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title: "Tutorial - Empty Plates and New Barcode"
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# Tutorial - Empty Plates and New Barcode

## Introduction

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create three empty 96-well plates using automatically generated barcodes.

## Prerequisites

              Required permissions

              

**Sample Processing** role is required to access this workflow.

## Workflow

### Job Creation

[Create a new job](/public/docs/jobs-overview#create-a-job) and select the `Empty Container Creation` workflow.

### Requesting

- Choose **Plate** as Request Type
- Choose Request From: **Automatic Generation**
- Select **3** as Number of Container
- Select **Greiner PP96V** as Target Container Type
- Set **Inventory** as Target Container Usage
- Click `Next`

### Storing

The [Storing step](/public/docs/jobs-overview#storing) allows you to assign a location to the items involved in the job. Three empty 96-well plates have been created.

- Click `Assign Location to Selected`
- Select **Paris** and click `Select` to confirm your choice.
- Click `Next`.

### Pipe & Close

The [Pipe & Close step](/public/docs/jobs-overview#pipe-close) provides a summary page where you can review the job and optionally pipe it to another workflow. You can also pipe this job to another one, allowing you to immediately start a new job using the output from this one. For this tutorial, click the `Close & Quit` button to finish the job.