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Adding a "being processed" color/border/... to newly plated wells? Or vice versa.

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5/5
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Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
design, frontend

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No file or test is named. Start by tracing the multiple-copy-and-paste flow and the point where pasted wells receive content-based formatting; compare the two proposed approaches for temporary or initial styling. Done means newly pasted wells are visibly marked while processing and the marker is removed once their correct status styling is applied.

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front-end question

Using the fancy multiple-copy-and-pasting functionality :), if you paste in a bunch of things at once then there's a sometimes-brief period where some of the wells pasted in have a white background, even if they really shouldn't. See the attached screenshot, where I pasted in the same ID to a bunch of cells—only some of the cells' formatting has changed to reflect the fact that this text is 1) duplicated on this plate and 2) previously plated.

Since "plain white background" is the implied status of "this is a good ID," the current behavior is somewhat misleading. I propose one of the following options:

  • Option 1: Modified wells are immediately (before anything else is done) assigned a unique styling, say a dashed-gray border, indicating that they are being processed and will update soon. This shouldn't require a backend update, since there isn't any need to store this information long-term (similarly to how #585 handles indeterminate wells)—this would just involve temporarily applying this styling, then removing it later.
  • Option 2: All wells on a plate start off with a similar styling (in this case indicating "not processed yet"), and this styling is removed when a well is assigned a style relating to its contents.

...As I was writing this out I realized that implementing this would be a pain, but I still think it might be worth doing later on down the line if the current behavior is confusing.

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