With the Item overview function you can get an overview of all hybridizations, extracts, samples, annotations, raw data sets, etc. that are related to a given item. The overview includes a lot of checks that validates the data for missing or possibly incorrect information.
You can access the overview for an item by navigating to the single-item view of the item you are interested in. Then, switch to the Overview tab that is present on that page. Here is an example of what is displayed:
The page is divided into three sections:
To the left is a tree displaying all items that are related to the current item.
The lower right shows a list of warnings and error messages that was found when validating the data. In the example you can see that we have failed to specify a value for the Temperature protocol parameter for one of the samples.
The upper right shows information about the currently selected item in the tree. This part also contains more information errors or warnings for this item. It may also present you with one or more suggestions about how to fix the problem and with a link that takes you to the most probable location where you can fix the error or warning.
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Click on the Validation options dialog.
button in the toolbar to open theThe validation procedure is highly configurable and you can select what you want to ignore, or something should be displayed as an error or warning.
The list contains predefined and user defined validation options. Use the
button to save the current options as a user defined preset. The button is used to remove the currently selected preset. Predefined presets cannot be deleted.The options in this section are used to check if your experiment uses the same values as set by the project default values of the currently active project (see Section 7.2, “Projects”). If no project is active or if the active project does not have default values these options are ignored.
The options in this section are used to check if you have specified values for optional items. For example, there is an option that warns you if you have not specified a protocol.
The options in this section are used to check problems related to annotations. The most important ones are listed here:
The options in this section are used to check if you do not have access (read permission) to an item in the experiment hierarchy. If this happens the validation cannot proceed in that branch. This might mask other validation problems.
This section collects options that does not fit into any of the other sections. The most important options are:
Click on the
button to use the current settings. The display will automatically refresh itself.The overview includes a function that allows you to quickly fix most of the problems found during the validation. The easiest way to use the function is: