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Introduction

‘Specimen Type’ is the most important and specialized dropdown.

Define Specimen Class (v10.3 onwards)

Before v10.3, only 4 specimen class (Fluid, Molecular, Tissue and Cell) were supported. From v10.3 onwards you can add different specimen class like plants, microbes, etc. depending on your requirement.

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You can now add new specimen classes from v10.3 onwards

  • Go to 'Dropdown Manager'. Select 'Specimen Type'

  • Click on 'Add'

  • Enter the Class name in ‘Dropdown value', leaving 'Parent Dropdown’ blank.

  • Add the mandatory properties: ‘quantity_unit', ‘concentration_unit’, and ’container_color_coding’:

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    Once new class is added, this can be used as ‘Parent Dropdown' for new specimen types.

Below are the specimen-type properties

Attribute

Property Name

Property Value

Description

Specimen Type

quantity_unit

Quantity units for the specific specimen type

Used to display the units on the specimen pages. Value can only be plain text. If special characters like symbols need to be used, it needs to be specified under quantity_display_unit. For e.g., μg/m3

By default, the units are set at classes level which will apply to all types under it:

  • Tissue: gm

  • Fluid: ml

  • Molecular: µg

  • Cell: count

Specimen Type

concentration_unit

Concentration unit for the specific specimen type

For example - microgram/ml

Specimen Type

container_color_coding

The color representing the specimen class in the container location view

For example - background=red,opacity=0.5