As well as uploading your sample information, it is possible to plan your data collection in ispyb as well. We encourage this wherever possible, since everything you can do beforehand will make your experiment that little bit easier. There are limits though: if your proposal uses custom equipment or very complex ramp rates, then it might not be possible to exactly plan your experiment using the instructions on this page. If you think you need to plan something more complex, you should speak to your local contactHowever, this is currently under testing and not recommended. Instead we will write the plans for the data collection using GDA during your beamtime.
Plan Experiments Page
By default, every sample you’ve created using the methods described in this manual will come with a simple, one-shot data collection plan (remember that exposure time box you left at the default value? That was for this).
You can find all the experiment plans you’ve got for the samples in any given container by finding that container on the Containers page.
From within your proposal, navigate to the containers page (Proposal dropdown > Containers)
Select the relevant container
Click the Plan Experiments button (this may take a up to 30s to load)
You’ll now see all the planned data collections for the samples in this container. You can modify the planned data collection order by clicking and dragging the plans up and down.
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