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Adding Comments to an FDB Record

Approvers can add comments to an FDB record that has no associated VA Customizations by entering their comment in the “Pre-Customization Comment” field on the FDB record and clicking the add comment button.  Comment will be visible to all users in the “Pre-Customization Comment History” field.   Once the FDB record is customized, the Pre-Customization Comment History field will be visible on the customized record, and approvers will no longer have the ability to add new comments

 

History of Changes

Whenever changes occur to any of the Customization requests (Duplicate Therapy, Professional Monograph, Dose Range, or Drug-Drug Interaction), it can be important to know what those changes are at a glance. You can see these changes in the read-only detail page of each of the concepts (the editable detail page of each concept cannot support the icons and mouse-over tables due to limitations with a screen-reader). The Drug-Drug Interaction detail page is shown below, but the view is virtually identical in all the concepts with, of course, the relevant fields for that particular concept identified. See the list of relevant fields in the Customization concepts Drug-Drug Interaction Detail, Professional Monograph,  Duplicate Therapy Detail, and Dose Range.

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The History of Changes is displayed in two ways: on-screen, via an on-screen table that is displayed interactively above an icon that displays over the name of the required field that has been changed (see screen shot above), and via the History of Changes Report. On the on-screen table, for all concepts, only required fields are reported upon.

The on-screen table that displays the History of Changes shows a quick snapshot of the record's history within its current state. Once the record moves to a different milestone state, the history of changes are re-set. To view ALL the historical changes a record has incurred on the reportable fields, the user needs to access the History of Changes Report.

In the History of Changes Report, all editable fields, with a couple of exceptions, are reported upon. Note that Current Action Reason, though a required field, is never reported upon in the report nor on the on-screen table.

The image below is a partial image of a History Report.  All changes are shown in red.

History of Changes Report

 

Note: In the Dose Range concept, FDB records cannot be obtained after Customizations are made. Therefore, any History of Changes will not display the original FDB value.