Working with Materials

You can define the materials used in your experiment by creating links to materials stored in Materials Management. You can only add materials to a Materials pane in an experiment created using the Generic experiment type.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Experiment Page
Adding an Experiment
Describing the Experiment

Add a Material

With the Materials pane of your experiment visible, do one of the following:
  • Click Select, choose the materials you require, and click OK.
  • Drag material results from a Search Results panel into the table in the Materials pane.
  • In the materials table header, click and select the materials you require, and click OK.

The materials table updates with the selected materials. By default, the table lists each material's name, role, CAS number, amount, and unit. You can reference any materials in the experiment's Write-Up Block. For more information, see Write-Up the Experiment.

View Material Details

For the material you want to view, click and select Get Material Details.

The material displays in an unpinned Materials Management app. Close Materials Management to continue working in Scientific Notebook.

Delete a Material

For the material you want to delete, click and select Remove Material.

The materials table no longer lists the material you deleted. If you delete a material that is referenced in the Write-Up pane of the experiment, the material name remains in the text description even though it is deleted from the Material pane table.

Delete Several Materials

  1. In the Material pane table, select the rows for the materials you want to remove.

    Tips:
    • You can press CTRL and click multiple rows.
    • You can select in the first column for each of the rows.
    • Select in the header row to select all rows.

    The selected materials to remove display with a blue background to the row and in the first column.
  2. In the materials table toolbar, click Remove Material.

The materials table no longer lists the materials you deleted.

Configure the Materials Table Display

You can configure the display of the table in the Materials pane.

  1. Right-click the header row of the table in the Materials pane to configure the table. You can:
    • Pin column
    • Size Column to Fit
    • Size All Columns to Fit
  2. Select Custom Views... to configure a personalized preferred view of the table.
    1. Do one of the following:

      • Click to create a new custom view.
      • Select the existing custom view you want to configure or apply.

    2. Click Update from current view to load the column widths, pinning, and sorting from the table.
    3. Customize the settings for the view, including:

      • Select the columns you want to include in the custom view.
      • Specify widths for columns as required.
      • Choose whether to pin columns to the left or right of the table, or not at all.
      • Choose a column by which to sort the rows and whether to sort ascending or descending.
      • Select the density of the display.

    4. Click Reset to Default to discard any customizations.
    5. Click Save or Save and Apply.
    The Materials pane table updates with the display settings selected.