# Laboratory information system

> Samples, test methods with specification limits, results through forms, a nonconformity case for every out of specification result and instruments from assets that must hold a valid qualification.

- Category: Work management
- Module: `lims`
- Modes: `managed`, `custom`
- Docs: https://bettersupabase.com/docs/blocks/lims
- Page: https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/lims

## Install

```bash
npx better-supabase add lims
```

The command also installs `updated-at`, `memberships`, `permissions`, `subjects`.

## Configure

Add the block to `better-supabase.config.ts`:

```ts
import { defineConfig } from "better-supabase/config";

export default defineConfig({
  blocks: {
    // Required by lims; add installs them too.
    "updated-at": {},
    memberships: {},
    permissions: {},
    subjects: {},
    // Modes: "managed", "custom". The default is "managed".
    lims: { mode: "managed" },
  },
});
```

## Client

The block has no React entry yet. Its server-side TypeScript is in `better-supabase/blocks/lims`.

## Events

- `lims_method.archived`
- `lims_method.created`
- `lims_method.updated`
- `lims_result.flagged`
- `lims_result.recorded`
- `lims_sample.completed`
- `lims_sample.registered`
- `lims_sample.rejected`
- `lims_sample.released`

## Related blocks

Requires: [memberships](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/memberships.md), [permissions](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/permissions.md), [subjects](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/subjects.md)

Works with: [forms](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/forms.md), [cases](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/cases.md), [assets](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/assets.md), [qualifications](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/qualifications.md), [numbering](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/numbering.md), [outbox](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/outbox.md), [audit](https://bettersupabase.com/blocks/audit.md)