LabCollector 6.32 is here 🚀

This major release pushes AI from a preview into a practical, everyday toolset, while modernizing the platform’s core operational areas. Expect brand-new built-in AI agents, a real-time dashboard, a reworked storage experience, and a smarter alerts system. 🧪

🎯 The headline: a new generation of built-in AI agents — a semantic SmartSearch and the new Co-Scientist (RAG-based reasoning over your own lab data via the SmartSearch add-on) — backed by a new Azure OpenAI provider option. Alongside AI, 6.32 delivers a real-time Dashboard, the next-generation POMv2 procurement module, a broad storage management overhaul, and a group-aware Alerts & Notifications system. The release is rounded out with extensive compliance, security, and stability hardening. 🔒

🤖 AI agents & providers

🔎 SmartSearch: fast, meaning-aware semantic search (needs only an AI provider configured).

🧠 Co-Scientist: RAG/AI-indexing reasoning over your lab data (via the SmartSearch add-on, formerly Advanced Search).

☁️ New Azure OpenAI provider; enhanced Smart Search engine; enlarged MolSearch dataset and updated molecule editor.

📊 Dashboard (new)

Real-time inventory totals, key risks, and per-add-on status cards. Available from Tools and Home, with an admin on/off toggle, and fully translated into all interface languages. 🌍

🛒 POMv2 – Next-gen procurement

New procurement/e-ordering generation, ERP Fullstep integration, and group-permission review. POM alerts now honor POM’s user/group permissions. ✅

📦 Storage management

🧊 New BoxGrid v2 workbench (opt-in via Admin › Manage Storage › Options).

🔢 Boxes without fixed column number/row letter; color for storage equipment.

🧪 Chemicals “Storage Zones” revamp with a built-in help guide, a “No location” zone counted in Total Stock, and a more prominent Total Stock.

🗂️ New admin file/DB storage statistics page; risk links on storage equipment.

🔔 Alerts & Notifications

Filter by user group, record owner, or all users, with Staff/Staff+ and group-admin support. 👥

⚖️ Compliance & security

🧯 HMIS hazard system added (alongside GHS/NFPA); block duplicate R&S records by CAS number; filter modules by multiple Risk & Safety categories; default lot expiration when compliance is on.

🧬 Recipes: GxP mode, Homemade-seller auto-linking, usage log saved to Documents, and project-code-linked component destock.

⚙️ Custom fields & data ops

🏷️ Sample type usable as a custom-field Category; category sub-fields in inline Mass Update; conditional custom fields on add-ons; default values on import; new NCBI autocomplete sources (Worms/Fungi).

🔌 ThermoFisher VisionMate rack scanner CSV support; straw importing to visiotube.