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Deleting a procedure

Introduction

You can delete a procedure at any time, either before, during or after an experiment has been performed, as long as it has not been used to end the test (see below). However, please consider the notes below before doing so.

To delete a procedure, simply select it in the protocol list and click the Remove item button on the ribbon bar.

Things to consider

Any tests that have already been run will not be affected by the removal of a procedure - any actions that the procedure took will already have happened. Bear in mind that deleting a procedure before running further trials will mean that the trials will be run under different conditions to those already run - you may not want this to happen!

Restrictions

You cannot delete a procedure that has been used to end a test. When a procedure ends a test, the procedure is noted as the 'test end reason', and this can be used as an independent variable in the analysis of results. ANY-maze will prevent you from deleting such a procedure, so that this test end reason can still be used in analysis.

This is true if the procedure has ended the test using the End the test action. A procedure can also end the test by specifying a specific test end reason, in which case the procedure itself is no longer needed and could be deleted. However, you should still think carefully before deleting the procedure!

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