Marc,
Oh....if it were only that easy. That's how you and I might do it...... These are nurses and they don't want to type in the first place! Trying to get them to keep to a standard format is not for the faint of heart. They are (and should be) much more concerned with the medical information, not the look and feel.
My job in this project is to come up with what the doctors want to see and make it mindless for the data entry nurses.
If I can ever figure this out to where it works seamlessly and elegantly, then I can port the technology to physician office dictation systems and actually sell some copies of R:Base.
Excuse me while I take my next dose of valium......
Thanks for the suggestion...
Bob C
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Bob
Would this work.
In your lookup table make the field varchar, then
they could format the headings the way they want?
Couldn't they make
^^^Past History^^^ some big font
then the text below would be the default font.
Just thinking. I know I shouldn't do that
Marc
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Yikes! ..."Blob".... That is another variable I need to consider.
I was going to use Marc's suggestion and use one RTF file but the users want a really tight formatted report with shaded headings and other visual goodies so i am sort of at a loss at this time.
Just FYI to all, i did talk with RBTI about this and at least I am convinced that for this type of application v8 turbo is probably going to be necessary for all this data.
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One difference I noticed between having a varchar and a note
column in a table is that if you will be exporting the data (say
to an Excel file), you will just get the word [BLOB] for a varchar
field, whereas you would get the full note. I searched to see
whether there's a setting or option to download varchars any
other way but I couldn't find it. So if you need to export a field,
then you need to stick with a note field.
Karen
I am going to switch to a varchar in 7.1 so I can have
more than 4k for the notes.
