Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Re: [Gnumed-devel] Getting closer... but still need some help

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Back onto gnumed-devel from gnumed-bugs and the question of slave-mode
> being passive, ... what I am further realizing is that my billing software
> will, on user demand, do both of:
> 
>       write a patient in CA-MSVA format
>       chain to a Windows .bat file

That's great.

> So can the .bat file call a passive slave script in a way to trigger
> GNUmed to call the "Person > Load external" command,

Sure. The .bat file can effect a waiting, passive slave to do that.
It employs the XML-RPC API for that as exemplified in gm_ctl_client.py.

> following which
> 
> 1) if
> 
>       GNUmed > Preferences > User interface > Person > Immediate source
> activation
> 
> gets set to default "Yes" (0)

"0" means "No" because in Otaku speak 0 is False.

>       except that the bootstrap sets it to 1 so maybe should be fixed

The *bootstrap* certainly doesn't set it to anything. It doesn't
set it at all. It will carry it over from previous databases, however,
upon *upgrading*.

What's setting the default is the GNUmed client python code when it first
reads that option and doesn't find it. And then it defaults to 0.

> 2) provided
> 
>       only one single loadable patient resides in the available external
> file(s)
> 
> then GNUmed slave, by calling the "Person > Load external" command, would
> 
> a) (on debugging the duplicate-patient problem)
> 
>        if only one name / dob match exists, move the slave to the existing
> patient
>
> b) if no name match, create and auto-navigate to the patient
>
> c) if multiple name match, present a list to the user

Yep, that's entirely the intended workflow barring bugs.

I do know that it worked at some point - I've personally see it happen
with xDT format sources.

> So if we
> 
> - debug the duplicates
> - set default above to 0 (I can to it manually on my own install)
> - identify what the slave script, upon being called, must itself contain
> in order to call the slave instance's
>       "Person > Load external" command
> - identify how .bat can call the slave script
> 
> Then we will have a working use case of
> 
>       CA billing software drives GNUmed in an effective slave mode

That's an excellent, well-defined definition of a use case.

I'm sure we can effect that for 0.9.

Karsten

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