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Support creating the individual working primer plates in a primer set on different days

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Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points to begin with. First clarify with the lab how often primer plates are created on different days and agree on the desired behavior and scope before locating the relevant LabControl workflow; done means each plate in a primer set can capture its own creation date.

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feature request

This issue was raised in the email below:

From: Charles Cowart
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 10:49 AM
To: "Birmingham, Amanda"

I ran some of this by Greg, and one thing he was able to tell me was it should be possible for i5 and i7 entries to have different dates, although it wouldn't likely be the case.

Currently LabControl doesn't support this: both shotgun working primer plates (i5 and i7) are created at the same time, as a pair, with the same creation date attached:

Screen Shot 2019-06-07 at 11 31 10 AM

Screen Shot 2019-06-07 at 11 34 11 AM

The same issue would also apply to any other multi-plate primer sets--for instance, if the 8 plates of the EMP 16S V4 primer set were created across different days, LabControl would not be prepared to capture this.

We probably need to scope with the lab how often this case occurs to determine how much effort should be put into changing the LabControl functionality to accommodate it.

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