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4.9 Setup migration: If an existing LIMS' configuration is needed on another server, e.g. migrating from a Test server to Production, the LIMS configuration can be exported and then imported on a similar LIMS version on another server
Configure Bika Senaite using spreadsheet imports: Configure new Bika and Senaite installations from setup data tabled in spreadsheets
1.6.2 ERD: Bika Senaite uses the Zope Object Database, ZODB. In entities and relations, it looks like this
4. Configuration: Setting up your LIMS. Only users with lab manager authorisation have access to the LIMS configuration. Users won't have to come here regularly, most of the configuration is completed during initial implementation.
4.3 Global settings. System defaults: Before diving deeper, and ignoring trivial setup items, the main workflow items and global defaults
4.1 Configuration Convention: All the Setup pages are the same, if not in complexity
Client Users and Bika LIMS: Benefit from web based LIMS by registering your samples remotely and speed up sample acquisition. Track Sample and their results. Manage your own Contacts. Sample Points, Analysis Templates and Specifications
3 Clients and Contacts: Bika is entirely web based and Clients may track the progress of their Samples online, access and search their results and COAs or run reports on it
3.1 Client Organisations: Bika Senaite differentiates between Client organisations and their people, Client Contacts. The LIMS communicates with the Contacts only. They request Analyses and receive results, browse and report on their data online, via their trusted browsers. They may also configure their own information such as Sample points, and Profiles
3.3 Removing Clients: Deactivating Clients and Contacts
3.2 Client Contacts and User privileges: Adding and editing Client Contacts and their publication preferences. Client organisations may have multiple contacts requesting analyses and receiving results, not all have to be active LIMS users
3.2 Managing Clients: Creating and editing default Client information and preferences. After initial registration they may maintain this data themselves
2 Users and Groups. Security: Secure access per authorisation role
2.4 Lab Contacts as users in the UI: How to manage lab users in Bika and Senaite through the LIMS Setup UI
2.3 Creating Users: How to manage lab and client users in Bika and Senaite

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