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10.19. Worksheet Templates

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The Bika 'Worksheet Template Engine' is used to create templates from which similar worksheets can be created repeatedly without having to go through lengthy manual processes every time such a worksheet is required for a certain instrument or workstation. The templates include functionality to specify QC controls for the work sheets derived from it

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To delete an Worksheet Template, check the box next to it and click [delete]

Click on [add new worksheet template] to add a new stock, or click on an existing one to edit it, the Standard stock details screen will open:


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Complete the compulsory Title field and supply a Description if you want to


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If you are designing a worksheet template for a lab instrument with fixed number of sample positions, you may specify it in the Number of positions field. Press [reset] after entering a new number to adjust the number of positions in the table following immediately after:


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You may specify normal analyses, of the types selected at the bottom of the screen, or any of Blank, Control or Duplicate QC analyses in any of the positions on the worksheet from the drop down menu as shown above

Calibration samples will be added to these in the near future - these will be used to apply correction factors to the results in the worksheet

Once a Blank or Control sample has been selected for a position, which standard to be used can be selected from drop down menus in the 3rd column as shown below:


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The expected values for the Controls and Blanks will be used in the validation of results in the worksheets created with the template


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Where a Duplicate sample has been specified, a drop down is activated in the last column to specify which position's sample must be used. In the worksheet results for these 2 positions will be compared as further QC measure



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Finally which analyses to be performed on the samples in the positions marked Analysis, can be selected from the list of analyses at the bottom of the screen. More than one analysis may be selected for instruments which are capable of doing multiple analyses on the same sample

Click [Save] to save the worksheet template

 

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