# Skip arenas within a trial

Aim

To skip one or more of the arenas within a trial because those arenas are empty or the subjects there should not be tracked.

example You track fish larvae in a well plate with 24 wells. Therefore, each trial contains 24 arenas. When some wells are empty, it does not make sense to do tracking in empty arenas. Therefore, skip those arenas before acquiring the trial.

Background information

▪Before you acquire a trial which includes two or more arenas, all arenas are set to Planned. After acquiring the trial, they are all set to Acquired.

▪The To Skip option in the Trial List allows you to skip some arenas in a specific trial, so you can proceed with tracking in the remaining arenas. For example, in Trial 2, Arena 2 is empty, so you want to skip Arena 2. After you acquire Trial 2, Arena 1 is set to Acquired and Arena 2 is set automatically to Skipped.

Procedure

1.Open the Trial List, and click Show/Hide > Variable > select Acquisition status.

2.In the Acquisition status column select To Skip for the corresponding arena.

3.Proceed with acquiring your trials.

Notes

▪When you skip arenas within a trial, only the subjects in the non-skipped arenas are tracked.

▪You can clear a trial with one or more skipped arenas. After clearing a trial, all arenas are set to Planned (or Postponed if you chose to record video and track later).