Fluentcontrol Sample Tracking reports help

Tecan
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So I’m attempting to utilize Fluentcontrol’s sample tracking add-on to generate reports following a worklist. We tend to run long worklists, and there are situations where the source well may have insufficient volume and instead of stopping to prompt the user on how to proceed, we ignore the errors. We now want to get a report out at the end that will tell us at which transfer step did a volume detection error occur in the source well.

I’m having issues understanding the data in these reports. It seems like they show the accumulated error codes for every source well. But, I want to know at which specific transfer step did an error occur. For instance, if in a worklist the same source well is aspirated from 10 times, but ran out of liquid on the 8th transfer, I want to be able to get that information from the report. Not just to know that an error occurred at some point for that well.

Maybe I’m using the wrong reports, but I think I’ve tried them all and none seem to have this type of information.

Any experience with this? Thanks

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your best starting point is the “data export” format,

this creates a list of all well actions (aspirate/dispense) and should allow you to search for the actual transfer with an error,

to generate reports, you’ll need to define “barcodes” for the labware so the software can then assign unique identifiers,

did you also install the quickviewer?

this is a good UI tool for looking at the wells etc

I’ve had to do a large amount of SQL handling to actually read back from the ST db to get the info I needed

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Have you tried to look at a ‘plate actions’ report?

Or try the QuickViewer Tool that Optimize mentioned. It’s a bit hidden on the FC Install Media, in one of the subfolders.

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Thanks for the responses.

I ultimately had to go the route of creating custom SQL queries and report to get the data I needed.