6.5 Sample attributes

Bika / Senaite LIMS provides a host of Sample and Analysis attributes not used by all labs, even in the same discipline. Select the ones your lab requires, and order them top to bottom on the Sample registration form

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On the Sample Registration page

Labmanagers do this configuration on the Sample registration form itself. Click the Manage Form Fields link on the form

Please note that many screenshots here still refer to Samples as Analysis Requests or ARs. This term has been phased out from mid 2019. Screenshots still to be updated

Manage Analysis Request Form fields in Bika LIMS Senaite

Select the fields you want on the form and drag them up or down to position them, and click Save

The Sample registration form renders accordingly

The selection is then applied throughout the system until the attribute list is edited again. All new Samples thereafter will be created in the new form. Historic ones keep their original shape

AR rendered according configuration. Bika | Senaite Open Source LIMS

Sample attribute Full House

Required fields can not be deselected

These are the fields rendered at Sample creation time. Further down the workflow path to eventual Verification and Publication, more are added e.g. sequential LIMS Sample IDs, date times, method, instrument, result & unit, analyst etc.

Including Senaite Health

Attributes acquired later in italics

Batch/Case

Batch Sub-group

Client

Samples

(Analysis Requests of old)

LIMS Sample ID. SID

Client Sample ID. CSID

Sampling Round

Expected Sampling Date

Date Sampled

Sampler

Sample Type

Sample Point

AdHoc Sample Y/N

Composite Sample Y/N

Environmental conditions

Default Container

Sampling Deviation

Sample Condition

All Sample and Analysis Request attributes currently in Bika | Senaite Open Sourcer LIMS

Sample Rejection

Storage Location

Sample bits

Contact, Contact email address

CC Contacts, CC email addresses

Client Reference

Client Order Number

Analyses

Preparation Workflow

Priority, Price, Invoice Exclude Y/N

Patient

LIMS Patient ID. PID

Client Patient ID

Doctor

AR Template

Analysis Profiles

Analysis Specification

Interpretation

Attachments

Audit Trail

Date Time and User for Samples

Registered, Received, Prepared, Expired, Disposed, Cancelled

Date Time and User for Analysis Requests

Registered, Sample Received, Analysed, Retracted, Verified, Published, Invalidated, Cancelled

Analyses on the Sample

Results and their associated data are captured per individual Analysis. The Analyses on a Sample are created from the Analysis Services configured earlier. The Analysis inherits the Analysis Service's attributes such as Unit, Method, Detection Limits etc.