Empower Tip: System Policies

In this tip, we will discuss System Policies for New Projects. These System Policies only affect new projects that are created and do not affect existing projects.

Let’s see how it’s done!

Let’s look at the Default Full Audit Trail settings first.

Full Audit Trail Support – with this policy enabled, anytime someone creates a new project it will have a Project Audit Trail.

Default Full Audit Trails Table – select whether a comment is required for Methods, Results, Samples and/or Deletion. For example, if you create or modify a Method, you may be required to enter a comment as to the reason why you performed this action.

The choices for comments are as follows.

Silent – no comment needed

Unrestricted – enter text

Restricted – pick from a list of pre-defined comments (more about this in steps 4-6).

NOTE: If Confirm Identity is selected, the User will need to enter their Empower password after the action is performed.

The selections below the table are as follows.

Don't allow user to change default Full Audit Trail Support setting – if this is enabled the User cannot change the Full Audit Trail Support selection made in Step 1, bullet 1.

Don't allow user to change default 'Require User Comments On' settings – if this is enabled the User cannot change the selections made in Step 1, bullet 2.

Don't allow user to copy from non-FAT projects into FAT projects – if this is enabled the User cannot copy data from a project without an Audit Trail into a project which has an Audit Trail.

Allow shallow copies between FAT projects – if this is enabled only the latest version of a method is copied between projects which have Audit Trails.

In Step 2, I made mention of pre-defined comments which are called Default Strings. To create a Default String, go to Configuration Manager and select Default Strings from the View menu.

Select the category from the list for which you want to create a Default String, in this example, it’s Processing Methods.

Click ‘Add String’ to open a dialogue box into which you enter the text. Click ‘OK’ and this comment will now be available when you create or modify a Processing Method in the project.

It’s that easy!