Finding a Free Location

If you want to store a sample you can easily find a free location by clicking on the Search free location button in the inventory browser. Highlight the storage location in the navigation tree by selecting the storage unit in which you want to store a sample and click on the Search Free Location button

Find (consecutive) free location(s)

Enter the number of consecutive free positions to you want to find. You can narrow your search in the storage unit by selecting one or more sub-compartments in which you want to store your samples. Currently it is only possibly to identify free positions in a sample container as segments are not limited to the number of available positions.

Use of heatmap

You may use the heatmap to get a birds-eye-view of a complete storagunit and its space utilization. Green colors represent empty spaces, yellow filled spaces. Red colors represent (near) full spaces.