Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medication lists

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:23:27PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> > … is it acceptable to make "Started" optional?
> > 
> > Not easily cleanly, technically. 
> 
> Is the 'technical' difficulty the removal, from 'started', of a non-null 
> constraint in the schema, or is the difficulty to revise the middleware or 
> GUI code?

The difficulty is in that clin.substance_intake is a child
of clin.root_item, having .clin_when (which clearly exists
for substance intakes, namely .when_started, even if not
known) which itself is strongly desired to be non-NULL.

Karsten
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