PORTION_SEPARATOR
STRING, comprising a printable character
When you select Load from Scanner in the CCPRTN—Portion application and select submit to proceed load the portion data, then:
- If empty, then portion data cannot be loaded because the Job Name, Sample Name and Portion Code is not extractable.
- If not empty (default on deploy is '.'), then the portion data is parsed such that the sample separator is defined by the SAMPLE_SEPARATOR application preference and the portion separator is defined by this preference, and is processed as follows:
- Portion data should be delimited by a pipe character and consist of:
Portion identifier comprising
[JobName][SampleSeparator][SampleName][PortionSeparator][PortionCode]
with leading zeros removed from the parsed data before updating the portion.
- Location Code (optional)
- Single-capacity Container Type Code (optional)
- Sample Handling Code (optional)
- Notes (optional)
- Single portion updates should be on separate lines.
- If a portion that matches the Job Name, Sample Name and Portion Code of an existing portion is located, then only that portion is updated with the specified content.
- Portion data should be delimited by a pipe character and consist of:
Typically the preference is not set at role or user level.
