Any way to be notified when a method is started, ended and an analysis report is available?

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Hello, 
 I am very new to the Agilent equipment, software and biology things in general. Sorry in advance for the newbie questions. 
 I am supporting from the IT infrastructure point of view our scientists using those tools. 
 After looking around, I couldn't find a reliable way to know programmatically and externally from Masshunter, if a method is started/running/done (or more granular status info), and also if the qualitative data and report is available. 
 In other vendor tools, there are crude ways to be notified for instance when the analysis report is done and actually receive it automatically via email or by calling an external binary. 
 
 Is there some more programmer/automation oriented documentation for Masshunter I should go over? 
 My interest is in getting documentation of the different configuration files (e.g. Methods, Worklist), being able to generate them, load them automatically, and retrieve the data and reports when we know the methods/analysis is done. 
 
 thanks for any pointers if there is anything.

howard_sanford · Answer

Hello jhuylebroeck , 
 If you have a TOF or QTOF system, you may want to investigate our MassHunter WalkUp software . This software allows multiple users to easily submit samples. The system can be set up to email users their reports once the sample runs are complete. It also offers some options for monitoring the system usage and status. 
 Outside of WalkUp, you could automate qual reporting in your acquisition method and have the generated reports go to a specified folder. You could then monitor this folder for the reports. 
 Be aware that you will need to be careful to not aggressively monitor these locations. MassHunter has no significant buffering during data acquisition, so it is possible that excessive network traffic or hard drive activity on the acquisition PC could cause an error with data acquisition. 
 If this is on a TQ system, typically you will be looking for quant reports. There are not as many automation solutions for these workflows, but there are a few. 
 You can use report method post processing to copy quant reports as they are generated to a specified location. 
 (+) Introducing PDF Style Reporting and Copy to LIMS - Wiki - Mass Spectrometry Software - Agilent Community 
 You can also automate the batch creation and analysis process by using the Study Manager to submit your worklist with an established quant method. Details can be found in this post. 
 (+) How to make the amt && total amount available from worklist for LCMSMS masshunter Analysis Batch? - Mass Spectrometry Software User Forum - Mass Spectrometry Software - Agilent Community