A site may ship whole boxes of specimens to another site. When receiving site receives these boxes, they store as is in their freezers. From v4.3, OpenSpecimen allows the user to track this workflow of shipment of containers from one site to another.
Below are prerequisites to ship/receive containers using OpenSpecimen:
Check the list of containers to be shipped, make changes if any and click on ‘Ship’ button
User is able to save the shipment as a draft by clicking the ‘Save Draft’ button. |
The users selected under the field ‘Notify Users’ while creating a shipment, will be notified when the container is shipped. |
5. Select parent containers from the receiving site to store the shipped containers and click on ‘Receive’ button
6. Click on the ‘Download Report’ button from the shipments overview page to download the shipment report
The sender of the shipment will be notified when the container is received at the receiving site. |
For the specimens stored in the shipped or received containers, system adds ‘Shipment Shipped Event’ and ‘Shipment Received Event’ respectively.
You can create the shipment of containers holding the specimens in bulk, for more details refer to 'Create/Update Container Shipments'