Labspace Inventory

What is Lab Inventory?

The Inventory allows you to manage materials, processes, and templates which will be used in your LabSpace. LabSpace owners and managers will have access to the Inventory in the left-sidebar. As of now, the Inventory only supports materials management. 

Manage your Materials

In the Materials tab, you can manage any materials in the laboratory, such as Chemicals, Nucleic acids, Animals, Organisms, and Cell lines. Let's see how you can manage materials in the Materials Inventory.  

Register items

1. Click on the Add item button at the top right corner to start registering a new item.
2. There are three main ways to add items.
   • Quick item search
   • Custom items
   • Import items
3. Once you have completed Step 2, the new item(s) will be shown on your screen and registered in your Inventory.

Quick item search

Quick item search provides an easy way for you to search for items that are used in the laboratory. 

1. Click on the Public DB button at the top left corner.
2. Select the category based on the type of search you want to perform.
3. Search for items by entering the product name, product number, supplier, etc.
   • You may use the filter button on the right of the search bar.
4. Choose the item you want to register in your Inventory.
5. After clicking the Add item button, the new items will be shown on your screen and registered in your Inventory.

Custom items

You can also customize the items if you cannot find the materials you want from the Quick item search.

1. By clicking on the Custom items button, you can add a new row.
2. Fill out the row by completing the following fields:
   • A name is required.
   • Note) In the Structure field, SMILES strings are only allowed. Entered strings will allow you to represent the molecule of your item.

Import items

Through the Import items function, you can streamline the registration process via Excel templates for larger volumes of material data.

1. Click on the here button to download the template directly into your device.
2. After you fill in the template sheet with your data, click Upload files to upload it.
3. Finally, click on the Import button to get your bulk items in the Inventory.

Setting up columns

You can manage columns to indicate the additional information of items according to your laboratory’s needs. Use the following steps to add or edit the column.

Add new columns

1. Click on the + button on the right end of the last column.
2. Fill in the blank to give the column a name.
3. Once you enter the name, you can see the new column created on the screen.

Edit columns

1. First, click on the column header.
2. There are three main ways to edit columns:
   • Hide column(s)
   • Rename
   • Delete

Edit items

To edit your items, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Option button on the right side of the item.
2. You can simply modify your item by clicking this button.

Delete items

To delete your items, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Option button on the right side of the item.
2. You can delete items by clicking Permanently Delete button.
   • If an item is deleted from the inventory, you are no longer able to view the information in Labnotes where the item is used and it will appear as a “Deleted item”.
   • Please keep in mind that deleting items can affect any Labnote with a history of them.