Application Programming Interface (API)

APIs provide a mechanism for interacting with REDCap directly without using the menus and user interface. The REDCap API can be used to: import external data and metadata into a project, export data and metadata from a project, and to interact with the mobile application.

API tokens are issued per user, per project, and do not transfer between projects and cannot be used by another user.

• Project users must have appropriate user rights to request an API token

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• API tokens can be requested by users within the project from the left-hand Applications menu

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• Please contact a REDCap administrator to discuss any API needs

• No identifiable data can be exported from this environment, including through the API

Integrated Services

(REDCap) Mobile Application

(REDCap) MyCap

Tableau

http://www.tableau.com

Tableau is a powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry. It helps in simplifying raw data in a very easily understandable format. Tableau helps create the data that can be understood by professionals at any level in an organization. Tableau is a visual analytics engine that makes it easier to create interactive visual analytics in the form of dashboards. These dashboards make it easier for non-technical analysts and end users to convert data into understandable, interactive graphics

Tango

Twilio

External Modules

External Modules are add-on packages of software that can extend REDCap's current functionality, as well as provide customizations and enhancements for REDCap's existing behavior and appearance, either at the system level or project level. These were created and submitted by software developers at various REDCap institutions around the world. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) REDCap development team completes a security scan primarily based on Psalm's Security Analysis with a custom configuration generated on the fly for each module. While no security scan should be considered 100% accurate, the scan is constantly improving and becoming more robust on new submissions. It primarily targets injection vulnerabilities including but not limited to:

• SQL Queries

• Cross Site Scripting

• Cookies

• Headers

• Path Traversal

• Shell Commands

• LDAP Requests

• Curl Calls

The ASU Research Technology, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity team (RTIC) conducts scans using a script provided by the VUMC REDCap development team and reviews any vulnerabilities prior to downloading or updating the module on the respective environment.

Here is a list of modules available and guidelines for submitting your own module that can be added to our system.

External modules that have been requested, reviewed, and approved for use can be found in the Project Module Manager, accessible from within a REDCap project above the ‘Help & Information’ section, below the ‘Reports’ section.

Access to the Project Module Manager requires Project Design/Setup user rights.

The link below directs to the Project Module Manager within a specific REDCap project. Replace the version number (e.g. 15.1.1) with the current REDCap system version and replace the PID (e.g. 682) with the project you want to navigate to. https://redcap.asu.edu/redcap_v15.1.1/ExternalModules/manager/project.php?pid=682.

To request a new external module not yet available in the system, please submit a request here.

The RTIC team will scan the module and review the results for any vulnerabilities. Scans are conducted on the 15th of every month on a development environment, vulnerabilities are reviewed and system impacts are monitored for 2 weeks.

If it passes, the module will be downloaded on the production environment on the 1st of the month and made discoverable for users to add to any project.

External Modules are not part of the REDCap software but instead are add-on packages. Be aware that the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the module as it is used in your REDCap project is borne by you. If you experience any issues with a module, contact the RTO by submitting a request here.