# About the eCOA-Clinical Operations Connection With the eCOA-Clinical Operations Connection, organizations with both an eCOA Vault and Clinical Operations Vault can exchange data and documents in near-real time. The eCOA-Clinical Operations Connection exchanges the following data. Data created and updated in the Clinical Operations Vault and sent to the eCOA Vault: * _Studies_ * _Study Countries_ * _Study Sites_ Documents created and updated as CrossLinks from the eCOA source Vault to Clinical Operations target Vault: * Study Design Specification * _End-of-Study Participant_ Reports (_Final Subject Data_ in Clinical Operations) To use the eCOA-Clinical Operations Connection, an Admin must complete configuration steps and activate the connection. ## How the eCOA-Clinical Operations Connection Works For Studies in Clinical Operations with the _Connect to Vault eCOA_ field set to **Yes**, Vault creates new records or updates existing records in the following scenarios: * When a user creates or edits a _Study_ record, Vault creates or updates the _Study_ record in the eCOA Vault. * When a user creates or edits a _Study Country_ record in the Clinical Operations Vault, Vault creates or updates the _Study Country_ record in the eCOA Vault. * When a user creates or edits a _Study Site_ record in the Clinical Operations Vault, Vault creates or updates the _Study Site_ record in the eCOA Vault. * When the system generates a _Study Design Specification_ in the eCOA Vault, Vault creates or updates a CrossLink in the Clinical Operations Vault. * When the system generates an _End-of-Study Participant Report_ in the eCOA Vault, Vault creates or updates a CrossLink in the Clinical Operations Vault. ### About Record Creation & Update When creating a record through the connection, Vault also populates the _Link_ (`link__sys`) field on the target record with the source record's _Global ID_ (`global_id__sys`). These fields let Vault know which records to update in the target Vault when you update data in the source Vault. The following fields are transferred: * _Study_ object * _Study Number_ as _Study Number_ * _Lifecycle State_ as _Clinical Operations Study Status_ * _Study Country_ object * _Study Number_ as _Study Number_ * _Country_ as _Country_ * _Study Country Name_ as _Study Country Name_ * _Study Site object_ * _Study Country_ as _Study Country_ * _Study Site Number_ as _Study Site Number_ * _Site Name_ as _Site Name_ * _Site Timezone_ as _Site Timezone_ * _Lifecycle State_ as _Clinical Operations Site Status_ * _eCOA End-of-Study Participant Report_ documents * _Name_ as _Document Name_  * _Title_ as _Document Title_ * _Study_ as _Study_ * _Study Country_ as _Study Country_ * _Study Site_ as _Study Site_ * _Content_ as _Content_ * _Global ID_ as _Source Link_ * _Major Version_ as _Major Version_ * _Minor Version_ as _Minor Version_ * _eCOA Study Design Specification_ documents * _Name_ as _Document Name_ * _Title_ as _Document Title_ * _Study_ as _Study_ * _Content_ as _Content_ * _Global ID_ as _Source Link_ * _Major Version_ as _Major Version_ * _Minor Version as Minor Version_