i2b2 Workplace View

Information in the Workplace View is related to the most common concepts and queries that an individual uses and in essence becomes their personal workspace.  The main objectives of this view are:

§         Save and organize user specific items.

§         Share information with other project users.

§         Project managers can view the workplace for individual team members.

 

The items stored in the Workplace View can be used in many of the i2b2 views, such as Query Tool, Timeline and Export Data.

 

Introduction

This section describes the layout and contents of this view.

 

Layout of the Workplace View

Information in the Workplace View is related to the most common concepts and queries that an individual uses and in essence becomes their personal workplace.

 

Figure 1         Workplace View

 

 

The Workplace view is hierarchical display of the items added by the user.  There are three main branches or components of the tree that displays.

 

User Folder

The highest level is the individual user folder ().  This folder is automatically created with the user’s name and it stores items added by the individual user. This level cannot be used when creating a query.

 

Note: This also includes the Shared folder.

 

 

Folders

A folder () contains other folders and/or items added by the user.  It can be expanded and collapsed by clicking on the plus () or minus () sign next to it.   A user defined folder cannot be dragged to other views.  It can be moved around within the workplace view.

 

 

Items

Items are the lowest level of the hierarchy. They cannot be expanded further.  Some examples of items are listed below.

§         concepts ()

§         group of concepts (ontology folder) ()

§         group templates ()

§         patient lists ()

§         query definitions ()