Online Help Features and Future Plans

Features

Version 11.3 Release Notes

• The NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary component has been updated to version 11.3.
• Help for standardized edits has been added in the components Edits Help for NAACCR V11_3 Metafile and Edits Help for NAACCR V11_3A Metafile.
• The Commission on Cancer FORDS component has been updated with changes effective for 2009, posted through September 2008.
• The document Recording Tumor Markers in Collaborative Staging System Site-Specific Factors has been deleted.
• Some manuals of historical interest only have been deleted:
• Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Documents for Historical Reference*
• Historical Staging and Coding Manuals

Historical Features

• Online Help can be used with any Microsoft^® Windows^® application, not just with Registry Plus programs.
• Online Help is produced by CDC from electronic versions of manuals from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons, and the World Health Organization.
• The manuals are reformatted for online viewing.
• Online Help has been incorporated into software products of several other vendors, including CNExt, Rocky Mountain Cancer Data System, and IMPAC. The Abstract Plus version includes the Registry Plus Abstract Plus User's Guide.
• Online Help is updated annually with the latest published version of the included manuals, plus published errata or additions.
• An "About" topic included with each manual cites the versions of files and updates that are included in the Online Help edition.

Future Plans

The Registry Plus Online Help Development Priority List is a list of development tasks prioritized by the NPCR Registry Plus development team. Each task is the direct result of meetings with the Registry Plus User Group (RPUG) as well as requests from individual cancer registries and leaders in the cancer registry field. For more information on Registry Plus or RPUG please contact cancerinfo@cdc.gov.

Completed Tasks
Updated NAACCR Data Dictionary to version 11.3.
Added help for NAACCR Edits Metafiles 11.3 and 11.3A.
Updated FORDS with changes through September 2008, effective for 2009.
Remaining Task	Priority	Percentage Completed
Migrate benign brain tumor training materials	1	90%
Enhance and harmonize index and hyperlinks	2	0%
Investigate Web help tools for increased functionality	3	10%
Technical writer review	4	0%

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