You can now drag and drop sections in Reports, making it faster and easier to reorder them.

Labguru’s Chemical Compounds module now uses OpenBabel for auto-calculating chemical properties, replacing the Chemaxon integration, offering a wider variety of chemical properties to be automatically calculated for each compound in the collection.
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You can now manage partial deliveries in the shopping list by specifying a general storage location and selecting the quantity to store, up to the ordered amount. The order automatically updates to reflect the remaining quantity.

A new "Size" field has been added to the inventory module, allowing users to specify a numeric value and a unit of measure when adding or editing purchasable items, providing a more structured way to manage quantities and measurements. The previous "Unit" field has been renamed to "Unit Remark".

Sample Pooling feature introduces the ability to combine multiple individual samples into a single, consolidated pool. This capability supports pooling across various inventory items and collections, enhancing lab efficiency, tracking, analysis, and resource management.

Introducing experiment flagging in Labguru! Easily categorize experiments with custom flags, enabling quick sorting and filtering based on outcomes. Admins can add icons, colors, and descriptions to tailor flags for the organization’s needs.

You can now choose to open the spreadsheet element as a pop-up for easier editing. This option offers full-page viewing and a more consistent, user-friendly experience, while still allowing direct sheet editing.

You can now include parent columns when adding inventory items to a sample element, ensuring easy access to all relevant data.

Connect Labguru to Avantor IM to sync storage locations, view materials, and access PoU details like stock levels and quantity thresholds, with real-time updates as stocks are consumed.

A new ability to export inventory items without stock.

A new feature in datasets pages allows for adjusting the column data type display to fine-tune filtering and sorting functions.

Design update to the locked section feature that notifies users when a section is being edited by another person. This new design enhances section visibility and access to data while maintaining the locking mechanism, replacing the previous grey overlay with a more user-friendly interface.

You can now assign a protocol to another lab member.

You can now scan barcodes into the quick search bar on the Stocks main page, simplifying your search.
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Boxes and Equipment can now be filtered and sorted based on their location.

A global header and footer can now be defined for ELN and Knowledgebase pages in printed pdf files

The project and folder permissions option lets you set the default editing permissions for newly created experiments by adding members or teams.

The collections customization page now offers the option of selecting whether the items' names in a collection should be unique

Rearrange storage location within storage module is now possible by dragging and dropping

SOP's were moved to E-Notebook menu:
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Users can now filter and sort datasets directly from the Labguru page

API additions, users can now-

Users can now select the account to which they want to subscribe an equipment from department account.

Users can now filter their shopping lists by custom LOV fields, as well as the Order Number field

Members page can now be sorted and filtered according to different fields

A system administrator now has the ability to edit an open request at all statuses except completed

At a request in 'Draft' state, the requester can select a team leader to submit request for approval.

Team leaders and admins can reassign performers at the 'Assigned' and 'In-progress' statuses

A deletion capability has been added, request owners and admins can delete requests (completed requests and archived ones will not be available for deletion) .

Email notifications related to assignments or the progress of requests will now display the account name from which they originated.

The boxes index page can now be filtered by different box fields like Box ID, Box name, Content type, and even Stock count, which enhances the efficiency of Labguru inventory management.

Tagging is now available for signed or witnessed pages, which improves the organization and retrieval of important ELN pages within Labguru.

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The Compound Collection now supports the addition of multiple compounds with the same chemical structure.

The number of stocks that can be created at once, has been increased from 100 to 5000.

When adding a stock to a box 'Content' fields Extended's its search to be by Name, SysID, or catalog number when adding stock through the box page.

A unique SysID will be assigned to each item in the Consumables collection (existing items will have a SysID retrospectively based on the chronological order in which they were created in the account).

Downloading EasyEdit2 application is available through left main menu

Columns created from field type of "List of values" throughout Labguru pages were added a filter by search option at column headers

A 'Last updated' column has been added to Datasets

Admins now can set a date in the support access field at account settings

Compounds import using Excel template- description of compounds' structure is now available using InChI (International Chemical Identifier) notation in addition to the ability to use SMILES.

Click here to learn more.
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Multi-step signature flows are now available allowing you to assign the right members, teams, or logic according to your project requirements.

New in Form element- users can document in real-time the reasons for changes made in a filled Form. These documented reasons are seamlessly reflected in the audit trail, bolstering transparency and accountability.

Click here to learn more.
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New for Spreadsheet element, password protection for sheets and workbooks is available from the Home tab -->Format menu.

Add your samples to an experiment by using the Sample Basket

Import template for stocks and inventory items enables when creating a new box to select a specific cell in Racks to place the box

The stock index page can now be filtered by the specific Collection the stocks belong to, this allows for a more tailored search of your stocks.

New for stocks- It is now possible to create customized stock types to describe stock containers. For more information click here.

Chemical services have been upgraded to incorporate compound uniqueness, preventing any duplications

Request module is here! a powerful new module that can help you streamline your work and manage requests more effectively. With Requests, you can easily submit, track, and manage requests in one place, and collaborate with your team to get things done faster.

Total material by volume or weight is calculated for an inventory item according to stocks availability. (Available for stocks with non custom units).

Stock alert for inventory items has expended settings allowing user to select measurement type (total volume, weight or number of stocks) for alert

Selecting multiple parents from the same collection for an Inventory item is available

Selecting new items as commercial or non-commercial is now possible in all collections with purchasable attributes turned on. Commercial items require 'Manufacturer' and 'Cat. Number' to be added, non-commercial require 'Produced by' to be filled.

Option to mark items in collection with purchasable attributes as non-commercial. The option

A field for box barcode allows entering custom barcodes for boxes

Datasets associated with a batch record are displayed in the datasets tab at eBR module

An hourly event scheduling function for instruments is now available in the Scheduler under Equipment module

New EasyEdit2 desktop application

With the EasyEdit2 desktop app, you can now use both the Local Edit tool and the UpFolder tool at the same time. You can learn more by reading the following articles

Coping whole sections to current and existing experiments is now possible- you can select desired sections from experiments and protocols and place them into the experiment of your choice. For more information click here

New in stocks pages, you can now send tasks to a colleague from a stock show page as well as from the dashboard or from your research pages.

A “forgot password” link is now available on the password renewal page

In account List Of Values (LOVs), a multiple select option was added. For more information click here.

Partial delivery in the shopping list is now available as part of the 'Mark As Arrived' flow.

When a protocol has samples, a notification will be shown when starting a new experiment if any of the samples specified in the protocol do not have enough stock available to complete it.

No major updates

It is now possible to add new data to an existing dataset!
The data can be added directly to an existing dataset by uploading an XLSX file to dataset page or by attaching an XLSX file to the experiment page.

Click here for more information

You can now set box permissions for other members and teams. The permissions apply to the box and it contained stocks.

New in collections- admin user can create pre-defined List-Of-Values (LOVs) which can be used in multiple locations in your Labguru account.

This can save you the time and trouble of setting and maintaining this list in multiple locations.

For more information click here.

Checkout our shopping list's new look:

Stock aliquoting- you can now aliquot a stock to up to 10,000 aliquots in one action.

Labguru's new Lock format feature enables you to define a protocol format as locked, allowing you to record information and data on the experiment page while maintaining the original format set up in the protocol.

When starting an experiment from a protocol with a locked format, a section or element introduced to the protocol cannot be removed.

A new type for stocks was introduced into Labguru - "Culture box" , can be found and used to represent container type for a stock.

API Webhooks - it is now possible to have Webhooks on vectors and samples, allowing to create workflows that are triggered by action such as: destroy, update, and create vector. To learn more click here.

Set Max input length for insert text field in form element.

Our new spreadsheet element is here!

We improved the spreadsheet appearance and added a wide variety of Excel-like functions such as Number formatting, graphs and charts, sort & filter options, formula bar and many more. You are welcome to learn more here.

You can now set a Custom Signature Process onto a project.

Admin users can create custom-made signature flows for projects, which will be passed down to experiments within the project.
When a signature flow is applied to a project, only members that were defined in that flow will have the option to witness project-related experiments (even if their role does not include the 'Can witness' privilege).

Signature flows can be customized on the ‘Signature Process’ tab in account settings page

New! email notification for an email address change and for password change

The possibility to filter the shopping list by catalog number was added

Stocks quick search- the ability to search for a stock by it's ID number was added to the quick search in the socks index page

Account settings- check out our new Role management page design and structure. Now it is easier to define the privileges and permissions for each role in the account.

You can find here more information about Account Roles and Privileges.

Sample element -Consume all stocks button is introduced

Equipment events now have a setting for preventing concurrent events via account settings, under the 'General' tab. Scheduling simultaneous events for equipment will not be possible once turned on, this setting will affect all instruments in the account.

The possibility to change the appearance preferences for the navigation menu was added-

Preferences settings: User profile menu -> My Profile

Opening possibilities: Mouse toggle or mouse click

API webhooks - Information added for inventory item update (old value, new value, updated at). See the video below for an example-

Several global search enhancements are in!

Datasets - offering a new option to set viewing permission per dataset, use

Visible to icon to set members with viewing permission

Samples element - Stock expiry date is now added to the stock columns within the sample element

Print PDF - a new option to create page breaks at desired locations within sections between elements, these are editable and flexible. When printing a pdf you can see their impact, adjusting is a matter of drag and drop. The addition of page breaks is through the more menu available in each section, deleting one is easy just look for the bin icon next to the dotted line

It is now possible to archive inventory items

We added double confirmation when deleting a row in a form table

Light blue background color was added to highlighted empty input fields in Forms

The Thunder design is out of Beta with a bunch of design upgrades

New DNA Sequence and map display

New feature that allows restoring previous versions of some types of elements

It is now possible to select equipment type in the form input fields to specify the selection in that field to an instrument of a certain type

A new form input allows triggering an automation sequence using the Workflow Editor

The date range function now allows setting an absolute date

A new option in the PDF printout allows adding/remove tags

Gantt chart in SOP - it is now possible to design the SOP structure by ordering the protocols and creating dependencies.

It is now possible to choose a sample color in the sample element, if those samples will be added to a plate, the colors will propagate to it.

New "swaggered" Labguru API docs page is now available, with the new design and structure, it is easier to find endpoints and with the "Try it out" function it is now possible to test the requests on the page.

A significant upgrade was done to the roles and privileges functionality - you are welcome to learn more here

When aliquoting a stock the value in the LOT number will be passed to the aliquots.

From now a QR code in addition to the barcode can be scanned to add a stock to an experiment/sample basket

The ID number can be used to find an inventory item or an ELN entry in the linked resources or the Global search.

If you are using multiple workspaces from now links generated from within Labguru (such as comments send by email) will forward to the relevant workspace.

Box printouts will show the full storage path.

New shopping list triggers were added to the work flow editor

Stocks index page includes more filtering options

Stocks can be added to the sample basket from stocks index page and from box page allowing the addition of multiple stocks at once, without having to add items.
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In sample element in protocols, properties can be added to samples. When creating experiment from the protocol all properties will be copied.

Events created from date range elements in experiments appear in the project calendar

New dedicated code element is now available in the More menu of the section

New text and spreadsheet elements can be added to a section from the section title menu, without going into the 'More' menu.
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New feature - aliquots - allows to easily create sub stocks, calculate volumes and link to the original stock. New API endpoints added as well.

Toggle to new beta design of the app was added

The project Gantt chart can be exported as an image

Experiments, documents and protocols can be now exported to Word

Bug fixes

New table design implement in the datasets index allowing more sorting/filtering tools.

Added an option to search/filter by the description column in collection pages

When starting a new experiment, in the folder selection, the last folder used will be suggested.

New API endpoint - mark task as completed

In the select stock window it is now possible to view long values on hover

A new option allows to add attached HTML files to be viewed directly on ELN pages

From now all events that the user was invited to will appear in his calendar (without the need to add the event owner's calendar).

The audit trail page is now available for admins from the account drop down menu

It is possible now to add read-only custom fields to any of the collections, those fields can be updated from the API only (see checkbox in the screenshot)

The column search filters will search by default with the 'contains' setting

2 new custom field types are available - date+time and longtext

In the project Gantt chart the name of the experiment/folder owner is now seen, project owner can also change (reassign) the item directly by clicking on the owner name.

In the API: it is now possible to get all derived items of an inventory item

Moved the reports index and all the collections to the new table design allowing more filters and options

Account (workspace) ID was added to the API authenticate request - when an account specific token is required. In addition, new endpoint was added to allow update of form element.

Tag search is now case insensitive to avoid duplicate tags

Moved all collection tables to the new design (previously enabled with the beta toggle) with a new filters rows

In the equipment calendar - event notifications now can be sent to specific users

In the scheduler it is now possible to find the next available time slot by equipment type automatically

Bulk deletions over 100 items will be done as a background process

Experiments and protocols tab (item pages) was separated into 2 tabs and a new table design was applied.

Added attachment name in the shopping list

A new add-on feature - Labguru Dashboards, built/design custom dashboards to get insights from Labguru data.

New column in the audit trail that shows the change that was made

The name of the steps element can be changed

New feature - move multiple stocks by scanning, using a scanner you can now move stocks from one storage location to another, all can be done in the sample basket window.

The Inventory collections list is now sorted by alphabetical order by default

New Feature - Stock History tab - on the stock page there is a new tab called "History". This tab will show all actions done for the specific stock since it's creation.

New feature - SDF mapping - now when compounds are imported via an SDF file, fields mapping window will appear as the first step of the import process. All the data fields in the file will show and can be further allocated to existing/new fields in the Labguru collection.

The text editor was updated to the newest version

Equipment was added to the form fields selection

In the API: new endpoints - Add tag, Remove tag from item

New feature - department accounts can be now created from the server report -adding very fast delivery time for this setup

An experiment preview is now available on the project overview page > progress tab, it is shown on hover over the i icon.

Edit stock window now allows to change the stock position in the box

Full structure search is now available in the compounds collection

Bulk-mark tasks as completed from the tasks index page was now added to the tasks index page

New API endpoints:

In the scheduler it is now possible to view the schedule for 2 weeks in advance

Experiment start date now includes also a time picker

The billing page now shows the subscription information

Fixes and enhancements to the new index table design - main new additions to the collections index tables: in-line editing, clear filters, horizontal scrolling.

New API endpoint - Manifest, it will return a list (JSON) of the objects that were updated today (since 00:00 of the day when the request is done).
The path under "export_path" in the manifest can be used to save the pdf and maintain a backup directory.

Fixes and performance improvements

In the scheduler, a new function was added that allows the user to find the next available time slot for the equipment.

In the API - form element data is now part of the JSON

The option to unsubscribe from a stock alert was added

Experiment ID number was added next to the title

New design for the protocols index page

The Workflow editor can now run C# scripts and a new code templates feature was added

The API documentation has been updated-

Updated the spreadsheets element to the latest version

New design for the tasks index page that allows better filtering/viewing options

A new feature in the equipment module that allows to create equipment schedules.

Updates to the compounds module  

New design for the equipment search results when adding to an experiment

Auto-populated tables in form elements - a new option in the ‘Collection’ input field menu to add auto-populated table with columns for each collection field the user wants to display in the form element.

Added an option to add a new vector of data (row) to an existing dataset via the API

New design for the global search results page

Workflow editor - bug fixes, new step "Create Dataset"

Form table - Add multiple rows, delete a row

Equipment module: added feature - add task

Bug fixes

Upgrade to the chemistry module

Updated the EasyEdit app

A new feature: setting time range. This feature allows to plan experiments by setting a time and duration for sections

The WorkFlow editor was updated: a new step was added that allows to run Ruby or Python scripts, a new step to create tasks, new periodic trigger, UI changes.

Updated the EasyEdit app

New feature - maintenance sharing and synchronization among accounts with a department link 

New feature - LabelWizard for equipment 

New design for the import summary page

New feature - an option to copy sections from signed/witnessed experiments to reports