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I get frustrated when you make a task for a patient, there is no way to see tasks for a patient without knowing where you already put it. Or if you are reviewing a chart, you have no way of knowing if there is a task already made for a patient somewhere in the task list.

In an effort to help with this situation, I would like to add tasks attached to a particular patient to the ProgNotes. I am thinking they would be listed at the bottom of the notes since they need attention, and/or we could have dated tasks listed in order by date like the rest of the items.

Also, I think it would be good to show the recall note here as well. Then there would be no need to add it to the commlog every time you change it and the current status would be visible from the chart.

I see you already did it. That's fine. But I really wish you could resolve the problem with the reformatting of uninvolved code. Can't you just keep your commits very small until it's resolved?

You're not talking about putting the recall note in the progress notes are you? Maybe down in the grid at the lower left, but not in the progress notes.

That like a good idea...putting the recall note in the lower left grid.

I can't figure out why c# is changing that uninvolved code. Yesterday i reverted back to the prev version after I saw it changed a bunch of stuff...made sure all the spacing options were off or ignore and then tried to only change a small # of lines. Then when I went to submit again I found it had reformatted a bunch of stuff. I will try to figure it out today on what setting I need to change to make it quit doing that

no luck figuring out why c#express2008 is changing the uninvolved code...everything seems to be right on the settings...

On the spacing tab at the very bottom, do you have it set to ignore spaces around binary operators? It looked like your last big commit was removing spaces.

yes, that option is correct and it still removed the spaces, so I am not sure what the problem is. I made another post today thought and everything seemed to be fine.

I am trying to enable opening the task edit window by double clicking on the prog notes now. Is there a way to retrieve task data already like "Task.GetOne" somewhere? I am currently adding in that function to task.cs unless there is another way...

Go ahead and add it. I'll look at it when you're done to make sure conforms to the most current desired tactic (undocumented).

Great...let me know if that was ok

I see you added some more things on the future versions page for tasks. I like those features. One thing I would really get to work is the way the dated tasks work.

Not sure yet if this is possible with the way the structure is but what about these?

1) I want dated tasks to show up on the appropriate task list on and AFTER their due date. For reminder calls in the future etc...Currently, they only show on the day/week/month you click on and if you didn't get it done in time and move on to a later date it disappears into computer oblivion.
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2)Be able to view and change what tasklist the task is in from the taskedit window. I guess it would need to be a 'windows explorer' like hierarchical tree view of the task lists to make it work...not really sure how to do that....or maybe it would be easier to include a GoTo button to navigate to the actual task list and then use the cut/copy/paste functions there.

I was going to hold off on the overhaul of the dated functions for just a little while longer. It's going to be very challenging, and I need time to mull it over a little more. First, I want to turn the "repeating" tab into a completely separate setup window. Also, I want to completely eliminate the three dated tabs and merge them into the main tab. But like I said, it's going to take a lot of planning to get it just right.

ok...yeah, I thought the dated stuff would be pretty complicated...

when you say you want to add more statuses to tasks......
enumerations like

1)New 2)Viewed 3)WorkingOnIt, 4)FollowUpNeeded 5)Completed?

or custom, user statuses?

Probably a combination of a short hard-coded status selection along with a more flexible customizable status selection. What's critically missing right now is a "viewed" status. There is already a completed status, but filtering is not adequate. Please don't touch this part of the program right now. Derek is working on that. We have also had a lot of internal discussions about tasks. I can safely say that we use tasks more heavily than any dental office possibly could. As such, we are in a very good position to make meaningful changes and to stay very much on top of those changes as they are made.