Introduction

When researchers send in requests, you might wrongly distribute a few specimens or miss a few details. This feature lets you delete the wrongly distributed specimens within an order or delete the whole order and store the specimens back in the storage location.

Pre-requisite

Delete Complete order

• Navigate to 'Order' → Select the order you want to delete.

• Click on the 'Delete' button:

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Delete a Few specimens within an order

• Navigate to 'Order' → Select the order from which you want to delete specimens.

• Go to the 'Specimens' tab.

• Select the specimens and click on 'Delete':

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• Click on the ‘Yes’ tab in the delete confirmation pop window.

What happens when an order or specimens within the order are deleted?

• When a complete order is deleted, emails are sent to the distributor, requestor/PI, and coordinators of distribution protocol, as mentioned below.

• Upon specimen deletion within an order, emails with deleted specimen details are sent to the distributor, requestor/PI, and distribution protocol coordinators.

• Upon deletion, distribution and return events are removed from the specimens except for the disposal event.

• The specimen status changes to available.

• Users can either use the sample for further processing or edit it.

• Users can check the transfer event to allocate the initial storage location manually.

Specimen event status before deletion

Specimen event status after deletion

What happens to catalog requests and specimen statuses when an order is deleted?

The specimens within a request are marked as ‘Pending', and the request status changes to 'Approved’.