# Skip trials

Aim

To skip one or more of the planned trials because of unforeseen circumstances. For instance, when a subject is no longer available.

You can skip:

▪An entire trial. See the procedure below.

example You track mice in an open field. For trial 5, the subject is no longer available. That means that after acquiring trial 4 you want to proceed with trial 6.

▪One or more arenas within a trial. See Skip arenas within a trial

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 trial.

3.Proceed with acquiring your trials. If for any reason you want to acquire the trial set to To Skip, set it back to Planned in the Trial List and open the Acquisition screen.

Notes

▪You can also skip a trial in the Acquisition screen. When the text on the video window shows the name of the trial that you want to skip, click the Skip trial button. EthoVision is ready to acquire the next planned trial.

▪If your trials include multiple arenas, and you want to skip an entire trial, select To Skip for all the arenas in that trial. Otherwise you can skip specific arenas within a trial. See Skip arenas within a trial

▪If you have recorded video and you want to skip trials/arenas before acquiring data, in the Trial List change the status from Postponed to Postponed To Skip.