QBench Release Notes November 09, 2020 - v2.17.0

What’s New:

Customer Portal:

  • Customer Portal users are now able to download multiple published reports from the Order and Sample list page
  • Customer Portal users are now able to filter by text additional fields on the Order and Order Request list pages

Billing:

  • Users who are not subscribed to Billing can now enter data in the “Invoicing Notes” field on the Order and Customer
  • Users are now able to see the customer’s outstanding balance on the Customer Detail page

Filters:

  • Users are now able to filter by the Order’s “Date Submitted” field on the Order and Test list page
  • Users are now able to filter by the Order’s “Date Created” field on the Order and Test list page

API:

  • Developers can now make a GET request to query all active Documents and Directories
  • Developers can now integrate a “Custom Action” SNS message for Invoices
  • A list of Test IDs are now passed to Order/Sample level report generation SNS messages
  • The ID of the user who triggered an SNS message is now included in the payload
  • Added default report config IDs to Assay JSON response

QoL / Bug Fixes

  • Users are now able to sort by ID on the Invoice list page
  • Equipment Usage tab on the Batch Detail page now shows the first 3 fields of the Equipment field configuration
  • A proper error message is now displayed when a user tries to delete an entity that has already been deleted
  • Fixed issue where Customer Portal users could overwrite uploaded attachments that came from the LIMS
  • Fixed issue with worksheet history entries not displaying the proper worksheet version at the time
  • Various UI/UX fixes and improvements!

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