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How To Set Your MEDITECH CS 5.6 Print Preferences

Posted by John Sharpe on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 @ 03:00 PM
  
 

Set MEDITECH Printer       To set your default printer (just like you can in Microsoft Windows): next time you print, check out the MEDITECH 5.6 Print Preferences button to the right of your screen. 

      Since my work usually involves loading vendor databases, data marts and warehouses, my default should be Download.  Maybe your default will be the printer at your desk.

 

   Meditech Printer Preference Set

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If you don't mind, I'd like to share a few notes about downloading. Not sure how many people know these things: 
 
 
 
1) At the Target prompt, you can press F9 to invoke Windows' Save dialog to find the folder you want to save your file in. 
 
 
 
2) If you press F9 and navigate to a folder, then type a file name in the Save box, the file extension may not show up in Meditech's Target path. ** Make sure to check for a file extension! ** Otherwise you'll have no extension and you'll either have to rename the file or maybe deal with being asked what app you want to use to open the file. 
 
 
 
3) Zip Password & Re-enter password are new to 5.6. The idea is, Meditech now lets you create a password-protected .zip file if you want. If you leave them blank, you'll end up with a regular text file. If you decide to enter a password, the resulting file will be .zip, and you'll need to remember the password you enter here to open it. 
 
 
 
4) If you enter a path to a folder to which you do not have write access, you won't know that until the download "finishes". At no time will Meditech tell you you're trying to write to a path to which you don't have access. You'll get "Download Complete" but no file. Sidenote: Report runtime will take much longer than normal if you try to download to a path to which you don't have access. 
 
 
 
5) IMHO, UNC paths are better than using the network drive letter, especially if you're scheduling the download. The MIS Report Scheduler background job machine may/may not have network drives like your workstation may have.
Posted @ Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:19 PM by Craig LeBeau
Great tips Craig, thank you!
Posted @ Monday, January 02, 2012 3:00 PM by John Sharpe
Also: Meditech doesn't like more than one period in the filename, and that's the one right before the extension! Silly Meditech.
Posted @ Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:30 AM by Mitch Lawrence
Yes - I noticed that too!
Posted @ Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:02 AM by John Sharpe
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