>Subject: Default Selections
>From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:24:44 -0400
>
> Hey all, I'm working on a Palm OS version of Clinical Web Log, which
>medical students use across the nation to keep records of their patient
>experience. The online version can be found at
>http://cweblog.usuhs.mil The Palm OS program has largely been finished
>and allows medical students to enter the notes on their Palm device and
>have it synched with the server each time they Hot Sync. Not that Avant
>Go is used at some point in this process. The only problem we have now
>is that medical students are complaining that for each patient they have
>to re-enter grade level, name, rotation, etc, stuff which doesn't change
>frequently at all, if ever. Seeing as how they well may be doing
>hundreds of these a week, it's a concern. So my question is: how do I
>set up this database program so that, for each new submission, the
>fields default to what was entered the previous time, i.e. a sort of
>"Cookie" on Palm OS devices? Thanks so much for all of the help, you'll
>be saving hundreds and hundreds of manhours of worthwhile medical
>....
It might be a tools issue.
The software on the Palm OS should be capable of storing this
kind of info in a seperate file and merging it when the data is
uploaded. That should be prety straightforward stuff.
Then the user only needs to change that occasionally if the
student data changes.
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc.
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