Saving The Plate Document - Applied Biosystems 7900HT User Manual

Chapter 4 Operating the Instrument

Saving the Plate Document

User Access
Requirement
Saving the Plate
Document for
Single Plate
Operation
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If using the SDS Enterprise Database, you must belong to the Scientist or
Administrator User Group to save a plate document to the database.
Before the plate document can be run, you must save it to the SDS Enterprise
Database or as an SDS 7900HT Document (*.sds).
To save as an SDS 7900HT Document:
1. In the SDS software, select File > Save As.
2. In the Look in field of the Save As dialog box, navigate to and select a directory
for the software to receive the new file.
3. In the File name field either:
• Enter a file name for the plate document file, or
• Enter or scan the bar code number for the plate into the field.
The SDS software does not require that the file name match the bar code
Note:
of the corresponding plate.
4. Click .
The software saves the plate document to the specified directory.
5. Run the plate document and associated plate as explained on
To save to the SDS Enterprise Database:
1. Select File > Save Document to Database.
2. Configure the Save Document to Database dialog box:
a. In the Comment field, enter a brief description of the plate document
(up to 255-characters).
If saving a plate document file to the database, you will loose the file name
unless you enter it into the Comments field.
b. Click
3. In the Saved Document dialog box, click
4. Run the plate document and associated plate as explained on
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