You've defined "A" and "B", at the IF: prompt simply enter A&B or A!B, etc.
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Toppenberg
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] How to make custom reports with Fileman?
Jim (and everyone else, too), replies below:
--- Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin wrote:
Hey All,
It seems to me that Fileman is missing a report
generator. Perhaps I am just overlooking it.
You overlooked it.
The Search and Print options from the
roll-and-scroll interface give you quite powerful
reporting capabilities.
Talk about "if it had been a snake it would have bit
me" Ha.
I had completely overlooked the "Search" Function.
This looks similar to what I want. But I still can't
figure out how it works. I'm clueless as to what it
wants at the "IF:" prompt. (Why can't Fileman be less
terse?) Here's a screen log of my attempts
OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: PATIENT//
-A- SEARCH FOR PATIENT FIELD: .01 NAME
-A- CONDITION: ?
Answer with CONDITION NUMBER, or NAME
Choose from:
1 NULL
2 CONTAINS
3 MATCHES
4 LESS THAN
5 EQUALS
6 GREATER THAN
YOU CAN NEGATE ANY OF THESE CONDITIONS BY PRECEDING
THEM WITH "'" OR "-"
SO THAT "'NULL'" MEANS "NOT NULL"
-A- CONDITION: 2 CONTAINS
-A- CONTAINS: wigle
-B- SEARCH FOR PATIENT FIELD: sex
-B- CONDITION: cONTAINS
-B- CONTAINS: male
ENTER A VALUE WHICH 'SEX'
MUST CONTAIN, IN ORDER FOR TRUTH CONDITION -B-
TO BE TRUE
Use EXTERNAL VALUE (from list on the right)
Enter 'M' for MALE, or 'F' for FEMALE.
Choose from:
M MALE
F FEMALE
-B- SEARCH FOR PATIENT FIELD: m
1 MARITAL STATUS
2 MEDICAID ELIGIBILE? ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID?
3 MEDICAID NUMBER
4 METHOD OF DETERMINATION
5 MILT RET DUE TO DISABILITY? DISABILITY RET.
FROM MILITARY?
Press <RETURN> to see more, '^' to exit this list, OR
CHOOSE 1-5: ^??
-B- SEARCH FOR PATIENT FIELD: sex
-B- CONDITION: cONTAINS
-B- CONTAINS: M
[ Will match 'MALE', and 'FEMALE' ]
-C- SEARCH FOR PATIENT FIELD:
IF: ? <?>??
IF: <TYPE '^' TO EXIT>??
IF: <TYPE '^' TO EXIT>??
IF: <TYPE '^' TO EXIT>??
IF: ?? <?>??
IF: 1 <1>??
IF: ^
Press RETURN to continue...
If you augment Fileman with M2Web, then you will
have additional capabilities for doing
database queries from a web browser and a great many
additional options for formatting the
results on-the-fly, including switching the output
type from html to xml or xls.
Again, I really want to sit down with your M2Web
technology someday and implement it. I just can't get
diverted right now. Too much on my plate. It looks
extremely powerful. I hope that it gets put formally
into Fileman, as was the object of a recent Friday
conference call.
A database should be able to easily allow the user
to
say:
--Give me all reports
--Of the following date
--With field .12345=Value
When I have written before about during searches on
multiple fields, I have been told to use FIND^DIC
and
create custom screening code that checks for the
secondary and tertiary factors.
Why was that? Was is because you were trying to do
the searches from a non roll-and-scroll
interface or because of some perceived inadequacy of
the Search module?
Yes, I had been doing it programatically. And, as
above, I had overlooked the Search function
But does use of fileman require programming skills?
Not really, but advanced users would benefit from
knowing something about MUMPS functions
and operators for specifying calculations on data
values - and Fileman conventions for
referring to data field values and for extending
data field references from one file to
another.
Furthermore, its a hassle to try to get one's
entire
screening logic compressed into one line of
screening
code.
If this tool is not currently available, it seems
it
should be fairly easy to create.
If that would be easy for you, then you are a far
better programmer than anyone I know and
you are wasting your talents and valuable time
working as a mere doctor. ;-) Perhaps you
could help out with developing a general web
interface to Fileman and VistA databases -
that could be world changing. :-D
"Easy" is always a trap word. What I had in mind was
something similar to what is in the search function.
I had in mind taking each of the logical steps,
getting a list of matches and logically combining
them. I.e. allow a search like this:
.01:((Doe,J) OR (Doe,A)) AND .03:((1960) OR (1972))
Separate searches would be done for Doe,J in field
.01. and Doe,A in field .01. Combine these two lists
via OR logic. Then perform separate searches for 1960
in field .03 and 1972 in .03. Combine these two lists
via OR logic. Then combine the two resulting lists
via AND logic. "Easy" :-\
But as you can see in my other posts, I can't even
consistantly get FIND^DIC to find one single patient
(which I know is in the database), when searching on
just the .01 field.
So maybe I thought it should be "easy" for you experts
out there... LOL!
Thanks a lot
Kevin
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