Screen flows

• Submit—Validate and save the changes.
• Refresh—Reload the original data. Any changes made since the last submit are lost.
• New—Create a new item related to the application.
• Save As—Create a new item based on the information provided by an existing item.
• Delete—Confirm and delete the current item.
• Open—Display a dialog box to enter an existing item to display its detail.
• New Search—Return to the Search screen and clear the search results and the search criteria.

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• Organisation Scope

  Indicates whether this entity is available organisation-wide or laboratory-wide.

  • Checked—The entity is available to users who are logged into any laboratory within the organisation.
  • Unchecked—The entity is only available to users who are logged into the current laboratory.

  Setting the QC type's scope upon successful creation depends upon the user's security level for the CCQCTYPE:CREATE resource. The possible security levels for the resource, from greater scope to lower scope, are:

  • full—full
  • 3—LAB AND ORG
  • 2—ORG ONLY
  • 1—LAB ONLY

  A user can have multiple roles, and each role can contain different rights. Any of these role-right combinations may contain the resource.

  If the resource does not exist across all role-right combinations for the user, then the user has no access to the resource. Otherwise the user's security level for the resource is determined as the greatest scope across all role-right combinations for the user. For example, if a user has Role1 that contains RightA, and Right A contains security level 2 for the resource, and the same user has Role2 that contains RightB, and RightB contains security level 1 for the resource, then the user has a security level of 2 for the resource.

  The selection in this field can determine the visibility for other fields in this form, and the content of various drop-down selection lists.

• QC Type Code

  The unique code assigned to the QC type.

• Name

  The name of the entity. Maximum length of 200 characters. Multi-language support.

• Description

  The description of the entity. Maximum length of 400 characters. Multi-language support.

• QC Type Category

  A category assigned to the QC type. Selected from categories with a Category Type of QCTYPES.

• Is Active

  Indicates whether the entity is available in drop-down lists when selecting a category for an entity. An inactive entity cannot be selected for use.

• Analytical Type

  The primary analytical type given to any QC sample made using this QC type:

  • Duplicate

  • Replicate

  • Standard

  • Blank

  • Spike.

  The selection in this field can affect the available options in the Secondary Analytical Type field.

• Secondary Analytical Type

  The secondary analytical type given to any QC sample made using this QC type:

  • N/A

  • Duplicate

  • Replicate.

    The selection of Analytical Type effects the available options in this field.

• Can Link to Unknown

  Indicates whether this QC type can be associated with an unknown sample. Currently no core functionality uses this, although it could be used by a script or report template.

• Linked QC Type Code

  If the QC type is configured with a Secondary Analytical Type, when a QC mask member is created for the Linked QC Type, and the QC mask member is applied multiple times to create more than one QC sample of that linked QC type's analytical type, then the second and subsequent QC samples can be associated with the first QC sample by having their Secondary QC Type selected as this analytical type. This field is only enabled if Secondary Analytical Type is REPLICATE or DUPLICATE. Selected from QC types that have the same Analytical Type as this QC type.

  Example: Given an existing QC type has a Code of SPIKE1 and an Analytical Type of Spike. Then create another QC type with a Code of SPIKE1_MATRIX and an Analytical Type of Spike. Then select the Secondary Analytical Type as Replicate and the Linked QC Type Code as SPIKE1. Then create a QC mask and add a QC mask member with an Analytical Type of Spike and QC Type Code of SPIKE1. After entering the Selection, Selection Type, Per Block, Minimum and Placement, enter the Number to Apply as 3 and select the Secondary QC Type Code as SPIKE_MATRIX. When this QC mask is used to add QC samples to a job scheme, it creates three QC samples that have a Primary Analytical Type of Spike and a Primary QC Type Code of SPIKE1 and the second and third QC sample has a Secondary Analytical Type of Replicate and a Secondary QC Type Code of SPIKE_MATRIX. This way, during assessment, the three spike QC samples are assessed as spike standards with the QC Script from the SPIKE1 QC type run during that standard assessment, and the second and third spike QC samples are also assessed as replicates with the QC Script from the SPIKE_MATRIX QC type run during the precision assessment.

• QC Script Code

  The code of the script run during QC assessment to perform custom assessment based on the QC type.

  • If the Analytical Type is Duplicate or Replicate, this script is run during precision assessment.

  • If the Analytical Type is Blank, Standard or Spike and the Secondary Analytical Type is N/A, this script is run during standard assessment.

  • If the Analytical Type is Blank, Standard or Spike and the Secondary Analytical Type is Duplicate or Replicate, this script is run during precision assessment due to the blank, standard or spike QC sample having a Secondary Analytical Type of Duplicate or Replicate.

  A script may be selected from the drop-down list that contains active scripts in scope with a Script Type of QC Type, as configured in the CCSCRT—Script application. Click the field hyperlink to display the CCSCRT—Search Script screen,select the appropriate value and click Select and Return to populate the field with the selected value.