1. ZIMS What’s News! November 2018
What’s News covers functionality that was recently deployed in ZIMS. New functionality is rolled out every two weeks and sometimes more often than that! Major new functionality will have its own PPT or Help document. ZIMS What’s News covers miscellaneous new functionality that you may not know about!

2. New Topics Covered Husbandry Studbook Animal Available from Record
Group History on Specimen Report
Studbook
Dismissing Data Entry Errors

3. Animal Available from Record
This was an Enhancement
requested by many of our
ZIMS Users. You can now
record an animal on the
Animals Available list
directly from the animal
record. Go to Details tab >
Actions > Add Animal to
Animals Available List. If
the animal is already on the
list you will get a warning.
To remove the animal from
the AA list, you will still need
to do so from My Institution >
Animals Available.

4. Group History on Specimen Report
In addition to viewing the
Notes from other groups that
an individual or group has
been a member of, you can now
select to have that information
included in the Specimen
Report. A new option for “Group
History Notes” will appear when
Notes are selected to include in
the report.

5. Studbook – Dismissing Data Entry Errors
You can now dismiss Data Quality Errors that you do not believe are true errors.
Species biology may be such that ZIMS sees an error when there really is not one.
Examples are delayed implantation and embryonic diapause where the Sire may
be dead long before the conception date that is calculated from the gestation period.
Select the “x” to the right of the error to dismiss it. You can bring all dismissed errors
back by checking the Display Dismissed Errors checkbox.