We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of iExperiment, Colabrativ’s enterprise electronic notebook.
Changes to iExperiment an Enterprise Electronic Notebook
The following changes have been made to version 1.1 of iExperiment Enterprise Electronic Notebook (ELN):
- The options for viewing records under the Select tab have been changed. There are now four “List of Records I Can” options: read, edit, delete and download.
Figure 1
New View Record Options under Select Tab
Top of Select tab in iExperiment showing the four new “List of Records I Can” options: read, edit, delete and download. The read option has been selected. - Copy Record, Download Record Archive and Download PDF Archive buttons have been added to the tops of records.
Figure 2
New Copy Record, Download Record Archive and Download PDF Archive Buttons
New Copy Record, Download Record Archive and Download PDF Archive buttons at the top of a record in iExperiment. - Sponsoring Institution options have been added to the experiment properties file. The options are:
- admin: Where the sponsored institution will be the primary administrator (institution key = 1).
- author: Where the institution of the author’s active research period will be used.
- key=: The sponsoring institution key will be identified by its database key; Example key=23
In this AMI the sponsoring institution option is “admin”.
- Bug Fix: The material Oracle was failing to add materials that lacked a lot or serial number.
- Bug Fix: Sections containing no text, such as a Summary section with only the material produced, were not being displayed from a record archive in a web browser, despite being contained in the record archive.
Evaluating iExperiment an Enterprise Electronic Notebook
It’s easy for you to evaluate iExperiment through Amazon Web Services. A three-part tutorial is available, under the Free Trial tab in the navigation bar above, to guide you through i) the creation of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance using the iExperiment AMI, ii) configuration of iExperiment, and iii) adding your first researcher.
Browser Compatibility of iExperiment
iExperiment is built on Google Web Toolkit and is not compatible with all browsers. Currently, iExperiment works with Mozilla’s FireFox and Google’s Chrome, but does not work with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Apple’s Safari. Both Safari and Internet Explorer suffer from the same two problems:
- The text editor fails to maintain preexisting text.
- The file drag-and-drop capability introduces characters into the file names in Safari, and does not work at all in Internet Explorer.