Steve
We are going to use the A B C for 2 things. A 1-10 pain scale where the
patient rated the level of
pain to show progress and maybe a simple Same Better Worse. Each of these
just needs 1 column
and a simple check box would work great.
They could see that using EMS or Hot packs is working or not and make any
necessary changes.
So you world have
Neck pain 5 EMS 15 min ... Same Better Worse Misc notes
Knee pain 8 Hot packs 15 min ... Same Better Worse Mist notes
Having the other visits in a region will help decide if any changes are
needed, instead of flipping back and
forth from the last visit to this visit. Clicking a button is much faster
compared to typing S B W or 1-10
Remember there is 5 lines or rows for the symptoms, clicking or tabbing to
get to the correct files is slower
than just clicking B
I hope this is a little easier to follow. In my RBrain this seems easy but
when the signal gets to my fingers
something gets lost!
Thanks for the input
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Steve" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:34 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Scrolling Region and DB Check box
Totally understand about seeing the previous visits - what is it about
failing to study your history - and I'm already thinking about ways to
accomplish that in a variable form. However, I'd be the first to admit that
my thinking is probably less "expert" than that of many others in this list.
In short though, is that you are trying to make it easy for your users to
collect/input this data while simultaneously having some sort of read/view
access to existing and related data?
Would you mind elaborating just a bit on the meaning of "systems" and the
meaning/function of the ABC?
I have a limited understanding of your subject matter - a former XC/Track
teammate from college is a P/T, in fact, my P/T when I'm in need - but I
still feel that my understanding of your information items is a bit vague.
Again, not suggesting you run down "the beaten path", but I am curious to
have a bit better understanding of these fields/information items before I
might suggest a particular "direction"; a bit like Alice, when the Cheshire
Cat says that it doesn't matter which way you go if you don't know where you
want to go. IOW, I'm the Alice.
You know, that's not so easy for a "dude" to say.
Steve
PS - For any and all who are paying attention, when the Memphis Tigers are
"on" this year, I conclude that they beat last year's squad by high
single-digits. The problem is that we have yet to see more than about 32:00
of "on". Of course, we all saw last March that even 38:00 of "on" may not
be enough to bring home a title.
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From: [email protected] on behalf of MDRD
Sent: Wed 3/4/2009 5:41 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Scrolling Region and DB Check box
Steve
I would have to look into this, I have not used this approach before
What I am doing is a Physical therapy note system
You can have 5 systems, other fields then the A B C for one column for a
status
Something like this
Neck pain bla bla EMS,,,, A B C
Knee pain bla bla Hot packs ... A B C
being able to see the last visits treatments would be a big help and that's
why
I was looking at a region.
Thanks for the input
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: Wills, Steve <mailto:[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:14 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Scrolling Region and DB Check box
Not to be such a contrarian that you think I'm a heretic, but, is it that
you MUST use a scrolling region?
Would it be possible for you to perhaps use a Variable Form? It would
require more coding, certainly, but it could open up a host of options for
you to use on behalf of your users. I wouldn't have suggested this
possibility, but ...
· Your desire to make it work AND make it work easy and "pretty"
· Your mention (in a later message) that you have competition
· Variable Forms was my solution when I ran up against a similar
challenge some years back in the area of survey-based research
Conceptually, and to the user, it could still work more or less like a
scrolling region, but only one set of data would be presented at a time,
rather than the many rows of the scrolling region. You could located
buttons or other controls to navigate, ring bells, blow whistles, and
whatever it takes to - what is it Razzak likes to say - blow the socks off
your users' feet.
I even did a little something along these lines over the weekend, just to
test the logic of some ColdFusion functionality in a different application.
My form had a bunch of checkboxes, an "All That Apply" type of thing. Due
to design constraints on this app's database, we decided to concatenate the
label values, 'CAPTION', from each button that was checked, then append it
to a string variable with a comma between each CAPTION. IOW, a LIST! That
way, we could make it easy, have a finite solution domain with discrete
values (the CAPTIONs), and still reliably store it and search it.
Well, I digress a bit.
Anyway, it might be something to think about.
Steve in Memphis
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MDRD
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:15am 11:15
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Scrolling Region and DB Check box
HI
I am stuck on something that should be very simple.
I have a Scrolling Region and would love to use a Radio Group
but that is not possible.
I have a text field with 1 character that I want to store A B or C
Instead of having a DB Edit and typing in A B C, I would like
to have the same type of look and feel of the Radio Group.
I have played with Buttons and DB Check boxes but can't seem
to get it figured out. Also I would like the object to be highlighted
in when using the form so you can tell what the value of the field is.
An I way off target or is this possible?
Thanks
Marc
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