Reference: L7|ESP Quick Start Guide

Users should login to their ESP environment using the link provided by their organization

Viewing Window – main, middle portion of the screen, displays all ESP applications user has access to view

Recent Activity – lower, left-hand corner of the screen, allows user to quickly return to viewed pages/resources, e.g., Experiment Worksheet, Project, etc.

Key Metrics – middle portion of the lower screen, provides quick overview of instance metrics

Shortcuts – lower, right-hand corner of the screen, links to common pages/actions performed in ESP

Apps Tray/Main Menu – blue arrow icon located in the top navigation bar/far-left corner, opens the “Apps Tray” which provides quick access to ESP apps listed on the Home page (users will only see what they have access to view), along with user’s Recent Activity

App name – capitalized white text located in the top navigation bar/left side, displays specific ESP name of the app the user is currently viewing

ESP header icons (see screenshot below) – images in top right bar provide quick access to the following:

Entities – objects or resources that can be run through a scientific process

They are instances of Entity Types, for example Potential Donors and Whole Blood, which can be organized into Entity Classes, such as Patients and Samples

All Samples are Entities, but not all Entities are Samples

Filters panel – located on left side of the screen, this panel displays resource attributes that can be used to filter resources displayed in the viewing window

Viewing window – main, middle potion of the screen, complete list of active resources managed by the app the user is currently viewing

Inspector panel – located on the right side of some app screens, this panel displays a summary of selected resource’s details such as tags, time stamps, and linked resources

When user is on Entity details page, users may select the “Parents & Children” tab to see what relationship, if any, the current Entity has with other Entities in the database

Projects App is used to create and manage Projects and their associated Experiments

Projects and Experiments can be created from both the Projects and Experiments tabs

The landing page of the Projects app displays the complete list of Projects in an ESP instance

The “Experiments” tab displays all Experiments and their details in an ESP instance

Experiments can be grouped by Project, Workflow, or Owner

Select the name of an Experiment to view details

Administrators can use the “Planner” tab to view and better understand a timeline for a business process and compare that to the time it took the end user to execute it

Notes about the Calendar view on the “Planner” tab:

Used to create and manage content in ESP

Data – types of business objects (e.g., Entity Class, Service Types, and Vendors)

Processes – building components of an end-to-end business operation (e.g., Protocols, Workflows, and Workflow Chains)

Extensions – Applets and Doclets

The LIMS app is used to process Experiments through the creation of Worksheets

Allows users to create, manage, and monitor Pipelines

The landing page of the Analysis app, offers the “Monitor” tab which displays all executed Pipeline Instances and their status in an ESP instance, sorted by start time and listed in descending order

Selecting the empty space next to a Pipeline Instance populates details in the Inspector panel on the right side of the page

Pipeline reports are also available in this view for further analysis

Displays complete list of imported and exported files in an ESP instance

Files can be uploaded as Protocol in the LIMS app, Entity in the Entities apps, or in an ad-hoc fashion in the Data app

Used to manage and track Containers and their contents, and metadata

Container – any physical location (e.g., freezers, racks, boxes, and multi-well plates)

Containers are instances of Container Types, which are created and managed in the L7|MASTER app, and can store other Containers, Entities, and Items from the Inventory

Container nesting allows users to model location hierarchies

There are two ways to view Containers on the landing page, Tree view and List view

Used to manage and track Items and their details, and usage history

Item – registered consumable, reagent, or kit component that the user wants to track

Items are created and managed in the L7|MASTER app

The landing page of the Inventory app displays the complete list of Items in an ESP instance, and items are grouped by Item Type, with the total number of nested Items displayed in parentheses

Reorder Thresholds can be assigned to Item Types in the L7|MASTER app

Offers users two tabs, “Dashboards” and “Reports”

“Dashboards” tab provides operational metrics that summarize events in ESP

“Reports” tab compliments metrics displayed in the “Dashboards” tab

ESP comes with stock reports, but custom reports and/or custom widgets can be created by an L7 representative or code-based content creator

Used by Administrators to manage User access and permissions through Roles and Workgroups

Add/remove users

Modify roles and workgroups

If the organization uses single sign-on (SSO), ESP users cannot set their own password, as this would be linked to their main sign-in password

Projects are created first, these are used to kick-off Experiments and their associated Worksheets

Users progress through pre-developed Workflows and Workflow Chains

Standard Protocol – associates experimental data with an Entity

Sample Protocol – create child Entities of the same or different Entity Type

Pipeline Protocol – launches a Pipeline

Pipeline – collection of Tasks (shell scripts) run on compute resources