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Review the latest samples of a series to see whether the water has changed — a routine check, or a follow-up when an alarm fires or a count looks wrong.

Where
Flow Cytometry
Who
ViewerOperatorManagerAdmin

  1. In the left navigation, open Flow Cytometry.

  2. Select Series, then View by location or View by tag, and tick the series you want. One series at a time is easiest to read.

  3. Select the period button and choose a period, for example Last 7 days.

  4. Select the newest sample in Samples. Its details, results and plots open on the right.

  5. Step through the samples:

    • press ↓ and ↑ to move down and up the list;
    • press ← and →, or select the arrows beside Datetime, to go to the previous and next sample of the same series;
    • or select the oldest sample you want to see and select play (, Play through samples). The screen moves one sample a second toward the newest and shows how far it is, for example 4 / 28.

  6. Select pause (, Pause animation), or select any sample, to stop.

Result: the plots and tiles change with each sample, so a change in the water shows as a change in the picture.

What to look for

Section titled “What to look for”
Look at A sign of change
FL1 × FL2 The cloud of events moves, stretches, or a new cluster appears inside or next to the gate.
The gate Part of the population lies outside the outline, or noise lies inside it. The gate may need adjusting — see Edit a gate.
HNAP The HNA share moves by more than it usually does. It often responds earlier than the total count.
TCC or ICC A step up or down between neighboring samples that the process does not explain.
Events and Volume An unusually low number of events or a smaller volume makes the count less reliable.
Warning triangle The instrument reported a problem. Read the warning box at the bottom of the sample.
Gate A different gate or version than the samples around it — the numbers are then not directly comparable.

Plots show movement far better than numbers: play through a few days of samples and watch where the cloud goes.

Rules and limits

Section titled “Rules and limits”
  • The arrow keys work while the page has focus and no dialog is open; they do nothing while you are typing in a field.
  • Play-through stays within the series of the sample you start from and stops at the newest sample on the current page. Changing the series or the period stops it.
  • The list shows 100 samples per page. For a longer series, use the pager under the list or shorten the period.
Section titled “Related”

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