Submit the issue on-line

It is important that you get enough  information to the help desk to help them resolve the issue. More information can be conveyed in writing and technicians get more done if they stay off the phone

Submit by e-mail, or in an on-line issue tracker if you are using one

One issue per tracker item

To make it easier to manage issues to resolution, please submit only one issue per tracker item

Meaningful subject line

Please give issues meaningful titles to make it easier to find them on list displays, email folders and using search functions on-line

Answer these questions

1. What did you try to do? Where in the system were you and what action caused the error

NB. Please copy the web address from the browser and include in the issue

2. What user authorisation did you use? E.g. lab clerk, analyst or lab manager?

3. What did you expect to happen?

4. What happened?

5. Any error messages? If the system produced an error message, please try to copy the text and past it into your email or tracker submission. Attach screen shots if necessary

6. What time did it happen? This will help the technician when reading the system logs

Maintain the issue resolution work-flow

Bika currently uses a tracker at Github, please see https://github.com/bikalabs/Bika-LIMS/issues

1. When a user posts an item to the tracker, it is created with status 'open' in the tracker
2. Once addressed, the developer working on it will re-assign the issue to the submitter and change its status to 'closed', and label it as 'pending'
   
3. This is the submitter's signal, per email, to re-test the issue. If it persists, comment and re-assign it with status 'open' to the developer, leaving the pending label intact
   
4. If resolved, please change it status to 'closed', watch it disappear from the 'open' list and experience a few moments of feel good