Opening the Inventory Editor

About this topic

This topic explains the two ways you can open the Inventory Editor:

•	Opening from the Tools menu

•	Opening from within a protocol

Read this topic if your lab automation system has an incubator or random-access storage device, such as the Labware MiniHub.

Before you start

Before opening the Inventory Editor, make sure you have installed and configured a MySQL database, and connected to the database. For instructions, Connecting to the inventory database.

Each labware entry in the inventory database is associated with a storage location. To view the contents of the inventory database, you must first open the relevant device file and initialize the devices.

Opening from the Tools menu

To open the Inventory Editor from the Tools menu:

In the VWorks window, select Tools > Inventory Editor.

 

Opening from within a protocol

To open the Inventory Editor from within a protocol:

1	In the protocol, select a Load or Unload task.

2	Click Storage Load in the Task Parameters area.

3	Do one of the following:

•	In the Locations tab, click Edit location groups.

•	In the Groups tab, click Edit plate groups.

 

Related information

 

For information about...	See...
Connecting to the inventory database	Connecting to the inventory database
Inventory groups, plate groups and location groups	About inventory groups
Moving labware in and out of a storage device	• Adding labware information in the inventory database • Removing labware information from the inventory database • Moving labware between storage devices
Incubating labware	Using a plate group to process labware
Using barcode input files	Creating a plate group with a barcode input file