Empower Tip: Browse Projects

Have you ever had to find a Method or a Result but were not sure which Project to look in? Most of us resort to opening and closing individual Projects until we find what we are looking for. An alternative would be to use Global Projects view to search across multiple projects.

From the Pro Interface select Configure the System.

When Configuration Manager opens, highlight 2 or more projects, right-click on one of the highlighted projects and select Open.

This is Global Project View. If you look closely, the tabs are the same as in an individual project, however, we are now looking across 2 projects in this example. There is an additional column, Project Name, which tells us in which project the particular item can be found.

All of the things we have discussed in earlier tips – sorting data, using View As, and using View Filters - apply to all of the tables in Global Projects View. In this example, we see a View Filter called PQ Standards that when applied, displays all samples that have names containing PQ and have the Sample Type Standard.

We can add more projects to the view by clicking the Projects Available tool. When you click the tool it displays a list of projects from which we can pick from. If we want to include an additional project in the view, select it and click Activate.