[Gnumed-devel] Re: feature request: partless docs

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:13:39AM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > Anyone who has had to look through several pages with a choice of  
> > whether to look at them on paper, on on a computer screen, may prefer to 
> > look at them on paper if they already existed rather than to just scan 
> > them and only be able to review their scanned incarnations. And if they 
> > already existed on paper and the practice had decided to keep their paper 
> > and *not* go to the trouble of scanning everything, we want to be able to 
> > support that.
> >
> > What paper charts lack is any easy way to know, without painful page- 
> > flipping, what is in there.
> >
> > The document archive could nicely serve as an index of what is available 
> > concerning a patient, without *necessarily* having to include a scanned 
> > copy. Presently the GUI will complain "No pages to save. Acquire some 
> > pages first."
> 
> > 2) I suggest that it be configurable whether the widget will allow the 
> > saving of what is essentially a pointer to the original document. This 
> > already enjoyed some discussion e.g. with respect to DICOM images. A 
> > configuration setting would allow the dialog to instead say:
> >
> >     "No parts to save. Really save an <empty> Document as a reference?"
> >
> > Default button would be "No" but the user would be permitted to choose 
> > "Yes". It would be easily decided by the reviewing physician if some 
> > other user decision needed correction, they could always add the part 
> > then."

Done. There's now a config option as to whether to allow
empty docs or not. If allowed the user is asked for
confirmation before saving an empty doc.

Karsten
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