A single source of truth One of QuickTrials key benefits is its ability to organise lots of data and provide a single source of qualified information that can be referenced whenever needed.  The structured data and integration possibilities provided by QuickTrials also help to ensure longevity of your trial assets.  Our approach to digitising trials means your data will continue to grow in usefulness and value over time, as future [...]

  A new List View With QuickTrails we want you to have the most effective and comfortable way of not only entering data but also reviewing it. The recently added grid view provides a great overview of the data and helps users to see the context of information in a two dimensional table like an Excel sheet. When working on devices with a small screen (Eg. a phone rather than [...]

Experimental Design Preview When setting up an experimental design, there are often many parameters involved to define the actual block and plot layout. To make this faster and more intuitive, we added a live preview of the layout at the bottom of the page. This preview allows you to play with the parameters and see exactly what will happen to the layout.  It visually shows what you can expect as [...]

Trials are not only executed, but also have to be set up and configured. At QuickTrials, we try to optimize every step in that process, based on customer feedback. In this newsletter, we will focus on some recent additions that will help you raise efficiency to new levels. Groupless staff permissions One of the tasks when planning the execution of field trials is the assignment of staff, to define who [...]

Enterprise customers often need to compare trials across different geographic regions or examine specific traits across similar trials.  This can be a tricky data organisation challenge and our recent enhancements help to streamline and solve this problem.   Powerful Observation Library QuickTrials has a central library of traits to make it easier to compare traits across different trials or years.  Our best-practice recommendation is to use this trait library as [...]

Many of you love the card layouts we have for entering data, but we also received a lot of feedback asking for an interface that resembled an Excel spreadsheet in order to better see an overview of all the data.  We took this a step further and are happy to introduce a new user interface that will make it even easier to work with your data. We now have two [...]

More plot layout options! We had good feedback about plot layouts and are happy to announce some new features that will help with better automated layouts as well as manual arrangements     Nested latin square layout support Having a lating square inside a latin square is a powerful way to get well balanced trial results. This is now possible for trials with multiple factors Improved split plot layout The [...]

How does weather impact your trial We’re happy to announce a new add-on weather service.  This option adds automatic weather data to your sites! For $50.- per month you receive daily weather data for up to 100 trial locations.   The weather service provides daily min/mean/max temperature and precipitation data so you can analyse how weather impacts crop growth and trial results.  The weather service can be turned on or [...]

Overview of your trial data We’ve been steadily enhancing QuickTrials and would like to announce a new overview feature that we think you’ll enjoy. When field staff are busy recording measurements, it can be helpful to see an overview of all the data collected so far in order to spot irregularities or missing data, while still out in the field.  Spotting any potential mistakes there gives everyone a chance to [...]