Get Empowered: Empower User Question | Tip #226, Viewing Signed Off Results
Tip #226: Empower User Question: Viewing Signed Off Results with View Filter in Empower
Welcome back to Get Empowered! In the last Empower tip-of-the-week blog for Empower Chromatography Data System, we learned how to perform Glycan analysis using the GPC option for Empower. (Tip #225).
In this week’s tip, we will answer an Empower user question regarding determining which Results have been Signed Off.
Q: How can I see if a Result has been Signed Off?
Great question. This can be done with a View Filter. (Refer to Tips #166-169 & 172 for details on creating View Filters).
Let’s get started.
Step 1
An easy way of knowing if a result has been Signed Off is to create a ‘View Filter’ which includes the ‘Number of Sign Offs’ field (figure 1).

Figure 1
Step 2
Create an informative View Filter on the Sign Offs tab, click ‘Edit View’ (figure 2).

Figure 2
Step 3
Add the following fields: ‘Sign Off Reason,’ ‘Number of Sign Offs,’ and ‘Processing Locked’ (figure 3).

Figure 3
Step 4
In this example, both ‘Sign Off Level 1’ and ‘Sign Off Level 2’, neither are locked (figure 4).

Figure 4
Step 5
If your Sign Off was completed using an ‘Individual Report’ Method, right click on a Result, select ‘View As, Sign Offs’ and only the Sign Offs associated with that Result will be displayed (figure 5).

Figure 5
Step 6
If your Sign Off that was completed using a ‘Summary Report’ method, right click on a Result, select ‘View As, Sign Offs’ and the ‘Results Signed Off’ in the Summary Report will be displayed (figure 6).

Figure 6
Step 7
You can create a View Filter to specifically display either ‘Sign Off Level 1’ or ‘Sign Off Level 2’ by adding a condition in the ‘Sign Off Reason’ field (figure 7).

Figure 7
Step 8
The Sign Off table now displays all Results with a ‘Sign Off Level 2’ (figure 8).

Figure 8
It’s that easy!
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