Viewing a Project or Subproject

The Projects tab presents an overview of the progress of samples belonging to a selected project or subproject. Two drop-down controls on the left-side of the Project Actions group are used to specify the project and/or subproject to view . When a selection is made the project screen populates with the details of the appropriate samples and the work that has been performed on those samples , if any.

Figure 4.1. The Project screen.

The details of the selected project are presented in a spreadsheet like view. The rows correspond to the samples in the project and the columns correspond to the protocols of the assigned method. Within a row, the first column displays the identifier of the original sample sent to the project and the remaining columns display the identifier s of samples, derived from the original, which have been sent to the worklist of the protocol that column represents.

The particular sample shown in a cell is determine d by the choice of the Best or Most Recent views from the Show group . The Best option displays the sample identifiers of the most successful samples (as determined by sample status) for each protocol, while the Most Recent option displays the sample identifiers of the most recently created samples , or the most recent samples assigned to a particular protocol’s worklist.

You can select a single sample by clicking on a cell or a specific group of samples by pressing the control key while selecting the desired samples . You can select a range of samples by holding the shift key down while clicking on the beginning and ending cells of the range . You can also select a group of samples by clicking on the Select drop down button in the Sample Action ribbon group.

When one or more samples are selected the user is able to access the sample history and send to worklist functionalities. By clicking a selected sample a second time a drop-down appears displaying all the samples descending from the original sample of that row that have also been processed with the protocol of that column, or sent to a worklist of the protocol. You can select one of these samples to replace the identifier for that cell.