ZIMS for Husbandry and Aquatics

• Animal Graphing Tool
  • Users can now graph various record types for single or multiple animals, including animal weights and lengths, feed logs, energy content and care and welfare data
  • Data export includes all selected animals and record type
  • Easily view trends over time from the desktop or mobile platform
  • Customize the y-axis to narrow down areas of note
• Care and Welfare Module enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Left column freezes to improve mobile scrolling capability
  • Order of animals in columns should now be consistent by local ID unless user creates a custom order when building a template
  • Mobile freezing issues have been resolved
• Daily Report improvements:
  • Life Support and Component data now available on the Daily Report
• Death notification for animals on loan
  • For animals on loan with a recorded death, the holding institution will receive a notice that the loaning institution will receive a pending transaction automatically. Non-ZIMS loaning institutions will need to be manually notified.
• Template shortcuts now work from mobile devices
• Minor enhancements and bug fixes

ZIMS for Medical

• Continued work on the Sample Storage module
• Bug fixes

ZIMS for Studbooks

• Filter Animal List by Multiple Status types:
  • Users can now select more than one status type when filtering their lists. This will assist studbook keepers who manage populations both in situ and ex situ, as they can now filter to see all of their living animals within one list.
• PMx Improvements
  • Name change from .ped to .zim file
  • Additional columns added to export
    • House name, GAN, tags, bands, transponders, rearing, birth type, birth location, contraception, taxonomy, estimated conception date, regional association, demographically selected, UDFs
  • Improvements for MULTs with varying percentages assigned
    • If MULT groupings are assigned different percentages for parents, now a letter is added to the end of the MULT to designate the percentages of the parents differ.
  • “Apply demographic filters to all filters” button on PMx export screen now updates all filters but does not change census date.
• Filter Animal List by Notes
  • Option now available to filter the animal list by note records. All animals the match text entered in note filter will return in the list and users can view the note by selecting the “+” icon. Filter by text, note type, subtype or keywords.
• Column Customization
  • Allows users to set preferences for the columns displayed within each animal list.
    • Each animal list (Living, All, Suggested, Pending Updates, and Data Quality) can be individually customized to display the columns preferred by the user.
    • The columns displayed in the list will export to excel and PDF.
    • Columns can be sorted and the user can reorder the columns by dragging and dropping the column header.
    • The column customization selection for each list (can be the same or different columns selected per list) will remain in place when the user logs out and back into ZIMS.
  • New Columns Available in Animal Lists:
    • UDFs:Users can now choose to display the UDFs within the animals list. Turning on a UDF column will display the UDF for each animal displayed in the list.
      • If the studbook has multiple UDFs, the user can turn each UDF column on individually to display some or all of the columns.
    • Regional Association:This column displays the regional association that the animal is currently a part of. The regional associations displayed are based on the current institution holding the animal.
    • Contraception:This column will display the most recent active contraception status for each animal.
    • Birth Location:Currently available in live ZIMS. Displays the animal’s birth location.
    • Transponder:Displays the animal’s most recent transponder entered by the institution or the user.
    • Tag:Displays the animal’s most recent tag entered by the institution or the user.
    • Band:Displays the animal’s most recent band entered by the institution or the user.
    • Death Date:Displays the animal’s death date.
    • RearingDisplays animals rearing record.
    • Estimated Conception Date:Displays the estimated conception date for the animal based on the birth/hatch date and gestation/incubation period entered the studbook.
  • Identifier Search
    • The animal search filter has been improved to search for all animal identifiers. Previously the filter only searched on local ID, GAN, and SB ID. Now the user can enter any text in the search box and the list will return all animals that have an identifier match.
  • Death Code Local ID Changes:
    • Death codes have been removed from death local ID events and replaced with the local ID for all studbooks.
  • Migration Linking Improvements:
    • Studbook animals with multiple potential matches in Husbandry are no longer automatically linked to any Husbandry animals during migration.
    • This change will give users better visibility to potential duplicate animals in Husbandry so they may be reported for merging or dismissed from the suggested list and users can choose which Husbandry animal to link to the studbook animal.
  • DQ Error for duplicate local IDs
    • A new data quality error was implemented that looks for duplicate local ID/mnemonic pairings within the studbook.
  • Census Details Report:
    • This report can be filtered by location, UDF, and taxonomy and includes number of births, death, transfers, etc. broken down by male.female.undetermined. There are hyperlinks for the counts, similar to the census report.
  • Institutional Holdings Improvements:
    • The count displayed in the report is now broken down by male.female.undetermined totals with a hyperlink to the total number of animals. The export to excel/PDF exports as sorted and displayed in the tool.
  • Compare Husbandry Animal:
    • The Compare tool now allows users to enter a GAN to compare Husbandry animal records. The tool can now compare Husbandry animals and Studbook animals, this should allow for easier investigation of duplicate Husbandry animals and comparing Husbandry/Studbook animals for linking.
    • This tool can be accessed from the Tools menu, Studbook Animal Detail screen, and the Suggested Animal Detail screen.
  • Suggested List Location Filters:
    • Location filters have been added to the Suggested Animal List to allow users to search and add animals to their studbooks more efficiently. Users can now filter the list using the same filters available in the other animal lists – this includes using and creating saved location filters.
  • Minor enhancements and bug fixes