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Institution Branding

Design compliance-ready interfaces by embedding your official institutional identity and logos across all participant-facing portals.

What is the Branding Suite?

The Institution Branding module allows research coordinators to standardize the visual presentation of their clinical trials. By injecting your hospital or university's official name and logo into the Assessment Station, you reinforce clinical authority, elevate user trust, and satisfy standard Institutional Review Board (IRB) visibility requirements.

Enterprise Feature Lock

The Central Branding Suite is restricted to Institutional Administrator accounts or users with an active Premium expansion pack. Free-tier personal accounts cannot establish a central branding profile.

Zero-Footprint Compression

Heavy image uploads are automatically intercepted by our HTML5 Canvas Compressor. Logos are mathematically down-sampled to under 10 KB before transmission to preserve lightning-fast mobile loading times.

Cryptographic Save Guard

Changing an institution's visual identity requires a strict re-authentication checkpoint. Your account password must be re-entered to commit branding changes to the database.

Core Setup Part 1: Configuring Your Identity

Establishing your central brand profile only takes a few seconds and will automatically apply to any new deployments that have the "Custom Branding" module toggled on.

  1. Institution Name: Provide the official, regulatory title of your hospital, clinic, or university (e.g., "Sarawak General Hospital"). This will appear prominently at the top of all connected assessments.
  2. Contact / Extra Information: Provide any required contact details, primary investigator notes, or support emails for participants.
  3. Institution Logo: Choose an existing preset icon (Cross, Shield, Document), or click the upload box to provide your own transparent PNG or white-background JPEG.
  4. Commit Changes: Scroll down to the Security Verification Checkpoint, enter your account login password, and click "Update Branding Profile" to save.
Manual Fallbacks in the Builder

If you choose not to establish a Central Branding Profile here, you can still apply temporary, one-off text and image URLs manually inside the Deployment Combiner on a per-trial basis using the "Temporary Brand Override" fields.

Advanced Logic Part 2: Security & Storage Optimization

Understand the security checkpoints and storage sanitation protocols running behind the scenes.

The Password Checkpoint

Because the institutional brand is participant-facing and establishes clinical trust, unauthorized tampering is a severe compliance risk. When you click save, the system executes a reauthenticateWithCredential payload.

If you step away from your computer and someone attempts to maliciously change your hospital's name to something else, the platform will completely reject the transaction unless they can provide your current login password.

Orphaned File Sweeping

To respect your digital storage quotas, the platform only permits one active logo allocation per workspace at a time.

  • Capacity Limits: If you attempt to upload a second logo, the system will block it. You must click the "X" on your current active logo to free up the memory allocation slot.
  • Sanitation Protocols: When you replace an uploaded logo with a new one (or switch to a preset), the platform doesn't just overwrite the database entry. It automatically queries your private Firebase Storage bucket and permanently destroys the old, orphaned image file to keep your infrastructure clean.