Re: [Gnumed-devel] Open Office templates

[Jerzy Luszawski]

Hello, 

I'm glad this topic came out right now, because I'm trying to use OO templates 
as a mean of getting nice printed reports (surgery reports, to be specific).

Saturday 30 August 2008 18:50:35 Karsten Hilbert napisał(a):
> 
> a) the currently implemented way of putting placeholder into the templates
> was a bit more work than even I wanted to go to great lengths just for 
> demonstration :-)

> b) there aren't *that* many placeholders implemented yet (however, there are
> some and they are already in daily use by one of our deployed users)
I would prefer storing a list of needed placeholders with template. This way 
the procedure requesting a template would know what placeholders it must 
supply, and it would be easy to get the data from backend and feed it to the 
placeholder handler. This would be more flexible than a large list of global 
placeholders.
Example: I write operation report, and I just want to click "print" button to 
print exactly this one report. All I need is a template and a way to pass data 
to placeholder handler. 
The amount of data is fixed and it can be fetched as one database query.
Even better,an SQL query with parameters can be stored with template in the 
backend (similar to the string in _cmd_fetch_payload for EMR items).
What do you all think? 


> 
> The good news is that recently I found some Python code on the web which will
> enable us to have way more user-friendly placeholders in the OOo templates. 
Could you post a link?

> One 
> would then literally write in OOo:
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> Dear $Title$ $Lastname$,
> 
I don't find current method using OO fields too difficult or inconvenient, and 
it is certainly more foolproof than plain text placeholders. You do not create 
templates every day, do you?

Regards, 
Jerzy Luszawski