Luke Stevens, Murdoch Children's Research Institute https://www.mcri.edu.au

When creating or requesting a new project in REDCap, users are presented with three choices:

• 0 Create an empty project (blank slate)
• 2 Upload a REDCap project XML file (CDISC ODM format)?
• 1 Use a template (choose one below)

This External Module hides the "Create an empty project (blank slate)" option,
forcing the user to use a template (or upload an ODM XML).

Setting up templates enables REDCap administrators to define suitable default user roles, e.g. for the "Project Owner", "Data Entry", "Investigator", "Data User" etc. This illustrates the User Roles functionality and encourages users to make use of it rather than managing their project users' permissions individually.

The module system-level configuration enables the administrator to specify the name of a user role (the default is "Project Owner") to which the user that creates or requests the project will be automatically assigned once a project has been created from a template.