New Release! - MRS 3.5.3.0

MRS 3.5.3.0: tailored action levels, tests on MRS web and finer MRS Web user access controls

A major new version of the Microbiological Reporting System (MRS) is now available. This release adds more control over who can see what, makes Tests easier to create and manage, and improves day-to-day work in Enter Results, Identifications and the web reports.

What’s new

• Per-unit user permissions (MRS Web): Web users can now have different administrative permissions for each unit, rather than one level of access across the board.
• Tailored action levels: The Tailored Alerts Calculator in the Room Editor now supports action levels as well as alert levels, calculated as the average plus three standard deviations. You can accept the new alert, the new action, both, or keep the existing values for each location. Locations with fewer than 10 data points don’t get a suggestion, and an icon explains why.
• Plate image notes: MRS Cube Image Capture now lets you add notes to individual plate images, and these can be viewed in MRS Web.
• License management: A new control panel manages which machines are licensed to access MRS.
• New web views: The Customer Dashboard now shows Kits Awaiting or Returned, the Unit report section includes Unit Maps, and system admins have a global report to search all data for particular growth types. All global reports now sit in one place on the left menu.
• Tests from the web: Tests can now be created in MRS Web and imported. Test Templates can also be assigned to customers, and when you make a Test, only matching Templates and Customers are offered. You can also search for a Template by QC Number or Product Code.
• Test release emails: When a Test is released, every web user set as a “Test Admin” for that customer receives an email with the final result (Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory or Info Only) and a link to download the certificate. Test Admins can now open the Customer Dashboard even without room access, and see the Tests and Kits tabs.

Reports

• The Plate Overview report gains a “Plate Groups Mode” to compare plates in a group, and a “Combined Sessions” option to compare sessions on the same plate. The session drop down now shows only sessions relevant to the selected plate.
• The Plate Failure Rate report can be filtered by plate group.
• The Monthly Report now shows which room version(s) applied during the month.
• The Operator Failure Rates report loads significantly faster, and historical operator data no longer disappears when a unit moves to another customer.
• Exception Reports can link to certain trending reports, and now show comments correctly.

Smoother daily work

• Enter Results: The interface now focuses on the batch drop down when several plate batches are attached (or the Total Count when there’s only one). The scan book-in window opens automatically after the exceptions window closes, and you can jump straight from the exceptions window to the result set.
• Identifications: Marking an identification as analysed now works like Release, with no separate save needed. Emails show the full growth name instead of the code, and “Pending” identifications from unused reads can now be seen.
• Audit trail: Audits now show whether a further identification was added automatically or manually, and when an ID is regenerated and archived. Editing a results further identification also logs the change in identification numbers.
• Release Results: An info icon explains the row colours, and releasing exception reports returns you to the result set.
• Room Editor: You can copy an Instance to the row below with a button or Ctrl + C, and a plate can no longer have multiple Instances assigned.
• Growth Type Manager: New growth types get a default colour, and you’ll see a warning if a chosen colour may be too dark to read on an image.
• Notes: Users can now edit a note made by another user. The edit is audited and the note’s date and time are refreshed.
• Other: Supplier selection has advanced search and filtering, the Customers screen has a button showing which Test Templates are assigned, and the Book-in move incubator form has a cleaner layout. Water testing screens load faster, and the MRS Cube retrieves images and thumbnails more efficiently.

Fixes

• Orders: Expiry Date warnings now show only for the batches selected, and the Frequency must now be chosen before saving, which prevents Orders turning into Back Orders by mistake.
• Tests: Test Names can now be up to 255 characters, completing a Test again records the latest user and date, and slow connections can no longer create duplicate Test Results. Pass/fail criteria in Test Groups are now accepted correctly.
• Enter Results: Result Sets containing only “No Record” results are no longer flagged for Second Read, which previously made them impossible to complete.
• View Results: The notes icon no longer appears where it shouldn’t, and the second read conflict button is available again.
• Book-in: Fixed an error when booking in plates for an earlier room version.
• Web: Rooms flagged “Hidden on Web” no longer appear to admin users, and their data is excluded from Customer and Unit Dashboards and Reports.
• Reopened Exception Reports no longer show as “Open” in the main list after being closed again.

For upgrade guidance or questions, contact support@wjps.co.uk.