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  • Tutorials
    • Bulk Sample Import
    • Generic Instrument Results Importer
    • Building and Using Analysis Profiles and Sample Templates
    • Using Control Charts for Temperature Monitoring
    • Document Management & Version Control in Bika LIMS
      • Full ISO 17025 Folder Schema
    • How to Create and Use Worksheet Templates in Bika LIMS
    • Managing Reference Materials and Control Charts in Bika
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  • The Hybrid approach
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• Manual
  • 1. Introduction. Web portal
    • Page layout
    • ERD
    • Replace the LIMS logo
    • LIMS browser Title and favicon
    • Display preferences
    • User preferences and passwords
    • Customise the LIMS front page
  • 2. Users and Groups. Security
    • User Groups
      • Authorisation matrix
    • Authorisation matrix
    • Creating Users
    • Lab Contacts as users in the UI
  • 3. Clients and Contacts
    • Client Organisations
    • Client Contacts and User privileges
    • Client Users and Bika LIMS
      • Access
      • Requesting Analysis. Sample Registration
    • Removing Clients
    • Divisions
  • 5. Samples and Sampling
    • Sample Point Locations
    • Sampling
    • Sample Attributes
  • 4. Configuration
    • Three Setup pages, one per layer
    • Setup Convention
    • Order of Configuration
    • Email Settings
    • Global Settings. System Defaults
      • The Analyses Tab
      • The Sampling Tab
      • ID Server
    • ID Server
    • Analytical Methods
    • Migrating the LIMS Configuration
    • Configure Bika using spreadsheet imports
      • Open Online Template
      • Completing the Bika configuration sheets
      • Importing the setup sheets
      • Post import Configuration
      • Upload a test configuration
    • Results Interpretation Templates
    • The Lab and its Contacts
    • Suppliers
  • 6 Instruments
    • Instrument Configuration
    • Instrument Maintenance
    • Instrument QC
    • How To bring an instrument back on line after failing QC
    • Corrective Action
  • 7. Analysis Services
    • Global Analysis Services Setup
    • Results Options
    • Description, Analysis Tabs
    • Time Series Analyses
      • Using Time Series Analyses
      • Setting up the Time Series Importer
    • AS Methods
    • Advanced
    • Measure of Uncertainty. Limits
  • 8. Calculations
    • Using Calculations
  • 9. Analysis Profiles and Templates
    • Sample Registration Templates
  • 10. Product Specifications
    • Specifications in Action
  • 11. QC
    • Reference Definitions
    • Audit trails
    • QC Failure Workflow
    • Creating Reference Samples
      • Reference Sample Expiry
    • Capturing QC results
    • Control Charts
    • Reference Sample Expiry Alerts
  • 12. Workflow
    • Workflow in four steps
    • Sample Registration
    • Sampling. Preservation
    • Receiving and Labelling Samples
      • Configuring Sticker images
    • Sample Rejection
    • Sample Preparation
    • Results Capture
      • Results Capture extras
      • More ways to capture results manually
    • Verifying Results
    • Results publication. COA
      • Multi Sample COA differentiation
      • The COAs of the bika.coa add-on
    • Invalidating erroneously published Results
    • Secondary Testing of Samples
    • Sample Prioritisation
    • Workflow States summary
    • Import Subcontracted results
    • Images
    • Sample Disposal
  • 13. Batching
    • Batch Sample Import
      • Preparing the CSV
    • Batch Sub-groups. Book view
    • Creating a Sample Batch
  • 14. Worksheets
    • Creating Worksheets
    • Creating Worksheet Templates
    • Worksheets from Templates
    • Creating Worksheets from Sample Lists
    • Export Worksheets to Instruments
    • Results Capture
    • Results Spreadsheet Imports
    • Instrument Results Import
    • Results Verification. Retesting
    • Add QC Controls
  • 15. Management Reports
    • Results per Sample Point Report and Graph
  • 16. Partitioning Samples. Aliquots
  • 17. Sample Storage
    • Storage Facilities
    • Storing Samples
    • Retrieving Samples
  • 18. Billing. Invoices
    • Prepaid testing. Invoicing Use Case
    • Invoice Content
  • 19. Background Processing
    • Configuring Queue management
    • Using Asynchronous Processing
  • TOC
  • 21. Some Technical matters
    • Seeding Bika IDs
    • ID server recommendations
    • Changing the admin password
    • Installing Add-on Products
    • Upgrading Add-on Products
    • Removing or Adding Analyses from Samples
    • Production Server Stack
    • Undo
  • 22. Using the Bika Issue Tracker
    • Log an issue
    • Sign up to the Bika Open Source LIMS Tracker
    • Configure the Create Screen
  • Disclaimer
  • 20. Document Management System
    • User roles and Permissions
    • Document Workflow
    • Document Versioning
    • Images
  • 23. Error Messages. Alerts. Logs
    • Instrument messages
    • Specifications changed
  • Bika Concrete
    • Mixes
      • Importing the .XLSM
      • Mix tab on Batches
  • Bika Health
    • Patient Module Configuration
    • Patient registration
    • Antibiotics
    • Microorganisms
    • AST
    • Panic Level Alerts
    • Diseases, Signs and Symptoms
    • Sample Registration
    • Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST)
      • AST Panels
      • Breakpoint Tables
  • Bika Cannabis
    • Metrc Interface
      • Importing Metrc Sample information
      • Uploading results and COAs to Metrc
  • Bika Wine
• FAQ
  • Is Bika LIMS really free?
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  • About Support
  • Like all LIMS, the Bika UIX sucks
  • How does Senaite LIMS relate to Bika?
• News
  • Bika LIMS 4.1 Released. Time Series and Enhanced Client Communication
  • Bika LIMS rejoins the Free Software Foundation but loses iconic membership number 11111
  • Still ignoring Open Source LIMS? Here’s why that’s a mistake
  • Management Reports return in Bika 4
  • Concrete. New Bika LIMS Branch
  • Bika LIMS implemented at South African Chrome mine and processing plant
  • Bika fork Baobab LIMS is dormant
  • The Leopard in Your Lab: Ingwe Bika LIMS 4
  • Honestly, why should Open Source LIMS be better?
  • Do not throw away your water just because you heard it will be raining
  • AI history dilemma for Bika LIMS
  • Bika LIMS User Manual re-released on Plone 6 and Volto
  • Ingwe Bika LIMS 4.2 released with new features
  • Announcing Bika LIMS Tutorials
• About
• Blog
  • Blog history. Same same but different
  • The Meaning Behind Ingwe Bika LIMS: Inkosi, Gaob & the Leopard
  • Why it should be *Professional* Open Source
  • How Bika implements an Open-Source LIMS: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
  • A Realistic Timeline and Cost Breakdown for Implementing Bika LIMS
  • Bika Open Source LIMS Tutorials – Now Live