Transferring racks between storage containers
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- Click Manage located under Racks in the Navigation Menu. A container selection page will be displayed.
Manage racks menu
Container Selection Screen - Click on a link for a Container to display its racks of specimens. Containers that have no racks will not be displayed as a clickable link and will be text. In the example below, Main Laboratory has no racks and so cannot be selected while Lab Fridge A has racks and can be selected.
- The Managing Rack page shown below will be displayed. Depending on user preference settings, either all racks or just expired racks will be displayed. Racks are sorted by expiration date and the information about each rack, such as Rack Type and Expiration Date, is color coded for quick reference.
- Expired rack's information is displayed in red
- Active rack's information is displayed in black
- Locked rack's information is displayed in blue
- There are two filters for displaying a container's racks called Show All Racks and Show Expired Racks. All of the racks in the example below, with the exception of rack 4T, are expired. Clicking on Show Expired Racks will reload the page filtering out rack 4T. On that page will be a Show All Racks button will reload the page displaying all racks including 4T.
Managing Racks
Container rack listing
- The Managing Rack page shown below will be displayed. Depending on user preference settings, either all racks or just expired racks will be displayed. Racks are sorted by expiration date and the information about each rack, such as Rack Type and Expiration Date, is color coded for quick reference.
- Click the check boxes that correspond to the racks to be transferred. Select all of the racks by clicking the check box in the column header to the left of the Rack ID column heading.
- Click the Transfer Racks button once the racks to be transferred have been selected.
Manage racks container rack listing with check marks - The Location for Bulk Transfer page shown below will appear. There are two types of containers that may not be selected during a transfer. The first container Lab Fridge A is not available because it is the source container of the racks. The third container Hematology (Fridge A) is also not available because transferring these racks will exceed the capacity of the container.
- Note: Hematology (Fridge A) would be available if the container capacity check was not enabled.
Transfer rack select destination screen
- Note: Hematology (Fridge A) would be available if the container capacity check was not enabled.
- Click the name of the container to transfer the racks into or click the Cancel Transfer button to cancel the transfer.
Transfer rack confirmation screen - Click the Add Note check box to add a note to this event if desired. Type the note into the text box that appears.
- Click the Yes button to transfer the racks into the selected container. Click the No button to cancel the transfer. Clicking either button will return to the manage racks screen.
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