It is recommended that configuration be routinely backed up before making significant changes, allowing it to be restored if anything goes wrong.
Step 1
Select the Configuration option from the main menu, followed by the History sub-option.
Step 2
Select Export Configuration to File from the action bar.
The Export Configuration Settings form should appear.
Step 3
Set one or more of the individual toggles to Yes to include those functional areas in the configuration backup. The available areas are described below:
- Configuration: Includes forms, direct and culture test definitions (excluding tables and options), label definitions and general settings.
- Lists: Includes tables and options.
- Coding: Includes organism lists, antibiotics, breakpoints, test patterns and alerts.
- Quality Control: Includes IQC profile definitions.
- Export Profiles: Include export profile definitions.
- Language: Includes all language customisations, except those that are part of table options.
Select Retrieve Export to download the selected configuration items as a coded text file. A brief browser notification will confirm that config_export.txt has been downloaded to your Downloads folder. This file should be stored securely for potential configuration recovery.