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Bika LIMS 1.2 "ISO 17025 Ready" Available for Download

Up to version 1.1, Bika LIMS still carried many inherited references to Bika Wine, the branch Bika started out as. These have all been removed and the LIMS can now be customised to any lab discipline with even greater ease.

Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Open sourced Bika LIMS 1.2 has been released and is now available for download from Sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145464).

Bika LIMS 1.2 is the latest release of Bika's generic LIMS trunk and is ISO 17025 ready - BBK laboratory, Worcester, South Africa, has already been accredited using Bika Wine 1.2.

Up to version 1.1, Bika LIMS still carried many inherited references to Bika Wine, the branch Bika started out as. These have all been removed and the LIMS can now be customised to any lab discipline with even greater ease.

The Bika LIMS project page has been updated with the 1.2 functional specification earlier, please see: Modifications to Bika LIMS for ISO 17025 accredited labs.

New functionality / Upgrades

Portal content management simplified
Accreditation functionality completed
Statements renamed to Invoices
Jobcards renamed to Worksheets
New identification fields added to analysis request 
Client Reference, Sample Type and Sample Point
Welcome page introduced
Late analyses list linked from late analyses portlet 
Accreditation body logo and details added to laboratory info
Accreditation logo, disclaimers added throughout web site
Laboratory confidence level value data driven from laboratory info
Analyses methods provided as pop-up where analyses are listed
Titration factors and titration volumes added to analyses and worksheets
Measure of uncertainties introduced per analysis and intercept
Two new specialist roles created - verifier and publisher
Sample test data load script - load_sample_data.py
Generic instrument data import tool 
Login portlet added on front page

Modifications required to support Bika Interlab 
Permit analysis parent, sample, to be in 'released' state.

Bugs Fixed
SourceForge tracker issue numbers:

1566324: Logged in page redirected to welcome page.
1573299: LiveSearch - Added permissions to InvoiceLineItem. 
1573083: Status Drop Down - Invoicing
1551957: Contacts not visible to other contacts. Correct local owner role
1566334: Position of 'add new ar' button changed to conform to other forms
1532008: Query results sort order most recent first
1532770: Order default listing correction
1558458: Member discount data driven in messages on AR forms
1538354: SubTotal and VAT calculation on edit AR
1532796: AR edit - allow change of contact

For more information, please visit http://www.bikalabs.com, http://bika.sourceforge.net or e-mail info@bikalabs.com

The Bika Labs Team

BBK accredited using Bika Wine 1.2
http://www.bikalabs.com/article/newsevents/bbk-achieves-iso-17025-accreditation-with-bika-wine-1.2

Modifications to Bika LIMS for ISO 17025 accredited labs
http://www.bikalabs.com/admin/softwarecenter/bikawine/roadmap/1/

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