QBench December 22nd, 2024 Product Release Notes

This release brings customer-driven improvements to QBench—like custom Plate Map templates, enhanced plate management, refined Customer Portal v2 controls, and updated Order Comments—delivering smoother workflows and better usability based on your feedback. Dive in to discover how these new features optimize your QBench experience!

Are you a QBench customer with ideas for new features? We’d love to hear them. Use the "Submit Feedback" link in your user dropdown menu to submit your ideas and vote on feature requests. The requests with the most votes get considered first in our roadmap planning.

What’s New:

Customer Requests (You asked, we delivered!)

• Custom Templates for Plate Loading: Design custom templates to streamline plate setup. See details below.
• Order Comments Custom Action Button: Add a custom action button for Order Comments to send out SNS messages. See details below.
• Edit Sources in Customer Portal: Enable portal users to adjust Sources directly. See details below.
• Source Permissions for Customer Portal v2: Configure granular permissions for Portal users to manage specific Sources. See details below.
• Order Comment SNS Message Notifications: Automatically send SNS notifications for Order comment events. See details below.

Batches

• Custom Templates for Plate Loading: Create and save custom templates for plate setups, supporting personalized workflows and ensuring consistent configurations.

Order Comment Enhancements

• Order Comments Custom Action Button: Adds the option to add custom action buttons for Order comments. This can be used to integrate with 3rd party systems.
• Order Comment SNS Message Notifications: QBench will send SNS notifications for Order Comments. This can be used to integrate with 3rd party systems.

Customer Portal v2

• Edit Sources in Customer Portal: Empowers portal users to edit Sources for their Samples directly, improving data management.
• Source Permissions for Customer Portal v2: Adds granular controls for limiting what Sources can be viewed or managed by portal users, improving security and governance.

Dynamic Worksheets

• Ignore Empty Rows for Rendering in Reports: Allows rendered worksheets to ignore rows with no values in any cell, reducing clutter and ensuring concise Report outputs.

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