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22.5 June 2022 (Update to E3 in November 2022) | - | |||||
What’s New This version 22.5 release of Signals Notebook brings a capability to our Materials Libraries to allow for libraries without batches (beta). We have also enhanced other material capabilities around PubChem, Containers and Requests. We have extended our Task & Request capabilities with some improvements, (beta) and extended our ongoing Configuration Transfer (beta). We have also fixed a number of small bugs. The following improvements are only available for users of Signals Notebook Individual Edition, Signals Notebook Standard and Signals Notebook Private Cloud
Administrators should note that we will soon be changing our IP addresses for our back end services. If you have integrations using External Sources, or use our Notifier APIs, and limit access to our provided IP ranges, please contact our support team for updated IP addresses. The following OnDemand videos for Inventory are now available
Administrators should also note that we have replaced our notification Service Signals Notebook Pulse with the following site here. Administrators should bookmark or can subscribe to this site for notification of any planned or unplanned outages on Signals Notebook and other PerkinElmer products. This site is part of a larger support news site found here, which contains more information about releases and other pertinent product information. Administrators should note that we will changing a Security Setting in Signals Inventory in our next release. If you have users that currently have Edit permissions to Containers through Inventory Security, they will not be able to edit the properties after the June 2022 release and will require Full Control instead. If Administrators would like to keep users being able to edit Container properties, they can update the Security Policy now or after the update to be: RULE "Inventory Security" Further Details Usability Improvements Users will now be able to see the total number of search results at the top of the search window. In the event your search returns higher than our maximum allowed results you will see the message below with your count estimate. The following improvements are only available to users and administrators of Signals Notebook Standard and Private Cloud and are unavailable as part of Signals Notebook Individual Edition. Inventory and Materials Uniqueness checking of DNA libraries has been enhanced to account for plasmids that are identical but may have different start sites due to user action. Such plasmids will now be detected if uniqueness checking rules are enabled and users will be asked to resolve duplicates during registration. Container Permissions have been updated so that Users that have Write permissions through a Security Policy will be able to Update Amount in containers, Check In/Out, Dispose, Copy Containers and Print Barcodes. Only users with Full Control will be able to update container properties. An example of the Security Policy to set full control is shown below. The PubChem Link is available to all Materials Libraries that have a CAS field. To better reflect this, the location of the PubChem Link Activation page has moved to Material Types: The Material Request Page has been updated so that Order Requests on the Materials Request Page that are in the Received or Cancelled status will be removed from the page automatically when they are over 30 days old from the Date Requested. Requests that are in the Backordered, Recognized at dock, Pending or On Order will remain, even if they are older than 30 days. Integrations & APIs The endpoint GET /materials/{eid}/drawing has been extended to allow download of chemical materials in SMILES or InChI format. The endpoint POST/entities/{eid}/reviews/close has been added to allow developers to Close Experiments, Parallel Experiments and Admin defined Objects, from Active or Approved. The developer can optionally add a comment. The endpoint GET/materials/bulkExport/reports/{reportID} has been added to check the status of the report requested via the POST/materials/{libraryName}/bulkExport endpoint. Sub-Experiment Layout The SubExperiment Layout is now available to all users where the administrator has enabled Parallel Experiments. This capability is now no longer considered as in beta and does not need to be requested. The following capabilities are in beta and are only available to users and administrators of Signals Notebook Standard or Private Cloud upon request. Please contact your account representative or our support team if you would like access to the following features. They are unavailable as part of Signals Notebook Individual Edition. Materials Materials Libraries that do not have associated batches can now be created by administrators. This provides further flexibility in modeling your data to reflect how information is tracked in your organization. These Assets can be added to containers and referenced in Materials tables. Custom, DNA, or Protein libraries can be created. Note that a new container tab is present to track the inventory of these items. Tasks and Requests Our existing Task and Request Workflows have been enhanced with improvements to the Task Table, Samples Table, and the Task Folder. Users can select multiple tasks at a time with check boxes at the front of each row or they can use the checkbox at the top to select all the tasks. After tasks are selected, the Bulk Actions drop down will be available. Bulk Actions adjust based on the status of a task (Submit, Delete, Duplicate and/or Cancel). Additional Tasks can be created by using the Create Task button. A new window will open, and users can fill in the appropriate information. If users would like to have all the references in 1 task, the check box needs to be checked. The Task Table can now be added to an experiment through the Add Content drop down. The Samples Table has been enhanced so that Tasks and a Task Table can be created through actions taken directly on the Samples Table. The Samples Table now has checkboxes and the Bulk Action drop down. When users select Create Tasks with selected samples the Task creation window will open. Users can create tasks on an individual row in the Samples table as well. Once the tasks have been created, the Task Table will automatically appear in the experiment. Tasks created in experiments inherit their security from the experiment. Only users that have access to the experiment in which the tasks were created in, have access to the task. The tasks created in the Request Folder will continue with the current security model. Users can select up to 10 rows at time to perform an action on. The selection and the action will vary depending on the status of the task. New tasks can be deleted (users should submit the tasks from the experiment or the request). Submitted tasks can be completed or canceled. In Progress and Completed tasks cannot be updated from the Task Folder. User may remove the filters by clicking the x next to the text or using the Clear All button next to the text terms. Users can search by a Date or a Date Range in columns that have dates, like Created Date. To change to a Date Range, use the drop down next to Date. Enter the date range you would like to filter by. Analysts can be assigned to tasks in the Submitted state from the Task Folder. Select the tasks that should be assigned and click the Assign Analyst option. A window will open to search for a user. Use the type ahead feature to find the user. The table will update with the newly assigned Analyst name. Note that assigning an Analyst to a task is not a requirement for the task to be completed. If a different Analyst puts the task in a Task To Do table, the Analyst field will update automatically. The new Experiment window will open. When the new experiment is created, a new Task To Do table with the selected tasks will appear in the experiment. The Task To Do Table has been updated so that users can select multiple tasks in the Task To Do table to perform an Update Status on. Depending on the task Status, the options in the drop down will change. Once the Status has been updated, it will show in the Task To Do table. It will also show in the original experiment’s Task Table. Configuration Transfer We have extended our configuration transfer capability to support transfer of Workflow settings from System Settings, Parallel Experiment settings and Notebook settings. We have also added an indication on import of any missing dependencies. |
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