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Re: Copying appointments
Hi Di,
No way to copy an appointment to multiple locations at present. The current techinique for moving appointments is a straight Cut & Paste.
Others interested? I'm sure it could be done.
Matt C
Re: Copying appointments
Copying appointments would be a great feature. Main use for us would be weekly Pentosan Inj.
Bernie
Re: Copying appointments
I think we should develop two enhancements.
1. Copy function. So can easily copy single appointments.
2. Recurring Appointments. Have a recurring tick box in the new appointment editor which when ticked allows you to nominate recurring options such as how often and how many. When saved the appointments will be created automatically. This could be used to setup blocking appointments as well .. a overdue feature :-)
Cheers
Tony
Re: Copying appointments
Wonderful idea - I raised its lack after Cut & Paste appeared but it was never taken up and my staff hate blocking out appointments so they for one will plug for this one.
Cheers,
Nick
Re: Copying appointments
Sounds great, blocking appointments is always time consuming, so staff would love it!
Cheers
Di
Re: Copying appointments
Hi Guys,
Ok , I think we have enough information and can now create a development project. There is an existing one we can use and modify to suit.
http://www.openvpms.org/project/schedule-blocking
I will create a JIRA based on the discussion and get developers to cost so we can then secure funding.
Cheers
Tony
Re: Copying appointments
Hi Tony,
How will we handle future booking conflicts for recurring appointments?
Matt C
Re: Copying appointments
Hi Matt,
I noted this issue in the develoment project notes. I think options are ignore or notify.
Ignore may be best option if schedule concerned allows double booking.
Notify can work two ways. Add appointments with no conflict and notify of dates/times that had conflicts or don't add any appointments , notify user of conflicts and allow user to change recurring information.
Will need some feedback on what usesr consider best approach.
Cheers
Tony
Re: Copying appointments
Thanks Tony,
Ahh, I see that this was raised in the development project notes. Does everyone get notifications from the development projects? It might be the best place to have this discussion.
In the meantime however,
I think "Notify" with " Add appointments with no conflict and notify of dates/times" would work best for us. All our schedules are single booking only.
A note regarding Schedule Views. I would assume that recurring appointments would be created in the same schedule the first appointment was created in. To clarify with an example, we use 4 appointment schedules (columns) in our reception Schedule View. They generally fill from left to right. I would imagine if we created a recurring pentosan injection appointment in column 1, the remaining appointments would appear in column 1 and not find available slots in columns 2-4.
Also should we add to this specification the ability to have a new appointment type ("blocking") which prevents new appointmentss. Currently we just use a customer called "Daybook" and a patient called "No Consults" to block.
This is a great idea and worth discussing.
Look forward to hearing others opinions.
Matt