ok, that worked to retroactively handle those, but there is a big problem. in the study admin, you can define default QC states for data imported through the pipeline, assays, etc. for the time being, we want to have the default value of all imported record set to 'approved'. the problem is that it seems that on each pipeline study import, these values are reset - they go back to being blank. i had another similar support post, but is there any way to define these values in the XML files, so they are remembered on each new study import? otherwise each night we'll lose QC states on the last 6 months of records.

thanks for the help.