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Resources

Resources are similar to Experiments, but serve a different purpose: listing and organizing things that are used in Experiments.

Many of the options on the Resource entry are the same as those for an Experiment entry.

Resources menu
Resources dropdown menu.

Resource Categories​

Resource Categories can be defined at the team level from the "Resource Categories" page available in the Resources dropdown menu. You can, for example, define categories such as:

  • Antibodies
  • Microscopes
  • Plasmids
  • Drugs
  • Chemicals
  • Equipment
  • Projects

Once you have Resource Categories (which are composed of a name and a color), you can create a Resource Template with that category assigned. This allows you to have several Resource Templates for a given category.

For instance, in the Resource Category "Antibodies", you might want a Resource Template for "Primary Antibody" and one for "Secondary Antibody". It's also fine to keep a one-to-one relationship between Resource Templates and Resource Categories.

Resources default permissions allow anyone from the Team to edit them, but you are free to configure them differently from their Template.

Imports​

Look at the Importing data section to learn how to import your Resources from a spreadsheet file or through the API.

Once you have your Resources present, you can mention them in your Experiments by typing # and their title, and selecting the proposed autocompletion, or use directly the Link system to link them to an Experiment. See Links section.

Furthermore, Resources can be made bookable, see section below.

Booking Resources​

It is possible to use the scheduler (calendar) present on the Scheduler page to book Resources.

Scheduler page
Scheduler page.

Making a Resource bookable​

To book a Resource, it must be made bookable. Resources are not bookable by default.

To make a resource bookable, open its page and click the Modify booking parameters button from the toolbar.

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Toolbar: Modify booking parameters.

Once this parameter has been activated, clicking this same button will redirect you to the scheduler with the resource selected. If you wish to edit parameters later on, click on the top right menu with three vertical dots:

modify booking menu
Modify booking menu.

A modal with various settings opens:

modify-booking-modal
Modify booking modal.

Once all is set, Users can click the Book item button in the toolbar, or select it from the Scheduler page, and click the calendar to drag a booking slot.

book-item-button
Booking in item button.

The scheduler page loads with the selected item:

scheduler selected item
Selected item in the scheduler page.

You can now move on to the Scheduler section to see how to work with your events.