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Maybe I'm missing something... But we use PATP.. And have all the printers we wanted associated with specific outpatient locations, or any location for that matter, set up as the default printer in the MIS location dictionary. Every device is linked to a location, even our laptops. SO whether we need a terminal's location linked to a default printer for OE dept reqs, Or a PATP location linked to a default printer, They are all set up. Carol Lapointe Systems Analyst Restigouche Health Authority (506) 789-5902 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mona Ridge Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:08 AM To: 'Alan Miller'; 'Mitchell Lawrence'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [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 ====================================== If you don't have too many printers to designate, you might consider this: On the CDS have the last query say: Print To: Lookup of printer names Make a copy of the NPR or each printer On the selects: xx.printer Q "MAL1" MAL1 is the name of the printer In Edit Field attributes enter: xx.printer DAT=FREE JFY=L LEN=1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]"NURNAMEPRINTERQUERY"] The CDS will only print if the name of the printer query is MAL1 You can repeat this for several printers without a problem Attach each NPR to the nursing intervention. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Miller Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 7:24 AM To: Mitchell Lawrence; [email protected] Subject: RE: [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 ====================================== Mitch, Thanks for your input. I agree that user education is important and that a minimum expectation should be for users to know what their printer name is. But with NUR.PC.WORK.zcus.prt... reports the "Print On" prompt doesn't show. Everything is determined beforehand within the intervention dictionary, so the printer name must be hardcoded for "a valid printer". Not a viable option for this function, unless you want all output to always go to the same place. Not good for us. Alan >>> "Lawrence, Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/25/2006 08:51 >>> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
