Re: [Gnumed-devel] improved medication list

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:44:33AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > So the good old
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Metoprolol 95mg 1-0-0
> > 
> > still looks the best version
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > For the inclined patient...
> 
> We likely agree to the value of more than one kind of printout, depending on 
> the purpose (context).

Surely. That is already possible (albeit not very friendly -
I still need to implement pre-filtering of the template
selection list).

> Perhaps this is best handled by allowing a choice not only
> in the GNUmed per-user (or per workspace/place
> configuration) but maybe also enabling a user choice
> (over-ride, alternate choice) at the time of printing?

Easy to do but needs resources (as in time spent coding).

> User selection could be helped by either
> i) supplying defined choices in the print dialog, with one among a variety of 
> printing templates gets user-associated with each, or

That is what happens now except that it shows *all*
paperwork templates rather than only the relevant ones.

> ii) by providing (??) inside each template a descriptor
> line which would (from the point of view of the print job)
> be ignored -- for example, commented out -- but able to be
> read by the GNUmed medication module.

What end would that be intended to serve ?

> Multiple templates could be "known-about", some configured
> to be active and others inactive...

That already works.

> at the time of print selection, the descriptors could be
> parsed/refreshed to inform the user's choice?

We do that. If the user never selected a meds list template
she will be presented with a list of (too many) choices.
Whatever the user chooses will become her default for the
next time around until it is reconfigured from the
configuration section.

Karsten
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