Analysis Profiles: the shortcut labs actually use

Almost every lab has a set of tests it runs together. Drinking water sends the same panel. Blood chemistry runs the same core screen. Soil analysis groups the standard metals. Selecting them one by one on every sample is tedious and error-prone.

Analysis Profiles are SENAITE’s answer. A Profile is a named bundle of Analysis Services. Select it on a sample, and every service in the bundle is added at once.

Where they live

Profiles are set up under Setup, Analysis Profiles. Each Profile has a name, a description, and a list of services. Optionally: an associated price, an accreditation flag, and a default sample type.

Where they save time

At sample reception, staff pick “Drinking water standard” from a dropdown instead of ticking twelve boxes.

For pricing, a Profile can carry its own price that overrides the sum of the individual services. Useful when the lab offers a discount for the bundled panel.

On the report, results can be grouped by the Profile they came from, which is how the customer thinks about them anyway.

The trap

A Profile that’s almost right encourages people to select it and then add or remove one service. Do that often enough and you end up with hundreds of “custom” samples that were supposed to be routine. Either the Profile matches the workflow exactly, or it shouldn’t exist.

Two rules keep Profiles healthy. Name them for the customer’s need (“Drinking water full screen”) not the lab’s internal shorthand. And prune them once a year. Anything unused in six months goes.