Developing Bika LIMS
Currently Maintained for historic purposes onlyBika Open Source LIMS code is being re-engineered as Senaite for better maintainability and performance, under a more equitable brand and structure. The Bika Collective contributes generically acceptable code to the Senaite repos, and publishes lab discipline specific releases here as Bika Senaite add-ons.
Thank you for your patience. Team Bika
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Before beginning, you will need to install a some tools and create a development copy of the source.
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The introduction of analyses results into Bika LIMS can be performed manually, but also automatically by using the results files generated directly by equipment or middleware software.
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Bika includes plone.jsonapi for reading, updating, and creating and deleting objects. The JSON API is used internally for many AJAX requests, and also for implementing alternative interface.
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The results report appearance can be modified easily modifying its template and by using TAL expressions.
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Bika uses zope.i18n and gettext to translate strings. This is the Plone standard, and the process is adapted from several Plone add-ons.
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If you are installing a clustering setup with multiple ZEO servers, the content IDs generated by Bika will need to be unique among all servers. This article describes how to set-up an ID Server.
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If you want to create a new JavaScript feature for a specific view, is better to use an specific JS file for each one avoiding to modify other views.
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How to test with your preferred browser.