Clearing unconnected records
The Clean Ups > Clear Unconnected Recs item on the administrator menu bar is only available to the administrator. Unconnected records are created when someone deletes a record while another user has locked an associated record in Read Write mode. For example, someone may delete a Subject record while one of the subject's Tumor_Description records was locked and thus could not be deleted. In this case, the Tumor record would no longer have a Subject record to connect with.
This option must be used carefully if the data file includes records imported from participants in a multi-site clinical study. In this case, records may have been imported for the purposes of the study that are not connected to a Subject record in the data file. By default, this function will avoid deleting these unconnected records as long as the Participant IDs for the different study sites are all unique.
After selecting Clear Unconnected Records, you can remove all unconnected records for: