1) Signup for a trial:

You have 30 days to test a fully-featured version of LabWidget. You can subscribe at any time during the trial period.

2) Access:

A unique URL will be assigned to your lab when the account is created.

3) Adding New Users:

The user who creates a new account is the Principal Investigator (PI). The PI can add new users (Lab Accounts). LabWidget has four classes of users with varying permissions and editing capabilities:

Principal Investigator: The PI has complete control over all aspects of the account. The PI can create new users, create new data tables, edit data in existing tables, and restore from archive. There can only be one PI account.

Lab Manager: A Lab Manager account can perform all functions except restore from archive. There can only be one Lab Manager account.

Scientist: Scientist accounts can add new tables, add new data to existing tables, edit existing data. Scientist accounts can’t add new users or delete entire tables, but they can delete individual entries in a table. Multiple scientist accounts are permitted.  

Technician: Technician accounts are read-only. Multiple technician accounts are permitted.

4) How to get your existing data into LabWidget

LabWidget will build a new table from an existing .csv file instantly.  See ‘Import’ below for details.

5) New table

• Create a new table
• Fields may be text, date, file, category, number
• Date fields should be formatted as YYYY/MM/DD
• File fields will prompt the user to upload a file (max 5MB)
• Category fields allow user to select predefined options from a pull-down menu.

6) Manage

• Tables can be renamed
• Fields can be renamed, or their type can be changed
• Data can be imported into an existing table. Note this will be appended to existing data
• Tables can be deleted (permanent)
• Data can be cleared from an existing table (permanent)
• New data can be imported into an existing cleared table
• The PI can set a table to ‘private’ so only the PI can view data in that table

7) Import

• Define a new table name and import a .csv file
• LabWidget will autodetect field types
• Date formats should be in YYYY/MM/DD
• If fields contain mixed data types (e.g. number and text) LabWidget will consider the field to contain text

8) Export:

• Export your entire data set including attachments in 1-click
•  Export an individual table as a .csv

9) Restore:

• Roll back your entire LabWidget account to any date in the prior month.
• Restore overwrites existing data.

10) Users:

• Invite new users and define their account type
• New users receive an email to confirm their identity
• If users aren’t receiving emails from LabWidget check the spam folder