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9 Product/Analysis Specifications: Setting up valid ranges for Analysis results per Sample Type or Product. Any result outside of the range specified, raises alerts
13 Worksheets: A number of similar analyses - on different samples but logically belonging together, such as intended for the same lab workstation, instrument of specific analyst - can be grouped into a single unit of work on a Worksheet. Sometimes called a Job Card. Here, all their results can be captured and reviewed together, in context of peers and associated QC results on the same page
13.1 Creating Worksheets: A number of analyses, on different samples but logically belonging together - such as intended for the same lab workstation, instrument of specific analyst - can be grouped into a single unit of work on a Worksheet. All results are reviewed together, in context of QC results associated on the same sheet
13.1.1 Creating Worksheets from Sample Lists: There is an easy way to create new Worksheets directly from Sample Lists, per Client and Batch
Create Worksheets from Sample lists: Select Samples and their Analysis Categories to select Analyses for a new Worksheet
11.3 Receiving and Labeling Samples
11 Workflow: How the basic transactional objects, Analyses and Sampless, proceed through the system, triggering actions and influencing parent objects. Much more efficiency is eventually achieved using Batches and Worksheet. More later
1.4.1 Replace the LIMS logo, banner, title and favicon: How to customise the LIMS' look and feel in Bika and Senaite. Replace the LIMS logo, modify the LIMS toolbar colours to suit, replace the favicon and edit the Site Title. Install bika.ui
Import Subcontracted results
6.5 Sample attributes: Bika / Senaite LIMS provides a host of Sample and Analysis attributes not used by all labs, even in the same discipline. Select the ones your lab requires, and order them top to bottom on the Sample registration form
1.1.5 Workflow in four steps: Four step overview
11.2 Sampling. Preservation: Where labs use their own Samplers and need to record information about the Sampling process and capture Field Analysis results, the Sampling workflow can be activated in the set-up to enforce this step