Export CSV/XLSX from Plate Position and Well Position Views: Scispot now allows seamless exporting from both well plate and table views, giving you flexibility in managing your data. Simply click Export, select the desired file type (CSV or XLSX), and download your organized dataset with ease. For example, in a molecular diagnostics lab setting, you can export well position data for assay plates to share with collaborators or import into analysis software for downstream processing. This feature enhances data portability and streamlines reporting.
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Run Jupyter Scripts Directly from Labspace Pages: You can now run Jupyter scripts directly from Labspace pages by clicking the three-dot menu in the top-right corner and selecting Run Jupyter Scripts. This enables data analysis and automation without leaving your experiment or protocol page.
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Redesigned Reference Column Workflow for Experiment Traceability: Scispot's enhanced reference column design brings a more cohesive way to link Labsheet entries between Labsheets. Whether you're connecting therapeutic details with specific experimental results or mapping test conditions to corresponding outcomes, the redesigned workflow ensures seamless navigation. For instance, a drug discovery lab can now link therapeutic compound metadata from one Labsheet directly to assay results in another, providing a clear, traceable relationship. This update simplifies data tracking, reduces errors, and improves collaboration across experiments.
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Expanded Export Options for Your Labsheets: Labsheets now support CSV export alongside xlsx, txt, tsv, and eds formats. Whether you're importing data into another platform, sharing with collaborators, or archiving, CSV ensures easy compatibility with your workflows. Simplify your data management with more flexibility and options tailored to your needs.
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Automatic Parent-Child Sample Linking in Labsheets: Keep your sample relationships organized effortlessly with Scispot's enhanced Labsheet functionality. Now, when you create child samples, parent and child columns are automatically added if not already present. The parent sample is instantly linked to the children's reference column, ensuring clear traceability. This streamlined feature helps you maintain sample lineage, so you'll never lose track of how your samples are connected.
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Streamlined Creation for Labspace Pages and Folders: Create and organize your research documents effortlessly with Scispot's redesigned page creation feature in Labspace. Now conveniently located in the top-right corner, the new button allows you to quickly create folders or pages for your protocols and experiments. Apply templates to maintain consistency and streamline documentation, ensuring your workflows remain efficient and your research well-structured.

Labsheets Enhanced with MRC/PDB File Support: Following implementation into our Labspace pages, Scispot’s Labsheets now support MRC and PDB files, allowing for seamless integration of these complex data formats. Upload these files directly into the Labsheets file column and easily preview them with zoom functionality for detailed views. This enhancement streamlines your data management and analysis, providing you with a more efficient workflow for handling advanced research files.
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Custom Views in Labflows Sample and Order Labsheets: Take control of your data with Scispot’s new customizable Labsheet views in Labflows. Like in Labsheets, you can now create specific views to filter and display only the samples or orders that meet your criteria. such as those that have been Accessioned. This feature helps you stay organized and ensures that you can focus on the most relevant data for your research and operational needs.

Easily Toggle between Labsheet and Dashboard: Effortlessly switch between Labsheet views and your local dashboard with Scispot’s new toggle icon. This intuitive feature allows you to navigate seamlessly between data entry and dashboard insights, helping you maintain focus and stay productive.
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Offline Functionality for Labspace Pages: Scispot now supports enhanced offline functionality for uninterrupted lab operations. When offline, the Labspace page clearly displays “Offline” to keep you informed. Once reconnected, it updates dynamically to “Saved” or “Saving”, ensuring your work is always synchronized. The saving status indicator has also been repositioned for a cleaner, more intuitive interface. Learn more about this feature here.
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Labspace File Embed Flow Enhancement: Enhance your file management with Scispot’s revamped File Embed Flow. Easily upload files to your Labspace by either clicking the new upload area to open the file selector or by utilizing the drag-and-drop feature directly into the upload area. This improvement streamlines the process of integrating files, allowing you to focus more on your research and less on administrative tasks.
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Support for PDB and MRC Files in Labspace Pages: Broaden your research tools with Scispot’s support for PDB (Protein Data Bank) and MRC (cryo-electron microscopy cryoEM and electron tomography ET) files. These formats are now fully supported within the Labspace, enabling them to be displayed, downloaded, and deleted in-page for immediate viewing and analysis. This feature enhances the visualization and manipulation of complex data sets, facilitating a more efficient and integrated workflow for your scientific research.
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Enhanced Tagging Flow for Manifests: Streamline your manifest tagging with Scispot’s new, improved tagging flow. Easily create, name, and manage tags from the top-right toolbar, where you can color-code, rename, add, or delete tags to organize your samples effectively. Assign tags by selecting a well and clicking the tag icon on the floating toolbar, then choose the desired tag. Once tagged, wells are outlined with your selected color, and clicking on a tagged well reveals detailed tagging information on the side. This intuitive flow keeps your manifest clear, organized, and visually informative, simplifying sample tracking at a glance.
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Introducing Knowledge Base: Easily access and manage essential biotech knowledge with Scispot’s Knowledge Base, a centralized hub for protocols, procedures, and insights. This feature streamlines knowledge sharing across teams, enabling quick access to critical information, driving collaboration, and keeping your workflows connected and informed. Read more here.
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Sign-Off Flow for Protocols: Ensure protocol accuracy and secure your data with Scispot’s Sign-Off Flow. After completing a protocol, you can choose to automate inventory and sign off the protocol, either on your own or by assigning another user as a reviewer. In signing off, you lock the protocol to prevent future edits. Sign-off can also be done anytime from the top menu, and embedded protocols in experiments will remain view-only, keeping data consistent across projects.
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Assign Samples and Orders to Batches from Labflows Dashboards: Streamline lab operations with the ability to assign samples and orders directly to new or existing batches from Labflows dashboards. This feature enables seamless management of samples and orders, ensuring they are efficiently linked to batches without the need for additional steps, helping you maintain an organized and efficient workflow.
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Well Position View in Manifest: Enhance your manifest handling with the newly added well position view, which complements the traditional table format. This new feature provides a plate-like layout, allowing you to visualize sample positions directly as they appear in the well plate. It’s an intuitive addition that makes it easier to manage and track samples in a way that mirrors their real-world arrangement, improving clarity in your workflows.
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Color Coding and Merging Cells in Labspace Page Embeds: We've enhanced your ability to manage data in Labspace pages with new color coding and cell merging features. Now, selecting multiple cells using Shift allows you to merge them easily with a simple right-click. Additionally, a floating toolbar appears when selecting cells while pressing Control or Shift, enabling quick access to formatting options like text color and background color. These updates make it easier to customize and organize your data, providing greater flexibility in how you present information.
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New Sample and Order Dashboards in Labflows: Stay on top of your operations with the new sample and order dashboards in Labflows. Effortlessly navigate through three distinct views—Samples, Orders, and Batches. These dashboards provide quick access and allow you to add new entries directly, linking samples, orders, and batches as needed to maintain organized workflows.
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New API on Manifests: Accessing your manifest data is now smoother than ever with our newly introduced API. This enhancement ensures seamless integration with your existing workflows by enabling efficient interaction with manifest tables. Whether you need to extract data, automate processes, or perform complex manipulations, this API unlocks new possibilities for streamlined operations and improved data handling.
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Inline References in Labspace Pages: We've introduced a new way to enrich your documentation – simply use the "@" sign to add an inline reference to any Labspace page, Labsheet, Labsheet entry, or user. This enhancement allows you to interlink data within your labspace pages effortlessly, promoting better navigation and data traceability. By referencing relevant elements directly in your content, you streamline data accessibility and enhance collaboration within your team.
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Color-Coded Status Column in Labsheets: Organizing your labsheets is now more intuitive with the new color-coded status column. This feature introduces a visual cue to quickly identify the status of each entry, ensuring that your team can assess progress at a glance. Whether it’s tracking sample status, task completion, or review stages, this enhancement provides a more user-friendly way to manage your data.
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New Plate View in Manifest: Introducing the new plate view in manifests for both creation and loading processes. The analysis tab now presents a detailed table view with comprehensive metadata information about the plate. This enhancement allows for a more organized and insightful overview of your plate data, making it easier to conduct analysis and track experiment details.
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Enhancement to AI Widget: The AI Widget just got smarter! You can now search for and visualize any Labsheet within seconds. This improvement streamlines data retrieval, allowing you to access crucial information without navigating through multiple pages. With this enhancement, managing and analyzing your labsheets has never been more convenient. Equipment management has been transformed with the introduction of Gantt Chart visualizations as well, allowing you to visualize equipment schedules and utilization over time, providing a clearer picture of your lab operations. Planning and resource allocation become more efficient, minimizing scheduling conflicts and optimizing equipment usage.
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Bulk Update in Labsheets: Save time with the new bulk update feature! Now, you can update multiple entries in a labsheet simultaneously. This capability is perfect for labs managing large datasets or needing to make quick edits across numerous entries. With just a few clicks, you can apply changes across selected rows, boosting productivity and reducing repetitive tasks.
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Introducing Updated Labspace Embeds: We’re excited to announce the latest updates to our Labspace embeds, designed to enrich your lab's functionality and streamline your workflow. With these enhancements, you can seamlessly integrate various data sources, visualizations, and analytical tools directly into your Labspace, providing a cohesive and efficient research environment.

This update ensures that all embeds are fully optimized for performance and usability, making it easier than ever to access critical information at a glance. For a comprehensive overview of all the supported embeds and how they can elevate your lab operations, check out our official article. Embrace the power of integration and elevate your research today!
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Enhanced Control over Destinations of Cloned Protocols: Gain more flexibility with your cloned protocols. Now, when you clone a protocol, you can assign its destination to a specific Labspace and experiment. This added control streamlines protocol management, allowing you to organize and access your protocols in the most relevant workspace, boosting efficiency in your lab operations.
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Side Panel Display for Order Registration, Sample/Order Details: Keep track of your orders and samples effortlessly with the new right-side panel display. Order registration details now appear in a convenient side panel, along with sample and order specifics in the same format. This enhancement simplifies data access and provides a quick overview of essential details, improving your workflow’s clarity and speed.
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Self Check-Out in Labsheets 2.0: Manage your inventory efficiently with the new 'Self Check-Out' feature. Input the quantity of the selected items you wish to check out directly into the labsheet, and it updates instantly. This real-time check-out process provides a smoother experience, ensuring your inventory remains accurate without the need for manual adjustments.

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Click on Labsheet Titles to Open in Labflows: Effortlessly navigate through your workflows with the new Labflows update. Now, when working within a Batch, simply click on the Labsheet title (e.g., Sample Manager) to open the associated labsheet instantly. This improvement speeds up your data access, making it easier to manage samples and records without extra steps.
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Improvements to Labspace Activity Logs: Logs will now clearly indicate when protocols or experiment pages have been locked or unlocked, providing you with better control over your workflow. In addition, we've improved the language throughout the logs to be more intuitive and user-friendly. Say goodbye to cluttered entries—redundant logs like "preparing protocol" have been eliminated, so you can focus on the information that truly matters.
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This streamlined approach simplifies your experience, making it easier to understand your activity history at a glance. With these improvements, managing your lab activities becomes more straightforward and efficient, enabling you to concentrate on your research with confidence.
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Assign Result Samples to Existing and New Labflow Batches: Simplify your workflow by assigning result samples from your Labflow to existing or new Labflow batches. With order and sample registration fields automatically prepopulated, you can save time and minimize errors during batch creation.

Tailored for labs handling multiple experiments or reprocessing samples, this feature ensures a smooth transition from one Labflow to the next without repetitive data entry. Just select the result samples, assign them to the relevant batch, and the system does the rest. This automation helps streamline your operations, allowing you to focus more on analysis and less on administrative tasks.
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Assign Standards, Blanks, and Controls to Manifests: Enhance the consistency of your experiments by assigning standards, blanks, and controls directly into your manifest along with your samples. No need to leave the page—add these essential components in just a few clicks to ensure your experiments meet quality standards every time.

Whether you're setting up a standard curve for a BCA assay or incorporating positive and negative controls for a qPCR run, this feature simplifies your setup while maintaining rigorous data integrity. It’s an easy way to ensure reliability and accuracy in all your experiments.
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Templatize Manifest Analysis Tab: Streamline your data entry process with our new templated manifest analysis tab. You can now effortlessly add data directly into the analysis tab of your template manifests, eliminating the need for manual entry each time. This enhancement not only saves you time but also reduces the risk of errors, allowing you to focus on what truly matters: your research. Experience a seamless workflow as you populate your analyses quickly and efficiently.
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Introducing Automatic ID Generation in Labflows: Say goodbye to the hassle of manual ID creation with our new automatic ID generation feature for Order Registration and Sample Registration. This innovation ensures that every order and sample is assigned a unique identifier without any extra effort on your part. By automating this process, you can enhance organization and traceability in your Labflows, making it easier to manage samples and orders as your projects grow.
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Generate Printable Barcodes for Samples in Sample Registration: Simplify your sample management with the ability to generate printable barcodes during sample registration. Choose from ZPL and PDF formats, and create both 1D and 2D barcodes tailored to your needs. This feature facilitates easy tracking and identification of samples, ensuring a more organized and efficient lab environment. With just a few clicks, you can produce high-quality barcodes that enhance your workflow and improve sample handling.
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Enhanced PDF Downloads with Protocol Specifications: We've improved the clarity of your activity logs by now including specific protocol names in the PDF downloads. Each download now clearly indicates which protocol is being prepared, allowing you to easily reference the relevant methodologies and ensure consistency across your experiments.
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You can now quickly identify the protocols associated with your data, whether you're preparing for an ELISA, RT-PCR, or any other assay. With these explicit references, you can streamline your workflow and maintain accurate records of your experimental processes. Enjoy greater transparency and efficiency in your documentation, ensuring that every aspect of your research aligns with established standards.
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Location Breadcrumb Trails Now Include Manifest Well Coordinates: Track your samples with ease using the new breadcrumb trail feature in Scispot. Now, the Location field shows the exact well coordinates of your samples, so you can instantly navigate to their position in the manifest directly from your Labsheet—without any extra steps.
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Perfect for assays like flow cytometry or cell-based experiments, this feature ensures you never lose track of where your samples are stored. Simply click on the Location and you’ll be taken straight to the manifest with your sample highlighted. This makes sample tracking and retrieval faster and more accurate, streamlining your workflow.
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Scroll Zoom Disabled for Enhanced User Experience: Navigating your manifest well plates and sample boxes just got easier in Scispot! We’ve now disabled scroll zoom on all embedded manifest well plates and boxes. This update enhances user experience by preventing unintentional zooming when scrolling through your experiment page, helping you maintain focus on your experiments without unnecessary adjustments.
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To zoom in or out, you can now use the "+" and "–" buttons conveniently located in the bottom left corner of the well plate.

Working Samples Creation from Embedded Labsheets: Streamline your lab work with the ability to create working samples—such as aliquots or derivatives—right from your experiment’s labsheet. No need to switch tabs or pages. Simply select your sample, and within a few clicks, generate the exact child samples you need for downstream experiments.
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This feature is perfect for aliquoting samples for assays like qPCR, ELISA, or creating derivatives for further analysis, making sample management quicker and more intuitive.
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Add Samples from Manifest with Auto Layout: Now, you can seamlessly add samples directly from your manifest without interrupting your workflow. Click the add icon, select your samples from the labsheet, and use the Auto Layout feature to arrange them on your 96-well or 384-well plate.
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You can choose horizontal or vertical orientations for automatic layout, ensuring precise organization for high-throughput screening, PCR setups, or other key assays. This saves time and ensures consistent plate preparation.

Create Replicates or Working Samples with Ease: The Create Replicates feature lets you generate working samples directly from the manifest. Just select the parent sample, set the number of working samples, and specify how much of the parent sample to use. This is ideal for generating consistent aliquots for parallel assays like Western blots, flow cytometry, or other repetitive workflows, ensuring precision and consistency with minimal effort.
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To do that switch to the "Create Replicates" mode, select the parent sample, and specify the number of replicates you'd like to create. Additionally, you can control how much of the parent sample to consume for each working sample.

New Dashboard Design and Functionality: We’ve redesigned the global dashboards to be even more intuitive and customizable. Now, each panel is a widget that you can easily add, move, or remove to tailor the dashboard exactly to your needs.

Scibot Just Got Smarter: Your trusty friend Scibot is now even more intuitive. Whenever you navigate to a specific location within the platform—whether it’s the global dashboard, a labspace, or a particular experiment—Scibot will offer dynamic prompts tailored specifically to where you are. It’s like having a helpful guide by your side, ready with just the right suggestions.

Archiving Labspaces and Labspace Templates: You can now archive just about anything in your Labspaces—whether it's entire lab spaces, folders, subfolders, and documentation, or even specific experiments, protocols, and their templates. The archiving possibilities are endless!

Global Search Improvements: You can now find data in Scispot even faster. We’ve made it easier to search and locate samples, inventory, or experiments!

CLARIOstar-specfic Manifest Export: Using a CLARIOstar plate reader in your lab? Now you can export your well plates in .xslx format with required fields, making them directly compatible for your instrument input.

Added Precision to Manifest Activity Logs: If you are adding, assigning, moving, un-assigning, or deleting a sample, know about it! Filter and download your activity log too.

New Filtering by Tags Popup Design in the Template Library: Organise your experiment and protocol templates by team, project, or partner labs using tags.

Labspace Page Redesign: We always aim to build a platform with the most modern look and feel. Introducing the new design for labspace pages!

Never miss out on functionality, find all of your common actions in the three-dot menu.

Tag Empty Manifest Wells and/or Boxes: If you want to create colourful placeholders for your standards, controls, or samples, you can now tag empty wells as well as locked wells in your manifests. You can even do this in manifest templates for repeatable layouts!

Archiving Labspaces, Folders, and Pages: You asked and we delivered! Archive labspaces, folders, and/or pages to clean up your workspace. See how below:

Even More Filtering Options in Labsheets: Did you think we were done? Now you can filter Location and Checkbox columns too!

Templatize your Assays by Adding Manifest Templates Inside of Labspace Templates: Want to know how? Watch the video below.

More Filtering Options in Labsheets: No more typing out fields for List and Unit type columns, simply select the option from the dropdown menu and filter.

New Labspace Template Library: We believed it was time for an upgrade! Featuring enhanced tags, sorting, and searching.

More Flexibility in Labsheet Dashboards: Drag and drop your widgets, resize them, and more! + Improved UI

Individual Item Details Page in Labsheets: If you ever need to see the full item details, or send an item reference to a colleague, simply copy the link from the right panel and paste it to see a brand-new dedicated screen. (You can also expand the right panel!)

No-Code Dashboard Analytics: Generate customizable graphs and dashboards based on your labsheets quickly and easily!

New Item Details Panel in Labsheets: If you ever need to see all details for a certain labsheet entry at once (or edit!) click on the purple arrow beside the entry's checkbox to open the right panel.

Import PDF Files to Create Labspace Templates: Do you have a PDF of a protocol or experiment? No need to copy and paste, simply use Scispot's new import feature from the Template Library, powered by Scibot.

Bulk Update Feature in Labsheets: Need to update text and/or number columns for multiple rows at once? Check out the bulk update feature in the floating toolbar of labsheets. See it in action in the video below.

Manifest Activity Log: Who assigned samples to the well plate? When did they add a tag? Which sample was deleted? All of this and more in our new manifest activity logs, at the general + sample level in all wells and boxes. See it in action in the video below.

Better Visibility in Protocol Step Metadata: Now you can easily identify the difference between placeholders and entered metadata values.

Added a Metadata Counter for Protocol Steps: No need to open the metadata panel to see how many entries you have, simply refer to the small counter at the protocol step level!

PDF File Preview in Labspaces: Would you like to preview your attached PDF files before downloading them? Simply click on the embedded file to do so!

New Amazon Redshift Integration in GLUE: Sync your Scispot Labsheets to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Find out more here.

Auto-saved Start and End Times in Protocol Step Metadata Boxes: Do you need to indicate the precise time without even looking at your watch? Just select the Start and/or End time fields and click "Update".

Added Output Inventory to Inventory Audit Labsheet: Now, you can see the date and time as well as the Output Addition Quantity from any protocol where Inventory Automation was triggered in Scispot's Inventory Audit Trail Labsheet.

New UI for Activities on Dashboard: Interested to see what your team is doing within Scispot? Flip through the Activities using the new Previous and Next buttons.

New Version History Tracker Added to all Labspace Pages: Did you make a mistake and Ctrl-z isn't doing the trick? Restore the previous version of your labspace page using this new feature.

Lots of New Request Manager Improvements:

Drag and drop Labspace page sections: Do you want to easily move any Labspace page section to a different location on the page? Now you can!

New Sequence Column in Labsheets: Create or upload your DNA, RNA, Oligo, or Protein Sequences directly in Labsheets with the new Sequence Data column!

Enabled Drag and Fill to Reference Columns: Do you need to apply the same reference to multiple entries? Now you can drag and fill reference-type column cell entries to other rows below!

New /page Modal in Labspaces: Embed any Labspace page into another one with a sleek new UI and pagination!

Updated Headers in Labsheet Pages: Labsheets, Locations, Manifests, and JupyterHub, all interconnected!

New Archiving Labsheets Flow: Would you like to de-clutter your Labsheets list? You can now archive Labsheets that your team no longer uses.

Protocol Step Toggle: If you want to only see the names of your embedded protocols inside your experiment pages, just flip the toggle!

Improved Labsheets Reference Column Pop-up Size: Were you having trouble connecting references within your Labsheets? No problem, we've made the pop-up bigger!

Improved Favorited Labsheets: We have removed Favorites from within Labsheet Folders. Find ALL your favorite Labsheets on the Labsheets homepage.

New Changelog Banner on Dashboard: Did you notice the new banner on your dashboard today? Easily navigate to the Changelog every Monday for your weekly Scispot updates.

New Global Search Design: Any screen, any time. Use Ctrl + / to open the new global search modal to find anything in the platform.

Improved S8 Tablet Responsive: Do you have a tablet in the lab? Easily use Scispot on it to record experimental results and deviations.

New Manifest UI: Easier to use and super sleek to match our Labsheets design. Assign your inventory or samples to boxes or wells in style!

New UI for Embedded Sheets, Labsheets, and Google Drive Links: Tired of having sheets or Labsheets clutter your Labspace pages? Now you can easily expand and collapse, or maximize them for a full-page view.

Disabled Spell Checker-generated red underlines for certain keywords in Labspaces pages: Now common scientific language will no longer get flagged as incorrect by your browser.

New Embedded Protocol UI in Labspace pages: No more dropdowns! Pick your protocol templates or create blank protocols with ease using our new modal.

Added Link for Scispot's Help Center to Left Navigation Menu: Have a question, need some help or just wanna chat? Find help articles and training videos in a few clicks.

Undo and Redo Buttons in Labsheets: Did you make a mistake? Use Ctrl-Z or our new undo and redo buttons to fix it.

New "Add Column" Modal: Add new columns to your Labsheets with a stylish new UI.

Download the Activity Log in PDF-Ready Document Feature in Experiment Pages: Did you want to include your team's Activity Log when printing or downloading Experiment pages? Now you can!

Creating pages inside Labspaces, Folders, and Subfolders:

Listing Pages inside a Destination:

New Video Library!

The Labspace page Activity Log has a new look and feel: Track all changes to your Experiment and Protocol pages. Download or print the log for audit purposes.

Customizable Metadata Boxes: Personalize metadata boxes within each protocol step. This means adding specific details like start and end times to one step without affecting others or different protocols.

Improved Look of Completed Protocols and Protocol Steps: No more annoying strikethrough!

New Move Location UI within Labsheets: Assign your samples or inventory to locations with style!

Improved PDF-Ready Document flow for your labspace pages: Choose Protocols, Labsheets, Manifests, Sheets, and Images to be included in your Experiment or Protocol pages.

Added folder breadcrumb to Labsheets homepage: When using Global Search in Labsheets, no more wondering what folder your Labsheet belongs to!

Enhanced OPTIONS Call: Previously, the OPTIONS call returned all available verbs even those that were not supported. With the new update, it now returns only supported actions, ensuring clarity and consistency in API interactions.

Improved Error Handling: Making requests to incorrect endpoints or paths now results in a 404 error code along with the appropriate response, aiding developers in debugging and troubleshooting.

Input Validation: Input payload keys are now rigorously validated, providing developers with precise error codes and responses, thereby streamlining the development process.

Endpoint URL Separation: Each endpoint now has a separate URL, eliminating ambiguity. For instance, the 'labsheets/list' endpoint previously served two operations: 'list' and 'get_schema'. This separation enhances clarity and maintainability.