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apollonia

to me there is a BIG difference between OD ALLOWING a user password vs when DTX made it IMPOSSIBLE to set one. i'm kind of a libertarian, and i suspect i favor big naggy popups that request a user password, rather than requiring one. if one IS required, then OD should set a default, otherwise there ...

apollonia

brilliant answer, obi wan !!

apollonia

how does OD designate the 'default' image to use for each patient, assuming there are multiple images for each patient in the folder?

apollonia

isn't that pretty much the same setup we had at A-ville ?? worked great, and you could afford to keep spare workstations for swapping out when needed. ours were fully programmed with Win7, CDR, IOC, OD, etc. small enough to velcro on the back of a monitor, and treat the whole thing like a poor man's...

apollonia

jordan,

i remember figuring this out a couple of years ago, and it made perfect sense, but for the life of me i can't remember.

what is the format for provider colors stored in the db?

apollonia

from what little i think i know, there is a "mutually exclusive" setting (somewhere) that designates each patient as either "prophy" or "perio" for their recall designation. now, after a year of using OD, we are looking to start actually USING the recall system, and have noticed that recalls can be ...

apollonia

not sure this (55) is the right issue. it appears that 55 requests a "date of original appointment" and not the "date the original appointment was created ON" this can easily be confusing in human language, because an appointment has a date it is FOR and a date it was created ON. what i believe is n...

apollonia

there are always new ways to be stupid, and i have discovered many of them......

(ahem).. the solution was to change the paint type for pontic codes from "crown" to "bridge".

(problem in chair, not in computer)

apollonia

i don't know if it's stockholm syndrome at work, but i find mySQL to by around 10,000 times easier than microsoft's SQL Server. working with SQL Server seems to be like herding squirrels, where mySQL is a walk in a park. it might be some sort of left-brain/right-brain thing (no brain?), but ple-e-e-...

apollonia

this is a minor nuisance, and i haven't spent any time looking for the "why", but when a bridge is planned (or completed, existing, etc.) and the pontic tooth is missing, then the pontic graphic is missing from the chart display (seemingly in all graphic modes). if i mark the tooth as "not missing" ...

apollonia

my bet is if you schedule a replicator to copy your database file to dropbox every night at 2:00 AM, it would work well. i'll give it a try and report back.

apollonia

does this allow a single guarantor to initiate more than one payment plan attached to (for example multiple children on orthodontic treatment pay plans)? we have (for reasons unexplained here) more than one family with several children on payment plans under a single guarantor. what we often hear is...

apollonia

dittos. we scan charts as they come in (actually a couple of days before if we can) we then put the (scanned) records in a box, labelled by date. if somebody ever needs or wants original paper records, we know when they were scanned (datestamp on the images) and can look in the box. not too difficul...

apollonia

here's my own personal paranoia..... i see TREMENDOUS liability issues with losing my patient data (not to mention the economic harm). does that make me a control freak? i'm not so sure. just sounds prudent to me to keep my vital data in house (at least my malpractice insurance will protect me from ...

apollonia

PPO contracts are double edged swords. if lower, the dentist is stuck. if higher, well...... use the higher fee (and if that is REALLY the case, perhaps raise your UCR!)

apollonia

think of "cloud software" and "local data" instead of "cloud everything" how about if all the new features of OpenDental (not tweaks or bug fixes but really new or vastly improved features) were web-based, working from webservice access to OD. that way, there need not be a total dependence on the we...

apollonia

it is rare that our modern internet connections "go out" but it is common that they become painfully slow. until we all have fiber optic (or equivalent) speed, we're always going to have local infrastructure to handle X-rays, photos, and other high res imaging. there are additional advantages in hav...

apollonia

Jordan,

Your tireless efforts writing OpenDental are producing new features faster than we users can even read about them. It's truly awe-inspiring to watch the wheels turn.

You are not only changing software, my friend. You are truly changing lives.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Neil

apollonia

dittos on the trial conversion. we played with the trial conversion and then scheduled out "C-day" (conversion) for the (early) end of a friday so i could play all weekend before opening on monday. as luck would have it, i was out sick on monday, and the staff figured it out without many questions. ...

apollonia

jordan, thank you. i'd missed that, and believe it to be the answer to my problem (and my prayers).

i'll put together a package of forms, send them to you, and then we can talk.

appreciate this very much.

apollonia

My practice is busy, and my coding skills are poor. We have a great many forms that patients use (some simple like Informed Consent and others more complicated like Patient Registration, Medical History, etc.) OpenDental has new and expanding capabilities in this arena that are outside my limited sk...

apollonia

OK, i've poked around and i think i have it working pretty well. this took a lot of work on your part, it's a pretty well regulated process. can you help with a "best practice" scenario..... i can see a couple of ways to go, but wonder which has worked out the best..... patient fills out form, and y...

apollonia

jordan, thank you again.

i'll give a whirl this afternoon!

http://www.opendental.com/manual/patien ... minal.html

UPDATE: i love it.

apollonia

i know that complete documentation will arrive soon, but i'm eager to de-confuse myself. can somebody give me a quick version of how to use a form (assume forms are already made -- i don't want to complicate this). using a tablet or kiosk computer to have patients fill out medical hisotory and patie...

apollonia

just a follow up. we persisted in getting these errors with a limited number of patients, until we updated to version 7, and now all errors have vanished.

we never fixed the bad data, but somehow you did!

you guys (the OD development team) are the greatest.

apollonia

that makes sense, jordan. i'm going to try to change the my.cnf to SET GLOBAL sql_mode=' ' and then see if anything breaks on my other applications (i'll do that on a development server first). Then I'll reset the mode to it's current value, and try OD with a SET SESSIONS sql_mode=' ' and see if OD ...

apollonia

in MiscData.SetSqlMode is it important to SET GLOBAL sql_mode=' ' ?? would SET SESSION sql_mode=' ' accomplish the same thing? i have a number of other applications running on the same MySQL server, and i haven't assigned SUPER privileges to the OD user account, so it throws a privileges error. but ...

apollonia

when i attempted a recent update, an error was thrown (SetSqlMode choked on SET GLOBAL sql_mode=' ' ). I restored my original OpenDental program files and all worked fine, but still all the workstations were locked. Is there a way to re-open access and unlock workstations, other than doing something...

apollonia

having played around just a little bit with C# and MS SQL and also playing around with C# programming in visual studio 'connected' to mySQL, i can confidently agree with Jordan's strategic thinking. As the world moves forward, there will be more tight integration of programmer friendly new features ...

apollonia

if you set up a procedure's treatment area as "arch", and the paint type as "crown", then the error shows up when the chart is opened (for patients with that procedure) obviously, this is user issue, and not a flaw in OD, but still it used to not throw the error -- perhaps NOT throwing an error was ...

apollonia

i'm poking around a bit and agree that the security issues prevent anything public as yet.

maybe with some sort of user-generated authentication key as a global login security, and perhaps using HTTPS to encrypt the requests, this could become a reality without much refactoring of existing code.

apollonia

continuing from another thread: Also, I am getting a fair number of Unhandled exception errors: Tooth ID not valid "Continue" hangs the program (just the chart part) this post should be reviewed by OD team before being sure of it's user scope this problem plagued us for a couple of days, preventing ...

apollonia

switching to "OpenGL" graphics options fixes this.

some (presumably older) of my machines don't want to get fixed by the directX download, either.

the "Invalid Tooth ID" needs another thread

apollonia

merry christmas to everyone here.

apollonia

having OD tables available via the new web service will blow wide open third party web application development to augment OD. just a few thoughts: - interactive web-based lab communication, upload and view photos, send messages back and forth, coordinate pickup and delivery, email case notifications...

apollonia

thank you.

apollonia

jordan, i see this warning on the page showing me how to SVN the latest versions: Warning!! Code downloaded using methods listed on this page is NOT suitable for use in a live setting. A database using such code will be unable to upgrade later to a newer version. Specifically, any database version w...

apollonia

jordansparks wrote:What does that mean? Does it mean you are enthusiastic about the possibility of a web version?

well, yes, i am very enthusastic about a web version, but admittedly i was expressing suprise at the "amateur programmer" tag.

apollonia

I just read their manual. Their first version with web capability was only released 18 days ago, although the language has been around for decades. Yes, it does look fast to write code. It looks most useful to amature programmers rather than professional developers. In any case, all licensing issue...

apollonia

VixWin's somewhat confused explanation is actually (somewhat) true, but not in the way they said. VixWin has two modes (options --> preferences --> 'bridge mode' | 'stand alone mode') and some lamebrain decided they should store and retrieve data from two separate directories, VXDATA and VXIMAGES, r...

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