# SiteVault and Site Connect

Source: https://sites.veevavault.help/gr/sitevault/getting-started/site-connect/

## Overview

Site Connect is an extension of Veeva’s Clinical Vault and provides sites with a standard and site-centric user interface for collaboration with sponsors and CROs. Site Connect is a simple, consistent mechanism to exchange study information during startup, execution, and closeout. **Site staff are invited to use Site Connect by their trial sponsor or CRO.**

SiteVault users can connect a SiteVault study to the same study in Site Connect. This connection provides many tools, including the ability to upload documents to the sponsor or CRO, file documents from the sponsor/CRO directly to SiteVault from within Site Connect, complete document and safety letter review tasks, and more.

For more information on Site Connect, see [Site Connect Help](/gr/siteconnect/).

## Connecting Site Connect to SiteVault

Site Connect allows you to connect a study to your SiteVault for seamless exchanging and filing of study documents to your eISF.

- You must be a site user with access to a valid [Universal Site Number](/gr/sitevault/getting-started/usn/) (USN).
- To connect, the study must already exist in SiteVault.

[![Connect Site Connect Study to SiteVault](/gr/uploads/siteconnect/images/help/sc-usn-connect-to-sv.png) ](/gr/uploads/siteconnect/images/help/sc-usn-connect-to-sv.png)

To connect a study in Site Connect to a study in SiteVault:

1. Navigate to **Site Connect \> Site Home**.
2. Click the **Connect to SiteVault** button in the top-right corner.
3. Enter your USN in the **Connect to SiteVault** dialog.
4. Click **Continue**.
5. Select the appropriate matching Study within your SiteVault. If the Study does not already exist in your SiteVault, create it within SiteVault. Then, click **Connect to SiteVault**.
6. Click **Continue**.

Site Connect is now connected to your SiteVault and you can begin exchanging study documents. You will encounter an error in the following scenarios:

- Study is not created in SiteVault for the entered USN.
- You are not a SiteVault site user associated with the entered USN.
- You are not a SiteVault site user with appropriate permissions. 
  - SiteVault Site Admins can connect to all studies.
  - SiteVault Staff can connect to studies on which they are assigned and the assignment is Active.

Please contact [Site Support](/gr/sitevault/getting-started/support/) should you encounter an error.

Note Clicking **Connect to SiteVault** applies to individual studies and does not connect every study in Site Connect to your SiteVault.

## Restricted Permissions in Site Connect and SiteVault

Site Connect and SiteVault permissions are managed by different systems and administrators; a user’s access to restricted documents in one system does not guarantee the same access is assigned in the other. See the table below for the expected behavior based on different permission combinations.

| Restricted Permissions | Site Connect Behavior | SiteVault Behavior |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **No Restricted Access** | 
- Cannot view restricted documents.
- Cannot upload restricted documents _from computer_.
- Cannot upload restricted documents _from SiteVault_.

 | 
- Cannot view restricted documents.
- Cannot file restricted documents received in Site Connect to SiteVault and view them once filed.

 |
| **Restricted Access in Both** | 
- Can view restricted documents.
- Can upload restricted documents _from computer_ and view them.
- Can upload restricted documents _from SiteVault_ into Site Connect and view them once uploaded.

 | 
- Can view restricted documents.
- Can file restricted documents received in Site Connect to SiteVault and view them once filed.

 |
| 

**Restricted Access in Site Connect**

**No Restricted Access in SiteVault**

 | 
- Can view restricted documents.
- Can upload restricted documents _from computer_ and view them once uploaded.
- Cannot upload restricted documents _from SiteVault._

 | 
- Cannot view restricted documents.
- Can file restricted documents received in Site Connect to SiteVault, but cannot view them once filed.

 |
| 

**No Restricted Access in Site Connect**

**Restricted Access in SiteVault**

 | 
- Cannot view restricted documents.
- Cannot upload restricted documents _from computer_.
- Can upload restricted documents _from SiteVault_ but cannot view them once uploaded.

 | 
- Can view restricted documents
- Cannot file restricted documents received in Site Connect to SiteVault and view them once filed.

 |