The Exporter was chosen as the first release for YES3. It is a valuable stand-alone tool for sharing and analyzing data . The Exporter adds functionality to support data sharing and integration with statistical software. Key improvements include expanded layout options, speed, and export-specific data dictionaries.
Exporter Main Screenshot where exports are created, downloaded, and exported.
Features
- Flexible output spreadsheet layouts
- Vertical- standard layout
- Horizontal- longitudinal design (one row per record, all events).
- Repeating form
- Speed- good performance on large exports
- In testing it took 186 seconds to export 3,272 rows and 3,079 columns to a 33MB export CSV file
- Optimized for datamart integrations: payload includes data, data dictionary, data distributions and project metadata.
- Data dictionary that includes metadata and data distributions
- Each export is accompanied by a customized data dictionary
- Detailed audit for every export download
- Ability to receive automatic email notifications summarizing export activity
- Audit logs can be easily browsed and downloaded
- Incorporates form-specific user access and export rights
- REDCap v14 user-rights options
- Supports deidentified and coded datasets that mirror the REDCap parent system
- Any number of export templates may be designed and re-used
- Export specifications can be rolled back and restored to a prior version
- Can write directly to a host filesystem, e.g. to secure mounted institutional file shares
How do I get it?
Yale/YNHH Users:
Contact us to learn more about accessing and using the YES3 External Modules.
External Users:
Please do not send us a request to set up a REDCap account to use YES3. Our system is only available to Yale/YNHH affiliates.
YES3 modules are released to the Vanderbilt External Module (EM) Repository. You can search the Vanderbilt EM repository. Modules from the study support suite start with the “YES3” identifier.