Limiting User Visibility of Biofields by Line of Business

• Limiting User Visibility of Biofields by Line of Business
  • Associating the Laboratory with Lines of Business
  • Creating an Org-scope Biofield for a Line of Business
  • Adding the Org-scope Biofield to a Sample
    • Limitations imposed by Lines of Business upon Adding Biofields to Jobs and Samples

A line of business is a mechanism to classify the work performed by a laboratory for its clients.

A laboratory can be associated with multiple lines of business.

Biofields created at the organisation level, that is, org-scope schemes, are regarded as master biofields.

Where an org-scope biofield is linked, optionally, to a line of business that is associated with the current laboratory, then the org-scope biofield is viewable by users within that laboratory. Otherwise, the biofield is hidden for use. This allows for a limited list of visible org-scope biofields for a laboratory, based on the analytical tests a laboratory is able to perform. Until a laboratory is linked to one or more lines of business, all org-scope biofields associated with a line of business are hidden to the laboratory's users.

Note that, an org-scope biofield does not have to be associated with a line of business, in which case, the biofield is visible to users across all laboratories.

If the laboratory creates a biofield of its own, then by definition the biofield does not belong to any corporate line of business, and can be used by that laboratory without any restriction based on lines of business.

Associating the Laboratory with Lines of Business

Link the laboratory to lines of business. Refer to Maintaining Lines of Business for a Laboratory.

Creating an Org-scope Biofield for a Line of Business

Create a job biofield and sample biofield, both with org-scope, and configure a line of business for the org-scope biofields. Refer to Maintaining Biofields.

Adding the Org-scope Biofield to a Sample

Create a production job. Add the org-scope job biofield to the job. Refer to Maintaining Jobs.

Add a group of samples to it with the org-scope sample biofield added to the sample group. Refer to Maintaining Biofields for Jobs and Samples.

Limitations imposed by Lines of Business upon Adding Biofields to Jobs and Samples

When searching for biofields to add to a sample group, the user can view only those org-scope biofields that have no associated line of business or a line of business matching one of the laboratory's lines of business. The user can view any lab-scope biofields.

Therefore users can affectively only add biofields that are in the laboratory's realm of analysis for their lines of business.