Greetings, Sorry for the additional traffic - but figured others may be interested in this as I'm hearing a lot of folks will be moving to this platform over the coming year(s).
What I should have said was: The good news is, if the fields were in the same place on the screen - then much of the script wouldn't need to be changed. That means if they are different consistently, then a script could be converted with an (as yet uncreated) utility. Perhaps not obviously, there is also a new Connection option for 5.6 / 6.0. The C/S connection for 5.5 and earlier will not work for 5.6. So the new scripts will use this different connection. But that's just switching out the Connect command - no biggie there. The Menus are very different from 5.5 to 5.6 - no icons anymore, no Lookup screens either. These required our development team to create a special command to select menus by their name. So these would need to be learned - nice thing about 5.6 is the menu's are all on one screen, and you can simply highlight the menu item you want in the Application Viewer like you can with Magic - so it's actually easier. There are some icons that require the use of a clicking icon command we created as those have no keyboard shortcuts at all. Most do however, but the shortcuts are different than what you may have been used to. I'll be hosting a webinar next month on scripting C.S 5.6 / 6.0 and will go over the above and more. And if someone <hint hint> can facilitate a comparison between versions for given screens - I'll gear the webinar towards how to convert scripts as well. Regards, Thom Thom C. Blackwell Product Manager Boston Software Systems (866) 653-5105 ex 807 www.bossoft.com <http://www.bossoft.com/> HIMSS Booth 3445 Sign up for my weekly webinar! <http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx> LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:25 To: Talk Subject: [talkbws] RE: Meditech 5.6- Client Server Greetings, The biggest challenge is that the screens are radically different. I have not done an individual comparison between screen X in 5.5 vs screen X 5.6 If someone has a setup like that however - I'd gladly look at it to see if a conversion utility is plausible or not! Regards, Thom Thom C. Blackwell Product Manager Boston Software Systems (866) 653-5105 ex 807 www.bossoft.com <http://www.bossoft.com/> HIMSS Booth 3445 Sign up for my weekly webinar! <http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx> LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:10 To: Talk Subject: [talkbws] RE: Meditech 5.6- Client Server We are also in TEST. June 1st is our scheduled LIVE date. I haven't started re-writing our existing scripts (yet!). Since 5.6 is totally different, does anyone know if this warrants a total re-write of everything? I wish there was an upgrade tool that would help facilitate the move, within Boston Workstation. Anyone know of anything that would help? Ron Barrett Programmer Coffeyville Regional Medical Center 1400 West 4th Coffeyville, KS 67337 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [talkbws] RE: Meditech 5.6- Client Server We have C/S 5.64 in TEST. June 24th is our scheduled LIVE date. Thanks, Garry Ragland Applications Manager Commonwealth Health Corporation 800 Park Street Bowling Green, KY 42101 270-796-2508 [email protected] ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [talkbws] Meditech 5.6- Client Server Let me clarify...who is running Meditech 5.6 Client Server? Would you mind giving me your hospital name and city. Thank,s Kevin ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [talkbws] RE: Meditech 5.6 We're running 5.62 Magic. Thanks, Jared Parish Integration Analyst Blanchard Valley Health System CareTech Solutions, Inc. Ph: 419.429.6476 Fax: 419.423.5540 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [talkbws] Meditech 5.6 I wanted to get a sense of how many sites are running BWS in a Meditech 5.6 environment..... Thanks, Kevin J. 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