Release: LDMS for the web 11.0

Fri, Jan 31, 2025

Howard Gutzman

Frontier Science is pleased to announce the release of LDMS for the Web version 11.0. Below is a full list of changes for this release.

Full Release Notes

New Features:

Added a new date field at the primary and aliquot level: Unavailable Date (R-39436) + Unavailable Date added to Custom Report Builder under Specimen category (R-39437) + Unavailable Date added to Specimen Filter (R-39438) + Added Unavailable Date to Set Condition Code and Storage Delete Popups (R-39439)
Option to print labels for specimens is now available when users are scanning for QA/QC in the shipping module (R-20516)
A new User Setting is available that allows users to optionally display Global ID, PID, and Specimen ID in the storage tree main view and move popups (R-41849)
Users can now override the import-as-is box configuration when importing samples (R-22989)
The Other Spec ID field can now be edited from the pending test run setup screen (R-27841)
Set Condition Code feature now available in Test Results module (R-31219)
Added new project: AIS (Nigeria state-level ART Impact Survey) (R-43434)
Added new project: KENPHIA2 (R-43875)
Updated the Mark to Ship feature so an intended ship date will now be automatically set based on the category that is selected and the current date. Users also have the option to manually set the intended ship date (R-43560) + If users mark a specimen to ship and selects ship category, the Mark to Ship popup will now indicate to the user what the intended ship date will be (R-44409)
Users will now be notified on login if they have overdue shipments (R-43592)
Added 3 new fields to Custom Report Builder under the Storage Category: (R-42319) + Level 1 Position: displays the position that level 1 is assigned within the storage unit + Level 2 Position: displays the position that level 2 is assigned within level 1 + Container Position: displays the position that the container is assigned within either level 1 or 2
Added new selectable criteria to custom report builder: Original Volume, Original Volume Unit (R-43239)
Modified the number of characters allowed in the “Internal Only” comment field (R-31250)
Drop down customization lists are now in alpha/numeric order (R-37542)
Added field “Primary Database Id” (RootSampleId) to csv shipping file (R-37637)
Shipping Box Positions are now able to be Manually Updated in an Outgoing Shipping Box (R-40823)
Deletion of freezers that contain specimens is no longer possible. A warning message has been added to intermediate level and storage container deletion pages indicating the number of specimens that they contain and that will be removed from storage when the level/container is deleted (R-40928)
ID1, ID2, and ID3 names of user-defined projects are now automatically trimmed when a project is created or modified (R-41078)
Added storage Filters to Storage move popups (R-41865)
Added Global specimen IDs to error message when sample errors prevent saving (R-41924)
QA/QC is now refreshed when saving (R-42109)
QA/QC editor now warns the user when closing the window if there are unsaved changes to QA/QC pass/fail info or comments/Other Spec ID for any specimens on any containers (R-42113)
When a user deletes items, LDMS will now require a ‘Reason for Delete’ text field that will then be displayed in the User Event Log report (R-42289)
Fixed inconsistent date format for cryopreservation manual results and file results (R-42592)
ZIP project is now non-Exportable (R-42630)
Removed ID1 check for MOSAIC project (R-42686)
Global Specimen ID field has been updated to only allow capital letters (R-42719)
Added event log for user events and a corresponding report (R-42736)
Custom Report Builder now only accepts uppercase letters for global Id field (R-42833)
BHP project is now non-exportable (R-42864)
ID3 now required for Botswana MOH (R-42940)
Botswana ID1 format updated to require 2 letters followed by 8 numbers (R-42941)
Control characters are no longer included on 2D generated barcode labels (R-42969)
Updated Quick Add templates report to display template level comments (R-43365)
The shipment evaluation popup now allows the user to associate ID2s and comments with each problem code value that gets set (R-43559)
Standard Reports now allow users to upload a list of global specimen IDs for any report that has a filter criteria of global spec ID (R-43571)
Added new REPRIEVE 1D barcode label format (R-43702)
Add Specimens button is now disabled when the test results editor is read-only (R-44048)
Specimen Collection Time now required for the PHACS project and will be active for HOPE, PH700, and all future PHACS studies, but not for any previous or historical studies (R-44266)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed issue where dropdown select for label field was not long enough to properly display Collection/Harvest Date (R-36213)
Fixed issue where, when adding samples with assigned tests in Quick Add, the SampleTests.Comment field would sometimes be added as an empty string instead of NULL (R-37782)
Fixed issue where the correct error message would not be displayed when importing a CSV file with invalid row or column (R-38999)
Adjusted the language of the error message that displays when attempting to modify a special storage unit (R-39230)
Fixed issue where, if a user has a primary in their database that is enrolled in a project which has since been disabled, and the uses Manage Enrollments for that primary, the project dropdown does not display properly when switching between enrollments (R-39866)
Fixed issue where removing filters could cause an error (R-41016)
Fixed issue where QA/QC records would persist if a stored sample that is currently on a pending shipment was deleted (R-41187)
Fixed issue where printing 1D or 2D barcodes for a pending shipment would not print for all shipping containers, storage units, storage levels, storage sublevels, and storage containers on the shipment (R-41549)
Fixed issue where appending whitespace to a comment cascaded the comment to the aliquots (R-41763)
Fixed an issue when adding a comment to a Quick Add Template with a newline character triggered cascade to aliquots (R-41766)
Fixed various performance bottlenecks (R-41862)
Fixed issue where Edit Aliquot volume check could sometimes fail due to float precision issues (R-41899)
Fixed issue where user would be asked when editing an aliquot comment if changes should be cascaded to other aliquots when there weren’t any other aliquots (R-42492)
Fixed issue where Total Cell Yield After Separation value did not allow 2 decimals (R-42675)
Fixed various issues with comment comparison and trimming (R-42816)
Updated error message language for when attempting the send a shipment with illegal characters in the email address (R-42972)
Fixed issue where the challenge code for ID1 updates in Manage Enrollments was not always appearing when needed (R-43101)
Fixed issue where filtering on shipping batch in specimen management did not filter correctly (R-43208)
Fixed issue preventing labels from being printed from Quick Add (R-43299)
Added missing filter options to PK Summary Report (R-43300)
Fixed issue preventing LDMS from being able to import shipments that had local project names with leading/trailing whitespace (R-43806)
Fixed issue preventing users from being able to perform QA/QC on sent shipments (R-43808)
When an error is received as a result of attempting to ship samples with “assigned test = Other” but no test name is specified, the error will now display the Global Specimen ID of the sample (R-43842)
Fixed issue where a single row and multi-select edits for aliquots behaved inconsistently (R-44080)
Changed behavior of re-login popup window to treat the Enter key as equivalent to clicking the OK button (R-44102)
Fixed issue where the merge validation error page did not list the validation errors (R-44242)
Fixed issue where it was not possible to ship a shipment without first saving it (R-44298)