Registration

Clients submit samples to the laboratory for analysis, and have the certificate report, and perhaps an invoice (depending upon whether the laboratory is a consumer testing service or plant laboratory), returned to them. A client can represent an internal or external entity, or a different section of the laboratory or business. Jobs are associated with cost centres, and clients are associated with client groups, for financial reporting purposes.

The samples submitted by a client are entered into CCLAS EL as a job. A job is assigned a unique number for identification, and linked to the client, project and contact for later reporting and invoicing.

Samples are added to the job, and tests (schemes and analytes that pertain to the test methods) are assigned to the job's samples. Procedures are used to register routine combinations of schemes and analytes. Whilst the tests are recorded at job level. after analytical result records are created for each sample, scheme and analyte in the job, those sample-scheme-analytes that do not require analysis are 'gridded off' in the sample-test grid.

The process of creating a job and detailing the samples and tests is known as registration. Registration may extend over a period of time as the samples come into the laboratory.

When the registration is completed, the operator or supervisor activates the job, in which the Workflow Status of the job and samples move from Registered to Not Started, thereby making the samples available for analysis.

Sample tracking allows for the recording of portions associated with a registered sample, to associate them with physical sample types, containers and locations.

Part of registration processes is keeping customer information, ident rules and holidays up to date.