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Sounds as if you are trying to programmatically solve a user education problem. Often, that is a futile endeavor. They could use the valid printer option and just know where to print before hand. Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Senior Applications Analyst - Advanced Report Writer General Financials Support CHRISTUS Information Management Tel: 361.881.3408 Fax: 361.888.6117 Mob: 361.549.8456 AIM: a1d13 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone has "Made your day", send them a Spirit Buck! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Miller Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:49 PM To: Meditech-L Subject: [MEDITECH-L] NUR.PC.WORK.zcus.prt... printing problems All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We're Magic 5.5 and need some help with NUR.PC.WORK reports, more specifically where the output goes. On page 2 of the intervention dictionary, one can select from a set of 4 choices: * a valid printer * HERE (for the user's location) * PAT (for the patient's location) * PATP (for the patient's permanent location) We can't find one that makes everyone happy - * a valid printer: these interventions get performed all over the place, so we don't want to go chasing after a piece of paper in a distant location. * HERE (for the user's location): this won't work for our COWS, as they don't know where "HERE" is. Our COWS are set up generically, so they can be used in any location. They get turned over (sometimes literally) often, switched from floor to floor, borrowed by other departments, etc., so they don't have a default printer set. * PAT (for the patient's location): many of our outpatients don't even have real locations, so nothing prints at all with this option. * PATP (for the patient's permanent location): see "a valid printer" above. We tried to insert code into a start macro for the report that would "hijack" the output to another printer based on the user's location. It works OK with a regular report run manually, but not with intervention reports (NUR.PC.WORK.zcus.prt...). Evidently the intervention process closes down the hijack attempt before it can process and reverts back to the output specified in the dictionary. For now, we have set up dual output to "PAT" and also "a valid printer". The COW pokes get their output via PAT, and the DaySurgery folks get theirs (and everyone else's) on their local printer. There must be a better way.... We'd appreciate any L-workarounds or L-insights. TIA, Alan Miller, RPH Catawba Valley Medical Center Hickory, NC 28602 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
