# Guideline Management

(view_all_guidelines_recipe)=
## View all information for available guidelines

* Navigate to the Guidelines page
* Search for a guideline for slect one from the list
* Click the guideline of interest to view detailed information, including
  guideline value, units, and reference

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(view_guidelines_without_analytes_recipe)=
## Quickly see which guidelines have standards that need to be linked with analytes.

* Navigate to Manage > Guidelines and Cofactors page
* Guidelines highlighted in yellow have one or more standards without any
  analyte links assigned

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(link_guideline_to_analyte_recipe)=
## Link an existing guideline to an existing analyte

* Navigate to Manage > Guidelines and Cofactors
* Click the Edit button on the guideline of interest
* Use the Guideline Standards card to locate the standard of interest
* Click the green + Analyte button
* Select an analyte from the Linked Analyte dropdown menu
* Click SAVE

**Alternative method:**

* Navigate to Manage > Analytes page
* Search for the analyte of interest and click VIEW
* in the Referenced guideline standards card, click the green LINK TO GUIDELINE
  STANDARD button
* Select a guideline and click SAVE

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(choose_cofactor_strategy_recipe)=
## Select a guideline cofactor strategy

* Navigate to Manage > Guidelines and Cofactors
* Click the COFACTORS tab
* Scroll down to Cofactor Calculation Strategy card and click EDIT button
* Select a strategy
    * No default value for cofactor
        * No default value set. Guideline standard calculations that contain
          cofactors are skipped.
    * Use a single unchanging value for each cofactor
        * Set a single, static value for each cofactor. Calculations will ONLY
          use these static values and **will ignore values from other sources
          (such as station data).**
    * Calculate values from same sample (with default values)
        * If station data exists for a cofactor, it is used to calculate a
          guideline standard. Otherwise, the default value is used.

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(link_analyte_as_cofactor_recipe)=
## Select an analyte as a cofactor for guideline standard calculation
* Navigate to Manage > Guidelines and Cofactors
* Click the COFACTORS tab
* In the Cofactors card, click the EDIT button for the cofactor of interest
* Select an analyte from the Link Analyte dropdown
* Click SAVE