1. LIMS Portal

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  Table of Contents...                  

1.1 Web based

Passwords and Preferences

 1.1.1 First things first

Page layout

1.1.2 The page areas often referenced on the manual pages

Browser Convention

1.1.3 Compulsory fields, use tabs

Folder structure

1.1.4 Like Windows, Clients -> Client Acme -> Samples, Sample Points, Contacts

System Dashboard

1.1.6 Overview of current and past workload

1.2 User Interface

Display preferences

1.2.1 Optimise table displays 

Lists

1.2.2 Sort tabular data per column header click

Icons

1.2.3 Helpful in describing Bika objects

Search

1.2.4 Live Google like search

Barcodes

1.2.5 Labels and scanning

Workflow in four steps

Before you get into the LIMS proper, short workflow summary: Analyses are Requested, Samples Received, Analysed, put through QC and Results Reported

1.3 Language Preferences

Bika and Senaite can be browsed concurrently in multiple languages, set individually  in the user's browser preferences

1.4 Brand your LIMS 

Configure your Bika/Senaite installation as web portal to clients and prospects with document management inherited from powerful content management platform Plone. Easy browser based editing of training material, SOPs, promotions, news and events

Portal banner, logo. Favicon

1.4.1 How to upload yor own

Front page

1.4.2 How to sex up your LIMS portal for prospects and anonymous visitors

Portlets

1.4.3 Add, edit and manage portlets for News and Events, Promotions etc. 

1.5 Export onscreen data

Near all tabled lists and transactional objects can be downloaded as CSV with the click of a button

1.6 Technical. Hardware. Server stack

LIMS Version

1.6.1 LIMS version. Which Bika / Senaite version are you using? Find out

ERD

1.6.2 Bika DB Entity Relation Diagrams

Undoing Transactions

1.6.3 Rolling back actions

Upgrading Add-on Products

1.6.4 Catching up with new releases

1.7 Laboratory Document Management System

More than just a LIMS

l use Analysis Request