Hi Tina, I think you need to take a look at the level of your RW team. If they have taken the advanced course at MT but are still working at a "beginner" level then the course is valuable. Then the course would be valuable. If they're working at an advanced level, they probably don't need it. I think this is a more important factor than the differences between MAGIC and C/S. I've use both Magic (since 4.2) and Client server since (5.0) and taught NPR courses in both. I think that the things that are different about the two report writers are not covered in the courses (either the Magic or the C/S) The trip to Boston may be interesting if it's not winter but not essential (in my opinion). MT considers the two platforms virtually identical and from the level that the courses take you, it likely is (except for the function keys). Here's my summary of the differences between NPR RW in MAGIC and C/S 1. The function keys are different in C/S rw compared with MAGIC rw (neither courses cover function keys) If you ask, they're just as likely to tell you to use the template. This is probably the most frustrating difference for a person switching but the course will do little to help you learn the new function keys. Only F9, F10, F11, F12 are the same (I think) 2. Magic has a 1K symbol table (local variables) space. C/S as 64K - Symbol table overflow never happens in C/S 3. Magic uses slash variables that reside in RAM on the server. C/S uses RAM from the client 4. Buffereing is not explained by either courses but it is used much more extensively in C/S than in Magic 5. Fragments are taught in both however are somewhat redundant in C/S as there's no limit to the number of prefixes you can have open. 6. Print on SCHED is not taught in MAGIC and in C/S it is not available. 7. MV arrays are taught in both MAGIC and C/S but in C/S there's a trick you can use to never lose the field number of a field if a report has fields added or removed (the trick is not available in MAGIC) The trick is not taught in C/S 8. In C/S there is the posibility of writing program macros within program macros with the # syntax. It's a clever trick but not covered at the course. 9. There's no capability of writing your own $T app in C/S. Iatrics has done a paralell system as they have one of the former C/S system programmers from C/S but this is likely out of the range of pretty much every mortal report writer on the planet. John Toop Developer Humber River Regional Hospital Toronto, Ontario Canada
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Harding, Tina Sent: Wed 18/04/2007 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Migration from Magic to C/S - NPR RW Question Good Afternoon Everyone, My facility is migrating from Magic to Client Server in December and I was wondering if anyone that has done this migration can tell me if you had to re-train at Meditech for the RW module or if they were similar enough that you were able to write them in the C/S version. Thanks for any responses! Thank you, Tina Harding Financial Systems Analyst/Financial Coordinator Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, Mo 65065 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' 573-348-8177* *** eSafe detected hostile content in this email and removed it. *** \HTML Active Content: Object Removed: 1 'img'
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