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Typical Applications of Bika Calendar

Note: This is the print view with all the Reference Manual pages on one page. The paginated version is available here, if you prefer that.

This is a user manual for Bika Calendar. It can be used with Bika LIMS 2 for the calculation of late analyses and efficiency reports but is available as stand-alone product for integration in other Plone applications

14. Typical Applications of Bika Calendar

Example of applications of Bika Calendar, as used for Bika LIMS 2.0 late analysis alerts and efficiency reports

14.1. Late analysis alerts

In Bika's LIMS, lab managers assign a maximum period of time allowed for every analysis service. When any analysis spends longer than that in the lab, an alert is raised and displayed to all staff

When samples are received, the due date and time for each analysis requested for it is calculated using the maximum time set-up for it and the true working hours available from the Bika Calendar

When the due date is passed and the analysis result has not been published yet, it is listed at top right on all screens in a 'late analysis' portlet with very visual header


Late analysis alert


Clicking on an individual analysis will take the user to its analysis request where it can be investigated further or the client details be obtained from. A full report of all late analyses - the right hand column on this page also indicates how late the analyses are


Late analysis page


14.2. TAT report. Turn around times

In Bika's LIMS, the calendar is also use to accurately report turnaround times

Both late and early analyses are reported and lab managers may use the report to  establish where bottlenecks are developing in the sample flow through the laboratory

The report can be run for any given time period and all or specific clients. An example:

TAT report

 

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