Maintaining Single-capacity Container Types for Sample Portions

Overview

A single container type denotes a type of vessel used to store either a single sample portion.

Container types are created either with org-scope or lab-scope. An organisation or laboratory can contain multiple container types.

Container types are scoped by capacity type (container types are used for single container types, tray container types and multiple container types).

A single container type has:

• A container name syntax used to generate new container codes
• Default size and default size unit
• Default number of containers
• Stock item and description.

When samples arrive at the laboratory and As Registered portions are created for the sample, then the SAM_TRACK_REG_SINGLE_CONTAINER_TYPE application preference allows for a default single capacity container type for these portions, and the SAM_TRACK_REG_NUMBER_OF_CONTAINERS application preference allows for the creation of multiple containers of this type.