This guide is going to review the two features in OpenGround to assist with passing samples to a laboratory or scheduling laboratory tests.
A Chain of Custody for Geotechnical or Geoenvironmental samples is a way to track the movement of samples from the field to the laboratory or any other place. This is managed in a project in OpenGround with the Chain of Custody menu in the Scheduling tab on the main project ribbon.
Don't forget you can use the filters in the interface to filter the grids to make sure you can access the sample you are working with.
You can manage the chain of custody within OpenGround to make sure the data and information stay up to date.
The main ways this information is exported is with the AGS file from the manage interface and export
This data is also able to be expressed in Excel Extension to update clients if they are not able to use the AGS file.
Laboratory Schedules can be part of a chain of custody or they can be set up independently. The laboratory schedule is the schedule of tests to be performed on the samples collected for the project. In OpenGround this can be accessed in a project on the scheduling ribbon.
To create a new schedule for a project you can select the create Schedule. You can have as many schedules for a project as are needed.
Once you have created the schedule it self you need assign which samples are going to be part of this schedule and which tests are required.
This is where you can select the Chain of Custody (COC) or the Location Group you would like to use.
(Don't forget you can filter the data in the samples grid to find the locations and samples you are looking for).
To find out how to manage and set up laboratories for schedules and how to add tests to those labs follow the guide below.