Installing Bika Health Extension

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installing Bika Health
3. Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.7
4. Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.6
5. Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.5

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Introduction

Bika Health is an extension for Bika LIMS developed specifically for health care laboratories, with patient samples and clinical cases the central elements in the lab workflow. Bika Health can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD and other platforms.

Installing Bika Health

Follow the same steps described in Bika LIMS installation guide, but

on the step 3, add the egg bika.health in the buildout.cfg instead of bika.lims.

Buildout will download the required version of bika.lims, as well as other dependencies. The eggs section might look like:

eggs =
    Plone
    Pillow
    bika.health

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Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.7

Bika Health 3.1.7 requires Bika LIMS 3.1.8 (released on 2015/06/03).

As a 'minor' release, this is a safe upgrade (see Bika's Release Cycle, but if your instance has been customised, we strongly suggest to review whether the customisations are affected by checking the changelogs published with Bika LIMS 3.1.8 and Bika Health 3.1.7:

• full changelog of Bika LIMS 3.1.8
• full changelog of Bika Health 3.1.7

Upgrade instructions

1. Be sure to verify all pending Analysis Requests (see Bika LIMS 3.1.8 for further details)

2. Review carefully the release notes and upgrade instructions for Bika LIMS 3.1.8

3. Remember to make a backup

4. Be sure to not have bika.lims neither bika.health declared inside the versions section from the buildout. versions section might look like this:

   [versions]
   Cheetah = 2.2.1
   plone.recipe.command = 1.1
   plone.recipe.precompiler = 0.6
   plone.recipe.unifiedinstaller = 4.3.1
   Products.DocFinderTab = 1.0.5
   ZopeSkel = 2.21.2
   collective.recipe.backup = 2.14
   zopeskel.dexterity = 1.5.3
   zopeskekel.dexterity = 1.5.3
   zopeskel.diazotheme = 1.1
   raven = 4.0.4
   

5. Follow the same steps described in Bika LIMS installation guide for upgrading Bika LIMS.

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Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.6

Bika Health 3.1.6 requires Bika LIMS 3.1.7 (released on 2015/02/26).

As a 'minor' release, this is a safe upgrade (see Bika's Release Cycle, but if your instance has been customised, we strongly suggest to review whether the customisations are affected by checking the changelogs published with Bika LIMS 3.1.7 and Bika Health 3.1.6:

• full changelog of Bika LIMS 3.1.7
• full changelog of Bika Health 3.1.6

Upgrade instructions

1. Be sure to not have bika.lims neither bika.health declared inside the versions section from the buildout. versions section might look like this:

   [versions]
   Cheetah = 2.2.1
   plone.recipe.command = 1.1
   plone.recipe.precompiler = 0.6
   plone.recipe.unifiedinstaller = 4.3.1
   Products.DocFinderTab = 1.0.5
   ZopeSkel = 2.21.2
   collective.recipe.backup = 2.14
   zopeskel.dexterity = 1.5.3
   zopeskekel.dexterity = 1.5.3
   zopeskel.diazotheme = 1.1
   raven = 4.0.4
   

2. Follow the same steps described in Bika LIMS installation guide for upgrading Bika LIMS.

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Upgrading to Bika Health 3.1.5

Bika Health 3.1.5 is not compatible with Bika LIMS > 3.1.5, so you need to set manually which version of Bika LIMS must be downloaded.

Upgrade instructions

1. Inside the buildout.cfg's versions section:

   [versions]
   ...
   bika.lims = 3.1.5
   

2. Follow the same steps described in Bika LIMS installation guide for upgrading Bika LIMS.