We were discussing the issue of destroying vs. closing samples and Randy suggested using a new Event for that which might better meet your needs than simply closing them with a comment. This would allow you to specifically record that samples were ‘destroyed’. They would still have to be manually closed after, but at least you’d have an official ‘Destruction’ event associated that could be queried.
This is an example of what that process might look like:
Select the samples I need to destroy from any screen. Then choose ‘Add/Edit Event’ from the Actions button.
Choose the Destroy Event
Choose the reason from the dropdown (I just came up with these, so we can always add more or word them differently.)
Once you save, then you have a specific destruction event, but you’d still have to go back to the samples and Close them as described previously.
If this is something that you’d find useful, I can certainly add it to Production.
As for adding greater permissions for your team, I’d be more than happy to help support Sophia and Alli in becoming super users. We’ll discuss this as they become more proficient in OpenSpecimen use as we develop your biobank.
Our team just launched an ‘Introduction to OpenSpecimen’ course through Canvas. We are now working on adding more advanced features. Hopefully this will help all of you to get up to speed.
You can also access the articles directly through this link.
We, too, would love to get your printer in the Round Lab up and running. Once we get the IP address from your IT team, it’ll be at the top of our list. So whatever strings you can pull to push that forward, please use them.