Experiments should be signed and locked after completion in compliance with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and CFR 21 part 11.
By default, eLabJournal requires a single digital signature to sign experiments. However, a witness can counter-sign an experiment before permanently locking it.
Note: while signed experiments are locked to prevent further data modification, they can still be opened in view-only mode.
To sign an experiment, open the experiment and click the Sign button.
The user must enter their credentials and click Sign Experiment.
Note: Users can also sign their experiments with a two-step verification code
Signed experiments are locked into a read-only mode, and a digital signature, including a time stamp, is visible in the experiment header.
Signing Experiments with Two-factor Code
If a user's organization uses an organization-specific login (i.e. LDAP / AD / SSO), passwords are not stored within the eLabJournal system. For this reason, experiments can only be signed using a generated two-step verification code. To sign an experiment with a two-step verification code, users first need to set up two-step verification for their account.
After clicking the Sign icon, users can enter the two-step verification code in the appeared window.
Open the eLabJournal app on a mobile device and access the Two-Step Verification code.
Enter the 6 digits and click Sign Experiment.
