The due date mergefield now works ok......... I notice, however, that if a reminder is classified as interactive, the form produces a next vaccination date that is the default value for that reminder.  For example, if I have a C3 vax Temp vax with an interactive reminder that has a default of 4 weeks, but I interactively set it to 6 weeks to revax at 12 weeks, the endtime printed is for 4 weeks' time.

I also have a problem with the increasing length of these mergefields when it comes to designing forms in OpenOffice: what you see in OO is not necessarily what you get on paper.  Creating forms with tables containing longer mergefields can push table borders right and down and they don't shrink back when the field contents are shorter than the mergefield name. Is it possible for mergefield names to be shortened?

I think there also needs to be expanded date and time handling.  This is important as the documents that clients see need to be clear and concise.

What I'd like to see are some extra mergefields that break up the date into practical portions that are relevant to client handouts such as vaccination certificates or planned reviews.

At a minimum, I believe we need month (just the three letter code for month) and year so that a vaccination certificate will read "next vaccination due Sep 2013" rather than "next vaccination due 3/09/2013" which
* isn't as readable on a certificate,
* offers a level of precision that isn't required a year out and
* also stresses some clients into believing their pet already has an appointment for the 3/9/2013. 

Perhaps also a "startDate" field, which is just the date without a time component: perfect for grouping multi-day invoices by startDate, then sortOrder. 

These three date-handling fields would make documents that clients see more logical and easy to understand.

I do like your suggestion of  "have the Add Visit & Note button display the note in a tab" (message near top of thread). I find I jump out of the current note back into previous history several times a day. Being able to TAB into the summary, and back into current note would be of great benefit rather than save/close/read previous history/back into current note.

I'm also seeing the misplaced thought bubbles in both workflow/worklists and Workflow/scheduling.

Yuri.

We went "live" with v1.6beta2 over the weekend and have immediately discovered "issues" with the new version.

We almost got caught with the misplaced thought bubble - fortunately my nurse knew that the bubble couldn't apply to the client it pointed to.

We're finding more serious issues with the new visit editor.  Firstly I can say that if you check-in, then consult, then invoice then bill then check out a client in one fell swoop the system works fine.  Where it all comes adrift is if you try to come back to a particular visit during the course of the day (for example an animal is admitted) without having placed at least one invoice item at the first "consult".

Here's an example: this animal is checked-in.  I then examine the animal, click on "Consult" in Worklists, then "New | Note" and type in my initial note.  I then click "Ok" to go back to "worklists" (I haven't invoiced anything yet).  A few minutes later, I click on "Consult" in Worklists to add some more information to the consult: I've done this for 12 months without difficulty.  However a new "No Reason" visit has appeared underneath my original visit, and the focus is on this new "No Reason" visit.

No worries, I think, I'll just delete this rogue new visit.... I click on "Delete" and I'm asked to confirm.  Note that the focus is on the "No Reason" visit........

..... and WHOA!!!! the original visit is deleted.  This is a totally repeatable occurrence.

Ok, I've learned my lesson.... leave that "No Reason" visit alone.  Next patient is admitted, I "consult", click "ok".  The clinical exam is ok, so my nurse"consults", click on "Invoices" tab and adds an Hospitalisation fee.  I go and do a GHP, come back, "consult" and, with the focus on the correct visit Add new attachment and amend the note to update the work done. When I click "ok", I note that the Hospitalisation fee has been placed in the "No reason" visit, NOT the visit on which the focus has been when I started the "consult" process.

I wondered if my nurse had added the fee to the wrong visit, so at the end of the procedure, I was VERY careful to ensure the focus was on the "Surgery" visit, completed my Notes, click on Invoicing and billed out the procedure.  Unfortunately, I find that OpenVPMS has placed all invoicing and medication information in the "No Reason" visit.   It doesn't matter that I have the focus on the current visit, OpenVPMS has placed all invoicing and medication information in the "No Reason" visit.

The only way I can fix this is to create a new Note in the No Reason visit, copy all the note content from the "proper" visit to the No Reason visit, add the attachment to the No Reason visit and then finally delete the original "proper" visit. 

Documents created also get attached to the "No Reason" visit as well as Invoicing and Medication.

Invoicing issues:

1. If I keep an animal overnight and perform a procedure, adding notes and invoices as I go along, I acquire multiple sets of invoicing and medication!

When I look in the Charges section there is only one set of charges, so OV's only written multiple copies into the Summary record.

2. Species specificity in invoicing has been lost in the upgrade, for example in v1.5.1 if you're invoicing a cat spey, you'll only see Products that match the Species (ie Feline) of the patient: not any more: any product matching the filter is shown in the selection window (so here I'm getting both Canine and Feline Products).

3. Finally, jumping to the Invoice tab used to place the cursor at Product ready to type in your appropriate fee.  You now have to click on the Product field to start entering data.

Hope this helps.

Yuri

(aka "CrashTestDummy")