When the entire collected parent sample is processed, the sample gets exhausted. In OpenSpecimen, users can close such specimens automatically through settings at the collection protocol level.
Note: A closed specimen is a non-existing specimen whose record is still available but cannot be further processed or distributed.
Note: A closed specimen is a non-existing specimen whose record is still available but cannot be further processed or distributed.
On specimen collection page, towards the extreme right, there is an option for closing the specimens. It closes the parent specimens after collection and is useful when the parent specimen is to be discarded or gets exhausted while processing its child specimens.
By default, the close box on specimen collection pages for parent specimens is unchecked. To mark those parent specimens as closed by default, change the setting in the collection protocol as described below.
 2. Click on edit and then click on “show advanced settings”. 3. By default ‘Closing Parent Specimens’ is set to “No“ Example: On selecting “No” to close parent specimens, the following change is seen on collection of specimens.  4. To enable closing of parent specimens, select the “Yes“ checkbox.  Example: On selecting “Yes“ to Close parent specimens  |
Once a specimen is closed, it cannot be used for further processing or distribution, but the specimens can be reopened and then edited.
On closing the specimen, editing of the specimens, adding forms and events are disabled.
There is a disposal event logged for the specimen by the system and the storage location gets freed. As seen in the image below, the storage location then shows “Not stored”.
