chemstation sequences

[mardexis]

I start the day by running a sequence of maybe 20 samples and save the sequence template. Over the course of the day I will add many samples to the sequence and save the sequence template each time.

To my amazement Chemstation only saves the initially entered sequence. i.e. when I try to open the sequence the next day to remember what I did it only shows the initially entered samples.

Any thoughts comments? This seems totally unacceptable to me.

As a work around I will open the sequence template while running and do a screen shot to see what I really ran. Seems like there should be someway to output this to a textfile but I can't figure out how.

Thanks!

[Consumer Products Guy]

Our dozen GC and HPLC ChemStations (up to A.10, we don't have newer) ALL save the sequence at any time (except when one is off line and that same sequence is loaded online).

Have you tried saving to a different name to see what happens, like xxxxx2.S ?

If this is a recent issue, have you shut down the computer and instrument and started up again?

[mardexis]

Thanks CPG! I talked to some of our heavier users and they seem to know about this issue. While sequence is running you can not SAVE AS but only save. This makes chemstation acknowledge and run the added samples but does not save the new sample information. I will check but I am told that once the sequence has finished you can save it.