Bika LIMS 2.0

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Release Notes

Release date

Targeted for 26 May 2008. First release version is 2.1 and includes a number of enhancements on the original 2.0 specification. See the 2.1 project page

New features and functionality

• Analysis Request (AR) profiles per sample type and client - regularly requested analysis sets are grouped in profiles for one click AR creation
  
• Worksheet (WS) templates - one click creation of standard worksheets per laboratory workstation, automating sample type and analyses selection, analyst, instrument and tray size, inclusion of calibration samples, standards, blanks and duplicates
• Sample custody workflow and disposal alerts
• Full Quality Control suite, including Standards and Standards Supplier maintenance, the use of blanks and duplicate samples, instrument calibrations and graphical reporting on trends, distribution curves, relative % error and inter-laboratory proficiency testing results
• AR and WS rejection and re-testing workflows
• Product specifications and out of range alerts applied per sample type and client. Clients maintain their own criteria
  
• Enhanced accounts interface including credit checks before accepting new requests for analyses
  
• Bulk Analysis Request creation and Results publication per comma delimited file. Logs of imports
• Granular audit trails. Of Samples, Analyses, Analysis requests, Worksheets, Orders, Invoices, Web content edits
• Digitally signed Prints as publication option
• True working hours calendar to take public holidays and non-working hours into consideration when calculating late analysis alerts
• A host of smaller improvements

'All/Recent' analysis listings

'All' option for mass completion of Analysis Request forms

CC'ing of results to third parties

Invoicing of third parties

Comma delimited query results exports

All displayed e-mail addresses live

• New reports and graphs
  

Turnaround times not met

QC trends

QC standard distribution

QC duplicates - relative percentage error

Graphing of existing reports

• Integrated Help centre including amongst others site specific FAQs, Manuals, Tutorials and Instruction movies to facilitate ongoing training, reference and revision. See Bika's Help Centre
• Full web Content Management (CMS). All lab related documentation prepared in private and published to the LIMS portal from a singular laboratory repository and application, the LIMS. All documents, hyper-linked for easy retrieval, SOPs, guides, standards, methods, safety regulation, news and events, promotions, time sheets and leave forms, instrument manuals, etc
• Migration to Plone 2.5

Feature enhancements in this release

The following features were added in this release:

#2: Plone 2.5. True time calendar. CSV Import/Export

First goals for Bika 2

#3: Worksheet 'Template Engine'

Bika 2 - Worksheet Template maintenance. Functional specification and use cases. Version 0.2 , lemoene, 24 January 2007

#4: Quality Control

Bika 2 QC. Standards, their Specifications and Suppliers, Duplicates (Checks), Blanks andCalibrations. Analysis Request and Worksheet flow. Reports and graphs, Trends, Distribution and % Error

#5: Bika LIMS 2.0 - Functional Specification and Use Cases

Publish a specification for beta testers to use

Change log

20 July 2007 - 'Bika LIMS 2.0 - Functional Specification and Use Cases' published as pdf