one PV from REDCap to one PV on OpenSpecimen

Let's say you want to map the gender value "M" received from the REDCap project to the corresponding OpenSpecimen PV "Male". To do so, you can follow the given steps:

  1. Go to Extras from the homepage and select Dropdown Manager.

  2. Click on the "Gender" attribute and click on 'Male' PV.

  3. Click on 'Edit', and under properties, enter the name of the PV Mapping Key and its corresponding value for your REDCap study.

Mapping Specific CP

The property name is the same as the "PV Mapping Key" displayed on the OS-RC configuration page.

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Mapping for all CPs under a single site

The property name is RC_<site_id>. The site ID can be obtained from the sites list view in the following steps:

  1. Go to the 'site' page from the homepage and select the sites you are interested in.

  2. Click on the 'Export' button to download the .csv file.

  3. Open the file, and you can see the 'site id' as 'identifier'.

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Mapping all REDCap projects irrespective of sites or CP

The property name is RC, as illustrated in the below image.

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Many-to-One Mapping

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titleSteps to mapping multiple PV from REDCap to one PV on OpenSpecimen

It is possible to map multiple PVs from REDCap to one PV on OpenSpecimen using caret (^) as the delimiter. For example, you want to map multiple gender values received
from the REDCap (M, Male, and Ma) to one corresponding OpenSpecimen PV "Male". To do so, you can follow the given steps:

Mapping Specific CP

The property name is the same as the "PV Mapping Key" displayed on the OS-RC configuration page.

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