SD0077 error: Invalid referenced record for SUPPQS domain in PVAL 2.2.0

r rakesh

on November 27, 2018

I am getting an error "Invalid referenced record" for SUPPQS domain. However all SUPPQS observation have valid reference record in QS domain. The explanation for SD0077 states-

"Reference record defined by Related Domain Abbreviation (RDOMAIN), Unique Subject Identifier (USUBJID), Identifying Variable (IDVAR) and Identifying Variable Value (IDVARVAL) must exist in the target Domain."

Additional Info: IDVAR is not QSSEQ, but it is "QSGRPID". Does this have any effect for the above issue?.

I rechecked and confirmed that for every subject , that valid a reference record in QS.

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s Sergiy

on November 27, 2018

SD0077 rule handles any variable either QSSEQ or QSGRPID

Hi Rakesh,

SD0077 rule handles any variable either QSSEQ or QSGRPID.

One potential source of issue may be leading or trailing invisible characters in IDVAR, IDVARVAL or QSGRPID variable.

We need to see sample data to diagnose your case.

Kind Regards,

Sergiy

j Jozef

on November 28, 2018

SD0077 error: Invalid referenced record for SUPPQS

Trailing blanks are mostly inevitable in IDVARVAL and QSGRPID as it cannot be expected that all values for QSGRPID have the same length (e.g. GRP1, GRP10, GRP101). There is no rule that these all need to have the same length.
In order to find out whether there are any other "non-visible" characters (whatever that is), you could transform to Dataset-XML format or to CSV and then inspect the records using a Dataset-XML viewer, or for CSV, using NotePad++. When using the (free) "Dataset-XML viewer" you can also use the functionality to quicky switch/toggle between parent and suppqual record in order to see whether the problem also occurs there. If the same problem reproduces there, you indeed have a problem with the data, but at least you will be able to see what the problem is.
It can however also be something else of course.

s Sergiy

on November 28, 2018