.. KDXplore Harvest




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KDXplore Harvest
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.. Note:: This Module Is In Alpha


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Overview
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Aims
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The Harvest module in KDXplore helps to facilitate the harvest process in Nursery Trials. It aims to do this with as little impact to an organisation's workflow as possible. 

Advantages
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Some advantages of the Harvest module/plugin are the:

- Ability to work offline facilitates use in the field or storehouse, only requiring an Internet connection for the final upload step;
- Agnostic to organism;
- Agnostic to units of measurement;
- Flexibly designed to fit on top of or supplement an organisation's previous harvest workflow;
- Allows potentially inexperienced users to direct the process safely;
- Adds a layer of digital book keeping to previously defined harvest work flows;
- Easily select naming conventions from a customisable list for newly created Specimen/Genotypes; and
- Attempts to automatically generate Pedigree's from KDDart's genealogy data, which are then editable.

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   :alt: Starting screen of the Harvest wizard
   
   Starting screen of the Harvest wizard


General Workflow - Nursery Harvest
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.. list-table:: Nursery Harvest Workflow
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   * - Step
     - Description
   * - Field Item Retrieval
     - Defining which Plots/Specimens were harvested (with KDSmart).
   * - Naming and Coding
     - Applying customisable ontology conventions to new Specimen/Genotypes and Pedigree's.
   * - Generating new Genotypes
     - Creating new associated Genotype DB Items with newly generated Pedigree's.
   * - Item Transferral
     - Weighing/measuring the harvested material (for inventory), supplemented by the device server tool.
   * - Storage Validation
     - Validating where the harvest material will be sent, and allocating it there in KDDart.
   * - KDDart upload
     - Uploading all changes to KDDart, setting the Trial to 'Harvested'.  Checks for conflicts before this