Dear Patrick,
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Patrick van der Wel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like the way you can specify the experiment details, such as spectrometer
> and probe that were used. Unfortunately, it seems you have to re-configure
> the list of these items (probes, spectrometers, etc) for each individual
> project. Can you set this up to be shared among different projects? Is there
> a way to export/import the info?
The information is indeed stored separately for each project, and we have
no particular I/O function. Maybe we could make one. In the standard setup
we have only three levels of sharing: project-specific, global reference
(like NmrExpPtototype or ChemComps) or user-specific (for the
AnalysisProfile only). The data model supports having multiple files in
different locations for different kinds of information, but we removed
that facility for analysis - nobody ever used it and everybody was
confused. There are things we could do, but we would have to think. What
would make more sense:
- An import mechanism to duplicate a file in another location?
- A single file, and should it then be user-specific, department-specific
(like global reference data), lab-specific (something in between)?
- Multiple files, so yo could ahve stabndard ones and your own ones as
well? The main problem is where to locate teh file, and how to make sure
new projects can find it without tedious user intervention.
> Also, the way the pulldown menus work right now, the probes are not tied to a
> particular spectrometer (see attached figure). Would it not make sense to
> specifically link these together and have the probe/spec selection reflect
> this?
That would require a data model change. Is it general that each probe can
only be used for one spectrometer? I woul hav thought that at least some
labs might move probes between different machines.
>
> One final thing: it seems to me that the 'propagate experimental details'
> works the other way around from how the 'propagate experiment type' function
> works. If you select one spectrum first, and then select the others holding
> shift, one of the functions propagates with the initial one as the source of
> the information and the other uses the last selected one as the source (as
> far as I can tell). This is a bit confusing..
'propagate experiment type' only works if all experiment types in the
selection are identical or unset. That can work because it is a single
piece of information we are propagating, and it measn the order you click
in does not matter. 'propagate experimental details' propagates from the
selected experiment (which is the last one clicked), to all the others.
The only alternative I can see here is to set source and target in
separate operations. I agree it is a bit confusing. No guarantees that we
would change it, but what do you think would be a good way for ti to work?
Yours,
Rasmus
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