Introduction

We are happy to announce that v9.1 is ready for download! This release includes new features, usability enhancements, and bug fixes requested by customers. 

New features include:

• Folders to organize carts

• Displaying names for containers in addition to unique names

• User interface revamp using VueJS

• Catalog & request enhancements

• eConsent enhancements

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Software/Hardware requirements

Review this page before upgrading for any changes: Software/Hardware Requirements.

Cart Folders

Reported by: Murdoch Children's Research Institute & Indiana University

You can now organize carts into folders which can also be shared with other users.

Open

Refer to https://openspecimen.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CAT/pages/2494201913 for more details.

Processing workflows

Reported by: University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands)

New features of workflows module include:

• Container auto allocation while processing child specimens

• Auto calculations for aliquots processing. E.g. Calculate cell count and no. of aliquots of PBMC that can be processed based on volume and cell count of the parent

Refer to https://openspecimen.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CAT/pages/2430959621 for more details.

Catalog enhancements

Reported by: National University Hospital, Singapore

Below are some Catalog and Request module enhancements:

1. An email notification is sent on closing the specimen catalog request. Previously, email was sent only on request approval and rejection.

2. Ability to 'Search' under catalog columns selection in the results view.

3. Added toggle checkbox on each row to allow users to select the specimens in the catalog results view. This makes it evident that the specimens can be selected.

4. Added "Clear Cart" and "Remove Category" buttons on the cart review page.

5. Displayed comments added at the time of closing the request on the overview page.

6. Allowed users to reset the request status to Pending. An approved or rejected request can be moved to Pending. An approved request can be reset to Pending only if none of the request items are distributed.

Audit enhancements

Some of the modules like carts, catalogs, arrays, dropdown manager, protocol workflows, etc. were missing audit functionality. Now every module in OpenSpcimen is audited.

Also, login audit report was taking time to download for larger reports. Now, this is asynchronous i.e., if it takes time to download, it is processed in the background, and a mail is sent when it is ready to download.

eConsent enhancements

Reported by: Columbia University Irving Medical Center, The University Of Kansas Medical Center

eConsent: Ability to delete/archive the filled consent

Revision: Should not be editable once the consent form is used for at least for one patient.

Sharing consent documents across multiple collection protocols

Allow same consent form multiple times per visit

eConsent: Privileges for creating vs updating consents

Restrict CP co-ordinator to edit the signed consent

Strict Date Format Parsing for Bulk Import

Earlier, incorrect year values such as 0022 were getting inserted if the date format set was MM/dd/yy as strict date parsing was missing. This bug is now fixed, as a result, the date formats with single day (09/12/2020) or (12/03/1985) month digits show date parsing error as sometimes the CSV file does not consider the index 0. To avoid the error, the format M/d/yyyy can be used. Refer to the wiki page to add new date formats.

Bugs & Enhancements

Below are some other fixes implemented in v9.1:

All Improvements and Bugs

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