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MEDITECH NPR – Custom F9 Lookups for Client Server NPR Reports

NOTE: This is an advanced topic, the author assumes the reader has an intermediate level of skill on the NPR Report Writer.

If you're looking to mimic the functionality in a standard MEDITECH lookup, the MEDITECH Z.id program will get the job done. The information in your lookup can be a simple list or generated from MEDITECH data. Using Z.id, you can create a lookup for a standard field or a custom field, the process is the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To get started, read the rest of this article in the February MEDITECH Bulletin.

 

MEDITECH Questions

How do you add a comma in the thousands place?

eg. 1000.00 = 1,000.00 or 1000000.00 = 1,000,000.00

Read the MEDITECH Answer here.

How do you use a predefined list in an NPR LI Select?

I have tried both LI and CL with my criteria ("ED", "PNP") and I am crashing my report.  

Read the MEDITECH Answer here. 

Where can I find the MEDITECH Programmer's User Manual?  

Read the MEDITECH Answer here. 

Come to the MEDITECH KE and ask a question of your own. 

Clinical Calculators for MEDITECH Programmers

MEDITECH Report Writers are often called on to include Clinical Calculations in an NPR Report or MEDITECH Attribute.

Bookmark the Medical Calculator page, it might come in handy later.

* Reference: http://www.globalrph.com/medcalcs.htm

Improve your MEDITECH (CS) NPR Report Performance

BUF NONE, it's not just for pretty translation screens & readable object code.

This overlooked NPR FOOTNOTE can improve the performance of your MEDITECH reports. Joe's tip in the Iatric Systems, December 2009 Newsletter explains why you might want to use this FOOTNOTE in most of your Client Server NPR reports.

Quoting the MEDITECH NPR Manual: "To turn off buffering, enter BUF NONE in the report's footnote section. If a report has a VAL statement that attempts to replace elements with buffered results increasing a line's length longer than 255 characters, a translation error message appears."

 

@Macro Makes for Readable Code

NPR Report Writer, Ben Dorsey, at Iatric Systems, cleverly used @Macro in a recent MEDITECH CS Report. Not being familiar with @Macro, I've compiled it in a report to share it with you.

@Macro works by dynamically compiling the local macro named init, into NPR object code.

NPR macros become unweildy, when their length extends beyond a couple hundred lines; at which time, NPR Macro Editor Screen corruption is possible, risking macro integrity.

Upside:

• You don't have to call each macro by its fully qualified name. This saves you trouble later, when the report is copied or renamed.
• Macros are easier to read & edit, because they are shorter.

Downside: Translate your report after any changes - and I'm not sure there is one.

MEDITECH Data Definitions, Only Easier

If you've been writing reports for awhile, you've found that MEDITECH Data Definitions are essential to your success in writing reports. Report writers, everywhere, use them on a daily basis.

If you'd like to learn how to search them all at once, read the rest here in the MEDITECH Community Bulletin. 

 

MEDITECH Advanced Database (MAD)

If you haven't seen the new MEDITECH Database internals for 6.0.

You'll enjoy Frank's article on the MEDITECH Advanced Database (MAD).

 

 

MEDITECH Text to Upper or Lower Case

Most programming languages have a lot of different functions for manipulating text, example: converting text to lower OR upper case.

Come kick off a new section in The MEDITECH KE, a MEDITECH Community Wiki, titled String Manipulation. The first entry is titled 1 way to Convert MEDITECH Text to Lower or Upper Case.

 

Meditech Data Repository Structures Published for 6.x

Sure is nice to see that green 6.0 peeking out there: http://meditech.com/prdr/Pages/DRxbASTables.htm.