Bulk creation allows you to quickly create Registration records for manufacturing sites, also known as establishments, based on the data defined in the Application and Submission records for easy and consistent data entry. Vault creates unique registrations at the manufacturing site level, which provide approval for specified manufacturing sites to perform a particular set of roles for a particular type of product, for example a drug or a medical device, in a given country.

Values for Registration Records

When you use bulk registration creation, Vault creates different Registration records based on:

  • Values on the related Application record
  • Values on that application’s related records
  • Values you select during the bulk action
  • The Registration Scope for the Registration Type populated during the bulk action

How to Bulk Create Manufacturing Site Registrations

Before you start the bulk creation process, you must add all appropriate data to your submission or regulatory objective. When you’re ready to create registrations, Vault includes a wizard to guide you through the process. Labels and options in this wizard may vary depending on your Vault’s configuration.

After you run the Create Registrations wizard, you can’t start the wizard from the same record again until record creation is complete. This prevents Vault from creating duplicate records.

Starting Bulk Creation

To create Registration records in bulk:

  1. Open the associated Application or Regulatory Objective record from the Application or Regulatory Objective tab, or from Business Admin.
  2. Choose Create Registrations from the Actions menu. The action’s availability depends upon your Vault’s configuration (see Note). Additionally, the action is only available if the application has a Lead Market selected or if there are associated Country records through the Application: Country relationship.
  3. In the Registration Type field, confirm the defaulted value or select one accordingly.
  4. Select a Submission or Application. The action’s availability depends upon your Vault’s configuration (see Note). In either configuration, your selection controls what you see on the Manufacturing Site Role Details, Manufacturing Site Contact Role Details, and Manufacturing Site Organization Role Details steps that you see later in the bulk creation process when you select details to register.
  5. If required, select a Regulatory Objective to relate to each created Registration join record. This option is only available if activity and regulatory objective bundling is enabled in your Vault. If available, Vault automatically populates a Regulatory Objective based on the selected Submission.
  6. Click Next.
  7. On the Registration Details page, select the Countries for which you want to create registrations. You may remove defaulted countries and add others, but only countries associated with the selected application or countries selected by default are available here. If the Application Procedure is Centralised, Vault defaults to all EU and EEA countries. If you want to add the United Kingdom (XU) or United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) (XI) to a Centralised Procedure, they must be associated with the application, as they are no longer in the EU.
  8. Fill in any additional required Registration fields.
  9. Click Next to continue in the wizard and select the records to register.

Selecting Details to Register

After you fill in the registration details, you’ll see the Detail pages in the wizard, where you can select the individual records to register. On each page, you can click on column headers to sort the records or apply filters to object or lifecycle state fields by clicking the filter icon in the column to find records. If your Vault is configured to use object type mapping, you may not need to select object types for the created records.

  1. On the Manufacturing Site Role Details page, choose the Submission Site Role or Regulatory Objective Site Role records to register. Vault selects all records by default, but you can use the checkboxes or Deselect All to make changes.
  2. If available, select the object type for the Registered Site Role records, and fill in any other required fields.
  3. Click Next.
  4. On the Manufacturing Site Contact Role Details page, choose the Submission Site Contact or Regulatory Objective Contact records to register. The available records depend on your Vault’s configuration (see Note). If available, select the object type for the Registered Site Contact records, and fill in any other required fields. If you don’t want to associate any records, you may move to the next step.
  5. Click Next.
  6. On the Manufacturing Site Organization Role Details page, choose the Submission Organization or Regulatory Objective Organization records to register. The available records depend on your Vault’s configuration (see Note). If available, select the object type for the Registered Organization records, and fill in any other required fields. If you don’t want to associate any records, you may move to the next step.
  7. Click Next to proceed to the Confirmation page.

Completing Bulk Creation

On the Confirmation page, review the details of the Registration records you’re creating. Click Finish to start creating records. The records that Vault creates depend on the variables set throughout this process.

About Record Creation

About the Use for Registrations Field

When configured by an Admin, the Use for Registrations Yes/No field allows your organization to specify which records Vault considers when creating registrations in bulk.

For example, you may want to exclude certain records when an Application Inactive Ingredient consolidated detail record for all manufacturers is included in the dossier. To prevent the wizard from creating a corresponding Registered Inactive Ingredient, you can check No for the field within the Application Inactive Ingredient record.

Depending on your Vault’s configuration, the Use for Registrations field can be used within the below Event, Application, Submission, and Regulatory Objective relationship detail records (for example, Event Product and Regulatory Objective Nonclinical Study):

  • Product
  • Active Substance
  • Inactive Ingredient
  • Indication
  • Clinical Study
  • Nonclinical Study

Copying Custom Fields

Vault can copy custom field values from Submission join records to the new Registration join records as long as custom fields with matching names and field types are configured on both objects. Vault supports copying custom fields for Picklist, Object, Date, DateTime, Yes/No, Text, and Number field types.

Registration Scope Details

Vault creates one (1) Registration record for each combination of Country and Manufacturing Site.

Registration Field Auto-Population

When creating Registrations during bulk creation, Vault populates these fields depending on the Registration Scope:

Name

Vault assigns this based on the following standard, non-editable pattern: {Country > Country Code} – {Manufacturer > Manufacturing Site} – {Submission Site Role > Site Product Type}. If another record exists with the same name, Vault appends a five (5) digit number to the end, for example, “UK – MC2039” and “UK – MC2039-00001”.

Application

A reference relationship is automatically created between new Registrations and the Application from which you started the process.

Submission

This field points to the Submission record selected during bulk creation.

Country

Vault creates Registration records for each selected Country. This field will point to one of the selected Country records.

Health Authority

This field defaults only if there is a single health authority associated with the selected country.

Status

This field defaults to the object lifecycle’s starting state.

Registration Status Date

This field defaults to the date when you created the Registration.

Regulatory Objective

This field defaults to the Regulatory Objective you selected in the first step of the creation process or to the Regulatory Objective associated with the Submission you selected.

Manufacturing Site

This field defaults to the Manufacturing Site on the Submission Site Role on the Submission you selected during bulk creation.

Site Product Type

This field defaults to the Site Product Type on the Submission Site Role on the Submission you selected during bulk creation.

Object Relationships

Relationships between Registrations & Submission Site Role

When creating Registration records, Vault also creates many-to-many relationships between the Registrations and Submission Site Role records.

Vault creates one (1) Registered Site Role record for each site role detail selected in the wizard when the Manufacturing Site and Site Product Type on the Submission Site Role matches the values on the Registration.

Relationships between Registrations & Submission Site Contact

When creating Registration records, Vault also creates many-to-many relationships between the Registrations and Submission Site Contact records.

Vault creates one (1) Registered Site Contact record for each site contact detail selected in the wizard when the Manufacturing Site and Site Product Type on the Submission Site Contact matches the values on the Registration.

Relationships between Registrations & Submission Site Organization

When creating Registration records, Vault also creates many-to-many relationships between the Registrations and Submission Site Organization records.

Vault creates one (1) Registered Site Organization record for each site organization detail selected in the wizard when the Manufacturing Site and Site Product Type on the Submission Site Organization matches the values on the Registration.

Relationships between Registrations & Regulatory Objectives

If activity and regulatory objective bundling is enabled in your Vault, Vault also creates many-to-many relationships between the created Registrations and the Regulatory Objective record you selected in the wizard. Vault creates a Registration Regulatory Objective join record for each registration created.

If activity and regulatory objective bundling is not enabled in your Vault but the Submission record you selected in the wizard has a related regulatory objective, Vault creates many-to-many relationships between the created Registration records and the submission’s related regulatory objective. Vault creates a Registration Regulatory Objective join record for each registration created.

Bulk Action Processing Time & Notifications

Bulk creation occurs asynchronously, meaning that there may be a delay before you see the new records, particularly on Vaults with a lot of activity. Once you confirm a bulk creation, Vault puts the action in a queue with other asynchronous tasks. When the changes are complete, a note appears in your Notifications page and Vault sends you an email with a link to download the CSV summary file.

If Vault is unable to complete any of the creation tasks, the CSV file will include an explanation of the errors. Known reasons for these errors include:

  • Records that are in an active workflow will not be modified
  • Records already in the specified state will not be modified
  • No Registration Scope records match the selected Country and Registration Type

Bulk creation requires that your security profile grant Create permission on the objects you’re creating, for example, Registration, Registered Product1, Registered Packaging, and more. Note that Vault checks for the required permissions during the asynchronous record creation phase of the process. You may be able to view the action even if it is not available to you. Any field-level security your Admin has configured on these objects may impact record creation as well.

You must also have Read permission on the source records from which you initiate the wizard, for example, Event, Application, or Regulatory Objective, and the records from which the wizard pulls data, for example, Regulatory Objective Product1, Regulatory Objective Packaging, and more. If the objects use Dynamic Access Control, you must also have at least the Viewer role on the specific records. If your Vault uses field-level security, you must have Read permission on the fields from which Vault pulls data.

  1. In Vaults created after the 19R1 release, the following objects are relabeled to support medical devices. The Product (product__v) object is now Product Family. The Drug Product (drug_product__v) object is now Product. The Product Detail (product_detail__v) object is now Product Variant. In existing Vaults, Admins can update these objects manually 2