Tip #241: Available Options on the Walk-Up Interface in Empower

Welcome back to Get Empowered! In the last Empower tip-of-the-week blog for Empower Chromatography Data System, we continued our series on Walk-Up Interface in Empower and learned how to email results (Tip #240).

In this week’s tip, we will conclude this series and review the options available when configuring the Walk-Up Interface. These options allow the selection of default settings to suit the needs of the laboratory (or any environment) using this interface.

Let’s get started.

Step 1

From the ‘View’ menu there are a variety of dropdown selections (figure 1).

Figure 1

• Systems: Allows the selection of a different system for data acquisition
• Instrument Status: Displays the System Status of the currently selected system
• Real Time Plot: Displays the Run Samples window (there is a user privilege associated with this selection)
• Message Center: Opens the Message Center
• Options: Equivalent to clicking Options button located next to the Run Time
• Properties: Discussed in Steps 2 thru 7.

 Let’s look at the additional options and default settings accessible by selecting Properties:

Step 2

Passwords: Add password protection to the Properties so that users cannot change the defaults (figure 2).

Figure 2

Step 3

Project: Select a project that users would be automatically connected to when they log in (figure 3).

Figure 3

Step 4

System: Select a chromatographic system that users would be automatically connected to when they log in (figure 4).

Figure 4

Step 5

Defaults: Set default values for injection volume, run time, suitability mode and shutdown method amongst others (figure 5).

Figure 5

Step 6

Labels: Change the title of various fields, similar to changing column properties in a table (figure 6).

Figure 6

Step 7

Manage Sequence Name: Add or remove sequences which could be selected when running a previously run Sample Set (figure 7).

Figure 7

 It’s that easy!

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