Bika LIMS 3.1.9 in the Open

Bika LIMS 3.1.9 was released last week, and the online demonstration installation upgraded. Open Source LIMS rules

Please join in testing and logging bug reports.	Wiki: Upgrade instructions and Installing Bika LIMS.
See How to get system issues attended to fast. Some minor upgrade issues were hot fixed already. Added Functionality Sampling Rounds and Templates. for regular sampling rounds in water quality management, say the monthly field trip along 15 sampling points on rivers and dams. Hygiene surveys. Transposed Worksheets, ARs in columns for print and capture scenarios System Dashboard 1, ARs and WorkSheets. To be upgraded with Batches and Analyses Bulk AR Create via spreadsheet import to Batches Smaller Sticker templates, QR-code integration COA templates. Auto-header, auto-footer and auto-pagination Pricing per Analysis Profile	From the email by release manager Jordi Puiggené to the user list: We are proud to announce that Bika OS LIMS 3.1.9* was launched yesterday, Thursday 8 Oct 2015!* Although GSoC functionalities haven't been included in this release, more than 50 tickets have been closed! This release debuts with lots of new functionalities and improvements, but we'd like to highlight that almost thirty bugs have been fixed too, so it is going to be a very stable version! Feedback and support If you have questions, please post to one of our mailing lists: Bika Users, Bika LIMS design and Bika Developers, or IRC irc://freenode.net/#bika Please log issues, feature requests, or bugs in the Issue Tracker. And remember you can also enable your Bika LIMS instance to report bugs to us automatically. We'll take care of them! Thank you lemoene, Jordi, Campbell, Pau, Alex, Jayadeep, Aman, Chandan, Abhiram, Leo all other code contributors, testers, feature requesters and providers of the enthusiasm that keeps everybody fired up. Sponsorship was provided by Equigerminal, Metron, BBK, DEOHS University of Washington, Lab San Martin, and of course individual Naralabs and Bika Lab Systems team members who continue to contribute massively on their own accounts.
New Instrument Interfaces LIMS-1817: Instrument Interface. Rigaku Supermini XRF LIMS-1818: Instrument Interface. Eltra CS-2000 Improvements New System Dashboard for LabManagers and Admins LIMS-1312: Transposed Worksheet view, ARs in columns LIMS-1543: Add "Security Seal Intact Y/N" checkbox for partition container LIMS-1544: Add "File attachment" field on Sample Point LIMS-1545: Add "Composite Y/N" checkbox on AR Template LIMS-1546: Sampling Round Template Creation and Edit view LIMS-1547: AR Templates tab inside Sampling Round Template LIMS-1548: Client-specific Sampling Round Templates LIMS-1549: Sampling Round Templates privileges and permissions LIMS-1558: Creating Sampling Rounds LIMS-1561: Editing a Sampling Round LIMS-1564: Cancelling a Sampling Round LIMS-1627: Pricing per Analysis Profile LIMS-1695: Invoice export function missing LIMS-1743: Reports: ISO (A4) or ANSI (letter) pdf report size LIMS-1760: Customised AR Import spreadsheets (refactored, support importing to Batch) LIMS-1855: Small Sticker layout. QR-code capabilities LIMS-1867: Auto-header, auto-footer and auto-pagination in results reports LIMS-1934: Hyperlinks in invoices LIMS-1943: Stickers preview and custom stickers templates support LIMS-1949: Enviromental conditions LIMS-2020: Add Sampling Round - Department not available for selection	Fixes HEALTH-175: Supplier does not resolve on Instrument view page HEALTH-279: AS IDs to be near top of page. Columns in AS list LIMS-1397: Fix Client Title accessor to prevent catalog error when data is imported LIMS-1523: Site Error when transitioning AR from 'Manage Analyses' or 'Log' tab LIMS-1625: Instrument tab titles and headers do not correspond LIMS-1806: Instrument Interface. AQ2. Seal Analytical - Error LIMS-1811: Refactor AR Add form Javascript, and related code. LIMS-1812: Use asynchronous requests for expanding categories in listings LIMS-1869: Not possible to create an Analysis Request LIMS-1875: Able to deactivate instruments and reference samples without logging in LIMS-1887: uniquefield validator doesn't work properly LIMS-1908: Navigation tree order LIMS-1922: Instrument out of date typo and improvement LIMS-1924: Instrument tab very miss-titled. Internal Calibration Tests LIMS-1930: AssertionError: Having an orphan size, higher than batch size is undefined LIMS-1944: Prevent concurrent form submissions from clobbering each other's results LIMS-1956: Error upgrading to 319 LIMS-1959: Not possible to create an AR LIMS-1965: Modified default navtree order for new installations LIMS-1969: AR Add error when "Categorise analysis services" is disabled LIMS-1970: Analyses with AR Specifications not displayed properly in AR Add form LIMS-1987: AR Invoice tab should not be shown if pricing is toggled off LIMS-1996: On new system with no instrument data is difficult to get going. LIMS-1996: On new system with no instrument data it is difficult to get going. The warnings could be confusing LIMS-2002: Error creating Analysis Requests from batch. LIMS-2005: Click on Validations tab of Instruments it give error LIMS-2041: Resolve ${analysis_keyword) in instrument import alert LIMS-2049: Displaying lists doesn't work as expected in 319 LIMS-2049: Displaying lists doesn't work as expected in 319 LIMS-2068: Urgent. Analysis Catgories don't expand

Please join in testing and logging bug reports.

Wiki: Upgrade instructions and Installing Bika LIMS.

See How to get system issues attended to fast. Some minor upgrade issues were hot fixed already.

Added Functionality

Sampling Rounds and Templates. for regular sampling rounds in water quality management, say the monthly field trip along 15 sampling points on rivers and dams. Hygiene surveys.
Transposed Worksheets, ARs in columns for print and capture scenarios
System Dashboard 1, ARs and WorkSheets. To be upgraded with Batches and Analyses
Bulk AR Create via spreadsheet import to Batches

Smaller

Sticker templates, QR-code integration
COA templates. Auto-header, auto-footer and auto-pagination

Pricing per Analysis Profile

From the email by release manager Jordi Puiggené to the user list:

We are proud to announce that Bika OS LIMS 3.1.9 was launched yesterday, Thursday 8 Oct 2015!

Although GSoC functionalities haven't been included in this release, more than 50 tickets have been closed! This release debuts with lots of new functionalities and improvements, but we'd like to highlight that almost thirty bugs have been fixed too, so it is going to be a very stable version!

Feedback and support

If you have questions, please post to one of our mailing lists: Bika Users, Bika LIMS design and Bika Developers, or IRC irc://freenode.net/#bika

Please log issues, feature requests, or bugs in the Issue Tracker. And remember you can also enable your Bika LIMS instance to report bugs to us automatically. We'll take care of them!

Thank you

lemoene, Jordi, Campbell, Pau, Alex, Jayadeep, Aman, Chandan, Abhiram, Leo all other code contributors, testers, feature requesters and providers of the enthusiasm that keeps everybody fired up.

Sponsorship was provided by Equigerminal, Metron, BBK, DEOHS University of Washington, Lab San Martin, and of course individual Naralabs and Bika Lab Systems team members who continue to contribute massively on their own accounts.

New Instrument Interfaces

LIMS-1817: Instrument Interface. Rigaku Supermini XRF
LIMS-1818: Instrument Interface. Eltra CS-2000

Improvements

New System Dashboard for LabManagers and Admins
LIMS-1312: Transposed Worksheet view, ARs in columns
LIMS-1543: Add "Security Seal Intact Y/N" checkbox for partition container
LIMS-1544: Add "File attachment" field on Sample Point
LIMS-1545: Add "Composite Y/N" checkbox on AR Template
LIMS-1546: Sampling Round Template Creation and Edit view
LIMS-1547: AR Templates tab inside Sampling Round Template
LIMS-1548: Client-specific Sampling Round Templates
LIMS-1549: Sampling Round Templates privileges and permissions
LIMS-1558: Creating Sampling Rounds
LIMS-1561: Editing a Sampling Round
LIMS-1564: Cancelling a Sampling Round
LIMS-1627: Pricing per Analysis Profile
LIMS-1695: Invoice export function missing
LIMS-1743: Reports: ISO (A4) or ANSI (letter) pdf report size
LIMS-1760: Customised AR Import spreadsheets (refactored, support importing to Batch)
LIMS-1855: Small Sticker layout. QR-code capabilities
LIMS-1867: Auto-header, auto-footer and auto-pagination in results reports
LIMS-1934: Hyperlinks in invoices
LIMS-1943: Stickers preview and custom stickers templates support
LIMS-1949: Enviromental conditions
LIMS-2020: Add Sampling Round - Department not available for selection

Fixes

HEALTH-175: Supplier does not resolve on Instrument view page
HEALTH-279: AS IDs to be near top of page. Columns in AS list
LIMS-1397: Fix Client Title accessor to prevent catalog error when data is imported
LIMS-1523: Site Error when transitioning AR from 'Manage Analyses' or 'Log' tab
LIMS-1625: Instrument tab titles and headers do not correspond
LIMS-1806: Instrument Interface. AQ2. Seal Analytical - Error
LIMS-1811: Refactor AR Add form Javascript, and related code.
LIMS-1812: Use asynchronous requests for expanding categories in listings
LIMS-1869: Not possible to create an Analysis Request
LIMS-1875: Able to deactivate instruments and reference samples without logging in
LIMS-1887: uniquefield validator doesn't work properly
LIMS-1908: Navigation tree order
LIMS-1922: Instrument out of date typo and improvement
LIMS-1924: Instrument tab very miss-titled. Internal Calibration Tests
LIMS-1930: AssertionError: Having an orphan size, higher than batch size is undefined
LIMS-1944: Prevent concurrent form submissions from clobbering each other's results
LIMS-1956: Error upgrading to 319
LIMS-1959: Not possible to create an AR
LIMS-1965: Modified default navtree order for new installations
LIMS-1969: AR Add error when "Categorise analysis services" is disabled
LIMS-1970: Analyses with AR Specifications not displayed properly in AR Add form
LIMS-1987: AR Invoice tab should not be shown if pricing is toggled off
LIMS-1996: On new system with no instrument data is difficult to get going.
LIMS-1996: On new system with no instrument data it is difficult to get going. The warnings could be confusing
LIMS-2002: Error creating Analysis Requests from batch.
LIMS-2005: Click on Validations tab of Instruments it give error
LIMS-2041: Resolve ${analysis_keyword) in instrument import alert
LIMS-2049: Displaying lists doesn't work as expected in 319
LIMS-2049: Displaying lists doesn't work as expected in 319
LIMS-2068: Urgent. Analysis Catgories don't expand