One of the steps involved in bulk registration in Chemical Registration is field mapping where the field names in the sdfile are mapped to the desired attributes in the database. Users will do this mapping in the Attributes tab in file registration workflow.

The process of mapping for several fields could be time-consuming and prone to errors, especially if multiple users do it. To avoid this problem, Chemical Registration administrators might be interested in a feature that will allow a pre-existing sdfile mapping to be shared with end users. Sharing an existing mapping would also eliminate the need for multiple users to duplicate each other’s work. It would also ensure that all users end up with a consistent mapping for fields contained in sdfiles from a particular vendor/collaborator to ensure that the data is always handled in the same way when compounds from that vendor/collaborator are registered.

Such a feature has been made available in Chemical Registration version 2021. This release includes utility protocols that will allow a Chemical Registration administrator to export one or more file registration settings as an Excel file and make them available by import to users who will do bulk registrations in this application.