On FOCUS

by Joe Cocuzzo Creating a download report is streamlined in the Report Designer, although it was not that difficult in the NPR Report Writer. If you designate a report format as Export rather than Standard on the General page, the Regions and Layout Pages become unavailable and the Fields page has a setting for download: [...]

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by Frank Fortner Recent concerns on the L-list had to do with the inability to write custom code, attributes and computed fields within various screens and reports in 6.x.  Now, in MEDITECH’s defense, I feel the need to clarify.  In 6.0, more than half of the applications are still running on the NPR side and [...]

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by Joe Cocuzzo The Regions Page allows you to activate different regions, and to create count and statistical fields for your trailer regions. Rather than creating a computed field with a VAL and an FNC, you can create a counting field per record (so count at the detail level or at a child segment level [...]

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by Mike DeVoe I’m surprised at how many times I’ve been asked how scripting FOCUS applications is possible since it is so mouse-driven.  I get this question from seasoned script programmers as well as non-programmers.  I’m sure they’ve conjured up visions of counting pixels to deliver a mouse-click to a particular dot on the screen [...]

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by Ed Bishop The ForUpdate mutex defines a mutex record only when the data is updated, thus limiting the amount of time that the record is locked. Examples of ForUpdate mutexes are OM Clinical Data entry, OM Order entry, and PCS Assessment edits. The key difference with a ForUpdate mutex is that the cached data [...]

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