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Disable procedure

In brief

You can use the check box on the procedure's settings page to specify that a procedure should be disabled. This will prevent the procedure running during tests.

Details

Disabling a procedure is something that you may want to do while you're first writing the procedure(s) for a protocol. Setting up a procedure for a test may take some trial and error to get things running just right; this is particularly true if you have multiple procedures running for the same test (see Running procedures).

During this time, you're likely to want to try out perhaps one procedure at a time, to see if it's working correctly, without worrying about any errors that are encountered in the running of a procedure (See Errors and warnings while running a procedure).

This feature allows you to temporarily disable a procedure, so that it's not run during a test.

This feature shouldn't really be used once you actually start running an experiment. For example, if you want to run the procedure during a specific Stage of a test, but not for others, you should use the Stages option on the procedure's settings page to specify which stages that the procedure should run in. If you only want to run the procedure for certain trials, animals or even only on a specific day of the week, this can be achieved within the procedure itself by using built-in variables.

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