On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:49:47PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > 1. the file patients.txt ... can there be multiple copies i.e. one on the > legacy server machine, and one on the legacy client machine? Yes.
> If yes, does > GNUmed parse both, and provide the user with a combined list in the > dropdown? Yes. > Is there a suggested practical limit to the number of names in > the list, in order to avoid slowing down GNUmed if this is a risk? It is a risk. There is a practical limit which I would estimate at around 50 patients but it is machine-dependant. > 2. does patients.txt support carrying a legacy machine uniqueID for the > patient, The legacy/external source importer can even attach a unique source ID for sources which do not provide one. > and is it supported (or should we then support it) as the GNUmed > external_id? It is supported. > 2. is the file patients.txt usable to undertake a batch import in GNUmed? Not currently. We would need to batch-call the import method but that's it. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
