Bika Interlab 1.3 (Jul 22, 2011)

Over the past months SAWLA, the South African Wine Laboratory Association (www.sawla.org) sponsored a number of incremental improvements and new features to Interlab, Bika's LIMS for inter-laboratory proficiency testing. These were bundled in this release.

For additional information about this project, please visit the overview page .

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Release Notes

Tested with	Plone 2.5
State	Final release
License	GPL
Release Manager	lemoene Smit
Released	2011/07/20 00:00:00 UTC

 

More information on the Bika Interlab project page

 

Change log

 

To enhance performance, mean, standard deviation an performance statistics are calculated at the close of the proficiency testing rounds only, no longer after each result submission. The disclaimer in sample views was changed to reflect that stats will be available at close of round

Inactive member labs and contacts can now be flagged. Only active labs and contacts get notifications of samples released for new testing rounds and their closures, results, etc.

The top performers portlet now includes the sample type and the member lab's position and score are now included in the round's closing email too. The lab now does not have to go on-line for this verification anymore.

The sample label has been improved and should any modifications take place to the round after the samples' release, say the closing date gets postponed, the modifications are communicated by email to all participants. A re-release action is introduced to re-release samples where releases were incomplete

Participation in a round now gets recorded. Only participating labs receive close of round and results notifications

To communicate general news or announcements to member labs, an email function and template is introduced from where PT managers can compile personalised messages (including name, surname, username, etc.) to all or a selection of member labs' contacts

A report to extract user and contact information was added

For testing purposes, a feature has been added to override email addresses - it redirects all emails to a test email address. A function to recalculate the round's stats for verification purposes, with no update of the database, was added for testing too

For SAWLA issues arised from the 'Density' analysis that for wine is typically very close to 1.00000 and only differs in the 4th or 5th decimal between results submitted by participating laboratories, with the standard deviation and Z-values equally precise. To resolve it, the decimal precision for analysis results and stats can now be individually configured

On the cosmetic front, the sample release and results emailed were prettied up with the PT association's logo and better text formatting

A lot of support issues arose from the 2 step results submission inherited from Bika's standard LIMS where results have to be verified by a lab manager after being submitted by an analyst. This workflow step is now optional