Re: Text expansions (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: GNUmed for acupuncture)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:58:41PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> On 2010-01-25, at 5:45 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
> 

>> For example GNUmed has a feature called "Text Expansions"
>> wich you can easily edit in the client and it turns a
>> predefined small text into a bigger paragraph or letter. 
> 
> Do text expansions work only in SOAP notes?

So far, yes.

> Is "undo" something possible to implement,

It is very difficult to do right.

I don't see the immediate value beyond sometimes being convenient.

The difficulty in establishing a natural place for the menu
option attests to why it is hard -- it isn't well defined.

We do have some "Undo" functionality in a few places (edit
areas, for example, or when editing a progress note).

Karsten
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