Dialogue Box Field Order
Has anyone else had concerns about the fields in the report dialogue boxes that come up in Open VPMS being all over the place. With reports that have multiple fields to enter, the date fields are not beside each other, or directly under each other. This has created some input errors at our practice at times.
I have noticed the same thing with patient or client letters when there are multiple fields to be added. The fields are out of order, or at least not in the order that they appear on the page.
These are not major issues but thought they might be able to be tidied up next time an update is done, if others have noticed this & are concerned about it. We all get used to a lot of things that are not quite right, and it is only brought to our attention when new staff notice irregularities in the program.
Cheers,
Glen
Re: Dialogue Box Field Order
The order of report fields depends on how the report template returns them.
Is the report template a Jasper Report, OpenOffice document, or Word document?
Do the fields consistently appear in one order, or does the order vary each time?
-Tim
Re: Dialogue Box Field Order
Hi Tim and Glen,
We mainly see this when writing our patient letters.
In this case it is an OpenOffice doc.
The fields are always in the same order but trying to sort the way they appear has been beyond us also. I've got this suspicion it is to do with the order in which they have been created/inserted.
I would go on to say that the project here ;
http://www.openvpms.org/project/direct-editing-openoffice-documents which is 100% funded
is followed by this project
http://www.openvpms.org/project/direct-editing-documents-using-milton-pa...
currently seeking funding.
Part 2 would largely remove the need for user fields altogether as we would be able to directly edit templates with a single click. This wopuld remove any character limit and allow more free form revisions of formatting etc. It is 10% funded with a toatl price tag of $5140.
Cheers,
Matt C