Thanks Chris!

I don't mind keeping track of pledges etc Chris, provided they keep coming! I do ask for people's patience though. I generally try to do OpenVPMS stuff once a week/fortnight, so if you pledge and don't receive a response I WILL get back to you.

I'll be updating several of the projects you have expressed interest in Chris over the day.

Cheers again.

I'm sure I'll be getting pledges from others in addition to Chris & Glen... especially those who attended the meeting ;)

Matt C

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:33:14 +1000, wrote:

Was a great meeting, long overdue.Great idea's came out of it and is going to cost money to make it happen!!I think that pledging 10% to a project is reasonable as it means that it has to have 10 people interested enough to fund it so is a worthwhile project. Bugger of a job for Matt to keep tract of, appreciate it greatly Matt. I will pledge 10% to the following projects1/ SMS2/ Text filter on histories3/ Animal age change. I feel that after the changeover it should also display years and months or years to one decimal point.4/ Multiselection of products, customers and patients with increased filters incl manufacturer, supplier, group and type for the products. This to included the previous and next button5/ Electronic Supply Chain. I think we should develop a generic simple interface to allow deliveries to be added to the system easily until and integrated one is developed. This would be as simple as allowing a bar code reader to interface and allow changes to be made to pricing and quantity (on shelf and delivered). I will go a big hunk on this 20-30%6/ Alerts with statusHope we can get some action happening.Thanks again MattChris

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:05 PM, <mpcosta@boroniavet.com.au> wrote:

Hi everyone. Below is a summary of the projects we ran through at the users meeting last night. Please note that the responses and views are only those of the members present. However if there was a project that failed to receive support that you feel strongly about, it might be advisable to either get campaigning in the forum topic or get pledging! Last note, I'm not sure how well the links below work in the email you receive on the mailing list. If they dont work, jump onto the forum and link from the forum post itself. Very last point, excuse my terrible spelling.   1. SMS Project the first steps This project received only a  luke warm response. The breakdown of costings were published on the site today but everyone was informed about them last night. 1.1 Customer summary button Some points were made about the SMS text editor needing to have access to text macros which it is confirmed they will have. One user suggested that using them to as a courtesy reminder for appointments would be handy. It would require a button on every valid appointment I have created a forum topic post here as I think it requires some discussion.   1.2 SMS reminders Were seen as good but not perhaps a priority when considering where users were going to spend their development budgets.   2. Text Filter on Summary tab of Patient Medical Records A couple of semi-interested parties on this one. We talked about it's usefulness being somewhat dependent on the use of standard keywords amongst clinicians (eg. Search "otitis" and just see the records related to the patients ear problem). Also covered that searching (atleast on one page) was already able to be done through the browser (Ctl-F).   3. Support for other Customer and Patient Form types This one was a hot one and it brought in several projects. We talked about the concept of; a) A new document/template type which contains just static text (eg. a PDF). b) A new type of document selector (described here) that will show/filter templates according to them belonging to document Types/Lookups/Classifications (Tony will have some input here I'm sure!) c) Having a print button per document, allowing arbitary numbers to be printed easily. d) Having a "Print Quantity" selector beside the print button.   4. Change Preview button in Estimations to Print Button The inability of reprinting estiomation barely raised an eyebrow! Most attendees did not have a big issue with previewing prior to printing... Looks like this one may go the way of the dinosaur unless there is strong support in the next few weeks....   5. Animal Age Changes Strong support. I expect to see some pledges on this one now guys....   6. New style of multiselection box for edting yardy yardy yar..... Super strong support. This one should be funded very quickly. If I get a surplus of funds I will divide the contributions up amongst the number of supporters. (Note: If this happy circumstance occurs you might want to think about spending the saving on another project?  ) Note that this project has had some of the costings revised and broken down here as a result of the discussions last night. Please note those who were at the meeting. I wrongly quoted >$650 for the "Next-Previous" buttons which have been added to the project description. The correct costing is a mere $165 for those two buttons. Anyway, there was strong opinion to include the Customer and Patient workspaces in this project. There was a request to add some more filters and columns to the patient search results which I have posted here The Batch editing of Customers and Patients was not a huge talking point. Everyone was happy with the filters suggested in the project description.   7. The Electronic Supply Chain Interface Project Lots of talking and it sounds like the Victorian users are going to come to the party on this one. Stay tuned for future details as they emerge. There was a general appreciation of Cenvets efforts in driving this project.   8. Minor Tweaks (Under Discussion) Overall strong support for almost ALL of the points in this one. We  added some more. I will poach from the UI ideas project and send in a list to the developers soon. I'll expect strong support from the back pocket given the support for most of these last night! a. Autoselection of textbox contents - Written off. There are technical issues with this Tweak meaning if we want it, it will be more then a mere tweak b. Patient+ Customer selection carried through when making appointment c. Search buttons taken out of the tab order d. Default highlight option in Worklist and Schedule views e. New Invoice box - default selection of the "Invoice" option so users can just "Enter" through this box and arrow key navigation within it. f. Administration->Templates - focus automatically in the textbox to start a search g. Tick boxes should be selected via "Space" rather then "Enter" key. h. Alt-P shortcut to be added to all Print buttons.   9. Customer search results remain after selection (Under Discussion) Due to the Customer and Patient workspaces being included in the multiselect project, this project was seen as unessasary.   10. Batch Editing of Customer and Patients (Under Discussion) As mentioned before, not a lot of interest in this one.   11. User Interface Ideas (Ongoing) Sadly my printer didn't print these out! Something to do with corrupt tables. So we missed these. I suggest we all look at them and give our thumbs up or down in the user interface ideas section here.   12. The OpenVPMS Business Toolkit (Ongoing) The general consensus was that reporting in OpenVPMS is deficient for many peoples needs. It was suggested however that with afew more report templates this would largely be overcome. I suggested that this mechanism has been available for some time and that the shared resources section of the website is full of user requested reports. However, I think that if people really want reports that they need to a) Be specific about what they want. b) Be prepared to pay for the report templates. Tony can generate reports quite rapidly but his time is not free. I can generate reports much more slowly.... so I am much more expensive then him!   Fire away guys. This problem is yours to solve.   13. Customer and Patient Alert Changes (Stalled) Everyone was dissapointed tis one had stalled. Maybe I had given up on this one a bit too early. I will revive it and break it up into parts over the next week or so. You are all welcome to pick up the discussion  as it stands within the forum here.   14. Dose Calculation (Stalled) Not much love for this one I'm afraid. However there is a new forum  topic coming from a very simple suggestion of having Dispensing Notes visible when writing labels. See here for forum  topic and here for active project.   15. Support for Multiple Stock Locations (Stalled) Not relevant to anyone at the meeting. Sorry. This one stays stalled.   16. Interactive reminder interval or due date for reminder types (Stalled) Some mild interest. It was late by this time, so maybe that had something to do with it! Regardless, if this is desirable for others (or those at the meeting but you were too tired to say!) make your interest known and get this project off the stalled list.   17. Printing multiple copies of a document Originally this project was mainly focused on adding a number selector  to the interactive print dialog (eg. 1,2,3,4 etc). Avoiding pressing the print button multiple times was the original motivation and as Glen correctly suggested last night, avoiding the small delay between pressing print and being able to press it again. There was a comment made that some documents have a fixed number of copies printed routinely. For example, 4 x admission labels. Therefore I have un-stalled this project and added the requirement to add a "Default number of copies printed" in the Template description.The new wording of the project is here and the new forum topic discussing the option is here Finally it adds another detail to the new document selector described in 3. above, to have a number of copies selector beside the print button that by default will have a number set in the product description. If no number has been set the default is 1 copy.   Some new suggestions emerged during discussions. 18. Streamline invoice status changes In Invoicing, to make Status updating more efficeint and intuitive it was suggested that; a) The "OK" button be renamed "Done" and that it would automatically change the status to "Billed". b) A new button was added called "In Progress". This would close the invoice editor and change the status to "In Progress" c) All buttons should have keyobard shortcuts. The other invoice statuses were not used by the users at the meeting and their purpose queried.   19. Streamline invoice item adding When invoicing automatically be in "Add" mode as soon as invoice is opened (rather then focus in Notes) and after a product selection is made, automatically starts a new addition. These two new ideas have been added as a new forum topic here and will turn into an active project if there is enough interest.   Thats all I can rememember!   Matt C _______________________________________________ OpenVPMS User Mailing List users@lists.openvpms.org To unsubscribe or change your subscription visit: //lists.openvpms.org/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.openvpms.org/listinfo/users Posts from this mailing list can be viewed online and replied to in the OpenVPMS User's forum- //tinyurl.com/openvfu" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/openvfu