The snippets under Method Information contain information on the used acquisition or processing methods. For acquisition methods, this includes information on the instrument settings such as the signals, flow rates, or pressure limits. For processing methods, this includes information such as integration events, expected retention times, calibration parameters, or column parameters used for system suitability calculations.
Method information snippets may be shown directly as a group of fields and tables, or have a specific structure with up to eight levels. In this specific structure, each level may contain single data fields, tables, or a combination of both. The content of each level depends on the system generating the method file. The data in each level is organized in sections with specific section names. You can create filter expressions using these section names.
Method information snippets are, for example:
The Method Path snippet shows the path and name of acquisition and data analysis methods on injection level.
The Spectra Library Search Parameters snippet shows the parameters for MS library search set in the method.
The Method Override Parameters snippet shows a list of method parameters that have been set directly in Acquisition and override the settings in the corresponding method.
The Acquisition Method Information Multi Column snippet shows all parameters set in the acquisition method.
The Data Analysis Method Information Multi Column snippet shows all parameters set in the data analysis method.
The Acquisition Method Compact, Data Analysis Method Compact, and Sample Prep Method Compact snippets show the method parameters using as little space as possible. The space used for each parameter is assigned dynamically. Parameters are only printed if a parameter value is available. The snippet cannot be resized, it always spans across the full report width.
Processing methods may have an asterisk (*) prepended to their display name. The asterisk indicates that a result set method has been modified after it was linked to an injection.
The asterisk is also shown if data was generated by OpenLab CDS prior to version 2.2. In this case, the data does no not contain the required unmodified information, thus the application cannot guarantee that the method is still unmodified.