Ship Track
Ship Track is an application built to track clinical shipments to Gene Expression Laboratory division of Rosetta from collaborators around the world. (Rosetta was a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck. They were purchased by Covance in August 2009.) This is a private web application so a public URL cannot be provided.
Ship Track Features
- Automatic generation and processing of PDF forms. Because this is a private (in-house) application, external collaborators could not access it. To overcome this obstacle and still allow external collaborators to submit data, a PDF form is generated and sent via email to the collaborator. The collaborator then fills out the form and sends it back. The returned PDF form is automatically processed by Ship Track. In the event of errors, the external collaborator is is emailed a list of specific errors and given another chance to fill out the form.
- User management. Users can register and log in. Users are associated with a client. Clients must authorize a user after they register before they are able to use the system (unless the users has an email in a client-specified domain)
- Configurable. Most everything in the application is configurable (the goal was to build a system that required as little maintenance as possible).
- Usability testing. Usability testing was done to ensure a usable produce. The tests were to simply put a random person in front of the application and ask them to do certain tasks.
- Modal pop-up forms. Modal pop-up forms make it easy to create new shipment locations and other entities on the fly.
- Daily alerts. Alert emails are sent to a configurable list of emails to warn about late or missing shipments and other situations that may require intervention.
