Most Room Management operations such as Adding Plates and Instances can only be done on Rooms that have been Deactivated.

Deactivating a Room means that no result sets from it will be added to the system from the date of deactivation.


Rooms can be Activated/Deactivated through the Room Hierarchy section of the Room Editor.


Active Rooms are shown in Green within the Hierarchy

Deactivated Rooms are shown in Red:

and any plate locations within a deactivated room will be greyed out to reflect the room's status:

To Activate/Deactivate a room, select it in the Hierarchy and click on the Activate/Deactivate Room button in the Room Menu in the top-right of the screen.

If the room is Deactivated, the Activate Room option will be shown
If the room is Activated, the Deactivate Room option will be shown

Different options in the Room Menu may become available depending on the activation status of the room.


When Activating a Room, you will be asked to select a Version Start Date from which the new Room will be active.
This is to maintain accuracy for historical reporting on the room.

When you have selected a Version Start Date, you will notice that the Room's version, displayed next to it's title will increase by 1:

For more information on this, see Room Versioning (NOT YET WRITTEN)