Creating a protocol: basic procedure

VWorks Software User Guide : Creating a protocol: basic procedure

Creating a protocol: basic procedure

Read this section if you are an administrator or technician who writes protocols.

This section contains the following topics:

• About protocols, processes, and tasks

• Workflow for creating a basic protocol

• Preparing for protocol writing

• Adding devices

• Setting up location devices

• Setting up phantom devices

• Creating a new protocol

• Setting protocol options

• Importing and exporting miscellaneous files

• Configuring labware

• Adding processes

• Setting plate parameters

• Adding and deleting tasks

• Specifying time constraints between dependent tasks

• Setting up Startup and Cleanup Protocol processes

• Saving the protocol

• Compiling the protocol

• Simulating the protocol run

• Printing protocols

For details on using macros to help create your protocols, see Using macros to create protocols.