Identifying Organism Scoping
There a multiple scenarios that allow for organisms to be selected:
- Add / Edit Cultures
- Add / Edit Breakpoints
- Add / Edit Test Patterns
- Add / Edit Alerts
- Add Organism to organism group
This article will describe the process of Organism Scoping. Some of these scenarios use a modified version of the Organism Scoping mechanism however this does not change the underlying system.
Organism Scoping can be identified through the presence of a dropdown for Order, Genus, Organism Group or a Full Organism Search button as shown in the image above. Not all of these items must be present for the mechanism to be considered an Organism Scoping mechanism. Only 1 (one) of the selection methods should be used at a time.
Order
The Order selection mechanism is a collection of cascading searchable dropdown boxes. Once an Order has been selected, a Family dropdown will appear.
Only matching organisms will appear within the dropdowns, for example: only Species that have the Salmonella Genus will appear in the Species dropdown list.
Genus
The Genus scoping mechanism is a limited version of the Order scoping mechanism. Both work in the same way, however the Genus scoping mechanism starts at the Genus level and the dropdown list contains all Genera in the system. The subsequent Species dropdown list will be filtered to the Species for the selected Genus.
Organism Group
The Organism Group scoping mechanism is different from the other scoping mechanisms as by default it allows for multiple organisms to be scoped in once. All organisms that are within the group will be scoped using this mechanism.
Full Organism Search
The Full Organism Search scoping mechanism allows for keywords to be used to search for the desired organism. The Full Organism Search is also the only scoping mechanism that allows for searching using synonyms and preferred names of organisms. For information on how to use the Full Organism Search, see: Running a Full Organism Search.