Lab files

How to check a laboratory’s certificates in QC Analytical Results before they go into your database: upload, define codes, read the report, keep certificates in a project.

The Lab files tab checks a laboratory’s certificates before their results go into your database. Each certificate gets a verdict of Pass, Query or Fail, and every finding says why it matters and what to ask the lab.

These articles take one task each, in the order you meet them. New to the tab? Get ready to check certificates shows the steps in order, and the example certificates show them with made-up data. The Student guide: Lab files page explains each finding on the examples, and Checking lab certificates describes every control on the tab.

In this section

• Get ready to check certificates
• Load the example certificates and read the report
• Upload a laboratory certificate
• Upload several certificates together
• Define result codes and row prefixes
• Load your CRM certified values
• Save CRM values to your library
• Use your own stage names
• Load your QC sheet
• Read the certificate report
• Act on a suggestion from the values
• Print the report or save it as PDF
• Keep accepted certificates in a project
• Deal with a re-issued certificate
• Accept or return certificates in the holding area
• Add a client and give it its own set-up
• Set the rules for an account or a client
• Open accepted certificates on the other tabs
• Set up codes and prefixes for each laboratory