Null appears in "Notes" in Tasklist when Checked-In from a Schedule

Submitted by Matt C on Mon, 24/01/2011 - 09:50

General User's Discussion

Hey everyone,

Happy New Year!

This is something my receptions staff have been asking me lately. When we check in a scheduled appointment into a worklist we get a "null" text added to the Notes field in the newly created Task.

Any idea where there is created?

Matt C

Re: Null appears in "Notes" in Tasklist when Checked-In from ...

Submitted by tony on Mon, 24/01/2011 - 11:43.

Hi Matt,

Have you setup a display expression on your Worklist ?

If so if there is no notes the expression may be displaying the null rather than a null text being actually in the note. Often standard string expressions will display an empty string as null so if want to remove need to check for null in expression and display nothing if null and the string if not.

Cheers

Tony

Re: Null appears in "Notes" in Tasklist when Checked-In from ...

Submitted by gretalloyd on Wed, 18/04/2012 - 09:47.

Hi Matt and Tony,

One of the vets has asked that the 'null' doesn't appear (I never even noticed it did) on the worklist. I am presuming this is when there isn't a note created first. My display expression is:

concat(substring(openvpms:get(., 'customer.name'),0,20),' - ',
substring(openvpms:get(., 'patient.name'),0,15),' - ',
'(',openvpms:get(., 'patient.objectReference')/id,')', '\n',
openvpms:get(., 'clinician.name'),'\n',
substring(openvpms:get(.,'act.description'),0,100))

and the null appears in the last line. ie null - vomiting

Do I need to edit an archetype? Which one?

Thanks heaps,

Greta

Re: Null appears in "Notes" in Tasklist when Checked-In from ...

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 13:46.

This will occur if you create an appointment with a Reason of "None"

If you select an appointment reason, the 'null' won't appear.

You can also make one of the Appointment Reason lookups the default (in Administration -> Lookups), to avoid selecting a reason each you create an appointment.

-Tim