Navigation on the Storage page

The Storage page shows a representation of your real-life storage as a collapsible tree.

This tree is called the storage tree view, and shows all of the items in storage as you have defined them in LDMS.

Figure: The Storage page. (1) Navigate between pages (if your storage page does not fit on one). (2) The location of the specimen in “Auto-generated box #74-1”. (3) Edit menu for storage item named “Auto-generated box #74-1”. (4) The storage tree view. (5) Indicator that you can scan a barcode to add samples into a storage location. (6) The ability to automatically assign storage locations. (7) Close all units, levels, and containers.

The storage units in the storage tree are sorted alphabetically by name. The contents within storage units are sorted by position. Before expanding any storage items however, you can scan a barcode to search for a stored item automatically when the following icon is shown at the top of the page:

Click on the + button to the left of a storage item to open it. The contents in the square brackets next to the item’s name (such as [ 1, 2 ]) indicates that items position in its parent storage item. To the right of each storage menu is the Edit menu for that item. The options available from this menu will vary, depending on the type of storage item.