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Introduction

Sometimes specimens are removed from Specimens are sometimes taken out of a box, but users may also need to reserve the position in the box to ensure it remains available for the specimen when it's returned.The process of retrieving a specimen from a box for when the specimen is returned. This process is known as 'Specimen check-out' when retrieving the specimen and blocking the position is called , and 'Specimen check-out'. Similarly, the process of in' when storing it back at in its original location is called 'Specimen check-in'.Earlier, when . When a specimen was previously retrieved, the box position would be vacated, allowing it to be used for become available for reuse with a different specimen. HoweverNow, using with the 'Check-Out' optionfeature, users can now block reserve the position to prevent it from being reassigned, preventing its reassignment.

Introduced in v10.1

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All specimen list pages have the ‘Action → Retrieve' option. This now has an additional checkbox for check-out. Below are the pages that supports support 'Specimen check-out' from list-view pages:

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  1. Select specimen>> Click on ‘Action’>> Select 'Retrieve'

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  2. In the pop-up, there is a checkbox for ‘Checkout’

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Overview

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A specimen can be directly checked - out from the specimen overview page

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From the Specimen overview page, click on ‘More' and select 'Checkout’

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Check out option is not visible if specimen is not stored in a box

Check-out status

In OpenSpecimen, specimens are marked Specimens are labelled with a checked-out status to facilitate easier simplify identification.

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  1. When the samples are checked out, there is a transfer event added with the storage status as ‘CHECK-OUT’.

    1. From the specimen overview page click on to the 'Transfer Event'

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    2. Details of check-out will be displayed

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  2. The container position is blocked with the specimen label and cannot be used to store any other sample until the position is unblocked.

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3. Specimen status updated to ‘Checked Out’ on the overview page

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Check-in specimens

Once you are done testing the specimens, you can check in the specimens. While doing so the original location is populated automatically for these specimens

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  1. Specimen A specimen can be checked in from the speimen specimen overview page.

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  2. A pop-up will be displayed to check-in the specimen, where you can also add details in the comments field

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  3. Using the 'Transfer' option multiple specimens can be checked - in. The original location is populated automatically for such specimens.

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Unblock checked-out specimen position

You can unblock the check-out specimen positions from the container in bulk. For example: The If the specimens were distributed and not returned back, the container positions that were blocked during distribution check-out need to be freed for utilization.

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Option 1

  1. Navigate to the container list page->Actions->Unblock

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  2. You can either add labels or barcodes for which the positions are to be unblocked.

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  3. On adding the labels, the blocked positions will be displayed. These will be unblocked once you click on ‘Unblock’

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Option 2

  1. Navigate to the container locations tab of a container that has blocked positions and click on ‘Unblock All’ to vacate all the blocked positions.

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Distribution

You can check out specimens while distributing specimens from the user interface.

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  1. Select the specimen, click on ‘Action' and select 'Distribute’

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  2. Select ‘Yes’ for ‘Checkout Specimens’ option

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Return

Specimens listed in the order can be returned to their original locations from which they were checked out during distribution.

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  1. From the distribution protocol page navigate to the orders by clicking on 'View Orders'

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  2. Click on ‘Return Specimens’

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  3. Add labels or barcodes of the specimens that were checked-out during distribution and are to be returned.

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  4. For the samples that were checked out, the container location will be auto-populated. Once you click on submit the specimen gets returned and stored in the location specified.

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Bulk Import

You can use the bulk import ‘Update’ function to check out specimens in bulk. Please see the 'Specimen' CSV below to check out the samples. For more details, refer to the wiki page for specimen CSV.

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  1. To check-in the specimens, you need to provide values in the ‘Location#Container’, ‘Location#Column' and ‘Location#Row' fields.

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  2. Similarly, for distribution, you need to add yes/true in the ‘Checkout Specimens’ column to check-out specimens while distribution.

Here is the sample CSV file:

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Query

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You can query for the checked-out samples by adding the filter. Please refer to the Reporting page of the wiki pagespecimen using the reporting module, for more details refer to Query currently checked-out samples.