Filters are available on several pages and are used to narrow down the information
that is displayed so that you can find something.
About this task
On many pages in LDMS, all information for a particular task will be displayed
together. For example, if you are on the Specimen Management page, all participants in your
laboratory’s database will be displayed. If your laboratory has information for 200
participants, all 200 will be displayed by default and you would need to page through each one
to find what you are looking for.
Filters can be used to temporarily limit the amount of participants shown so that only records
of interest are displayed. This is the primary way to search for items in LDMS.
Procedure
Open a page with filters, such as the Storage or
Specimen Management pages.
Filters are displayed in the filters panel on the left side of the page, below
the action menu.
Locate the desired filter.
Filters are grouped into categories, such as visit filters and specimen filters. Some
categories will be specific to the current page. For example, the storage container
filters will only be available on the Storage page.
Figure: The filters panel. In this example, the FRONTIER filter has already been applied to Project. This means that only information for that project will be displayed.
Select or enter the information to be shown from the filter box.
You can either select the information to filter from this list or enter it into the box.
Filters will automatically show available options as you type.
Note: Filters do not affect other filters. For example, if you select the
FRONTIERproject, then try to apply a filter for
ID1, all ID1 values in the laboratory’s database will be
available for selection, even if they don’t below to the FRONTIER project.
Results
The filter will be applied immediately once it is selected and the page will automatically refresh to remove any records that do not meet the filter’s criteria. If two filters were
selected, they will both be applied using “and” logic. For example, if you selected FRONTIER from the Project filter and
BLD from the Primary type filter, only blood specimens for the FRONTIER project will be displayed..
What to do next
To remove a filter that has been applied, find it in the filter panel on the left
side of the page and click on it. It will be removed immediately and the page will
automatically be refreshed to reflect the change.
