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TraceFinder Webinar series in Begins in October
please click the link below for more information.
http://www.thermoscientific.com/content/tfs/en/about-us/events/tracefinder-webinar-series.html
Links to each webinar listed below:
- Configuration and Administrator Console
- Acquisition and Intelligent Sequencing
- How to Develop a Quantitative workflow
- Quantitative Results
- Targeted Screening Methods and Results
- Reporting Engine
What the Heck is ACTIVE VIEW??????(Answer to a “Ask A Guru” question)
Active View is another visualization of the data that is on a Sample Centric Report. These are only availible today on samples that display chromatograms for compounds and contain grouped sample information.
Sucha as the High Density Reports, in the standard reports section of Report View.
When using Report View we generate a temporary view of the report that would be produced by the system. This view is only for the supplied Standard reports delivered with TF and is not available with Custom Reports, today. (Hint be looking to the future.) 😉
But when the report is generated in preview mode, and it has an ActiveView partner, the Active View tab will appear next to it.
In the Active View tab, you will see a grid of data that corresponds with data on the Report and the same Detailed Editing elements in Data Review, with the same functionality.
When data is changed in Active View it is just like editing in Data Review and results are updated. When this happens and indicator appears to let you know new results are availible for the report. Once clisked the Report is updated. The information is saved. In this manner you can use Report View as your data editor and see exactly what you are giving your clients in real time. You can at this point choose to generate the report, or make all your edits and then generate the reports in a batch process.
If the video is blurry please click the cog wheel at the bottom of the panel and increase the video display resolution.
Custom Reports Suddenly Stop Working????? Here’s a reason and a Fix!!!!
If you (suddenly) get an error like the following (which may vary depending on OS) when generating custom reports, it is likely caused by a recent security update for MS Office.
Good news is that Microsoft realized this problem and provided a “fix it” tool at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2703186.
This is what happens based on my investigation if you care:
There is an EXD file created for some VB 6.0 runtime files when you use the controls provided by the runtime files in the Visual Basic designer. Those files are located in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Forms\ folder (which may vary depending on OS). The problem is that, when security update installs new versions of certain runtime files, the EXD files become invalid and hence this error occurs.
To fix the error, you need to delete the EXD files and they will be re-created as needed. To delete those files, you can either use Microsoft provided “fix it” tool from the link above, or go to the folder directly and delete them.
This link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-027 gives you some details why the security update is necessary and which software are affected.
Stop Bouncing Around When Reviewing Data
In Tracefinder you have the ability to review your data in the form of you final report in Report View.
By selecting the report you want to see and the data you want see it from, as long as its a Standard Report shipped with TraceFinder, you can see a preview of the report without actually creating the pdf or paper.
This is a virtual report help in memory while you review it. It allows the user to see the end result but still be able to make some changes.
A feature of many of the Standard reports that are sample centric is the Active View tab.
This tab allows the user to stay in the reporting area and make data review type changes. It will display the results found in the text of the report, but give you the ability to perform chromatographic editing just like in Data Review. Once all the changes are made then simply press an Update Report button that will appear above the virtual reports and the data on the report will be updated and the results in the Data Review Screen will be too.
This keeps you from clicking around from Report View and Data Review.
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