A pattern in a gp seems most user friendly. Not sure many people will know or want to make a groovy script to do it. Make a few constants that they can put in to get the location, device id, current millisecond time, etc.
Ben On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com>wrote: > We've been discussing that it will also be useful to make these ids > (including patient identifiers) unique in space because since we might be > using offline id creation, we could have a conflict if the ids were > generated at the same time. So a combination of them being unique in space > (through location/device id) and in time (current time upto sec) should be > good enough for them to avoid conflicts. > > --- > Regards, > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA > > My Tech Blog: http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE > > > > On 14 May 2012 17:08, Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR) > <r...@cdc.gov>wrote: > >> For the lab module on which I am working, I need to generate unique IDs >> for lab orders, specimens and reports. These IDs should be in a >> user-specified format containing some or all of the following elements: >> patient ID, current year, current month, current day, sequential number, >> check digit, string constant. I am trying to decide on how the user is to >> specify this: a pattern stored in a global property, some sort of >> interpretable scripting language, a groovy snippet, whatever. Does anybody >> have any suggestions, patterns to follow, examples? **** >> > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<lists...@listserv.iupui.edu?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:lists...@listserv.iupui.edu?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
