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A few questions: Is plugin support being deprecated in any way? What enhancements to the FHIR implementation will be made to bridge the gap between the data currently exposed via FHIR vs direct database access? How would plug-ins that modified the OD user interface exist with only external FHIR acce...

Make sure you are looking under the 32-bit registry.

Open Dental doesn't really have a suggestion one way or the other that I'm aware of. Right now Open Dental just supplies the source code and says "good luck" to everyone else. Your suggestion is one way to approach it and would probably give the users of your plug-in a better experience unless you ...

Is it unreasonable to add those original method signatures back to OpenDentBusiness.PIn (possibly including them in a 17.3 patch), and then add a new method overload that adds the hasExceptions parameter? It is unreasonable to add overloads to all the methods that we broke with optional parameters....

What are the API compatibility guarantees for the OpenDentBusiness DLL? Or should we not have been using these functions from the beginning? We don't have an API and have zero backwards compatibility guarantees for all code available. Those functions are absolutely available for use and I encourage...

Our plug-in that was functioning in 17.2 is broken in 17.3, due to the OpenDentBusiness.PIn signatures changing. In 17.2, the signatures were in the form: long Long (string myString) In 17.3, they have changed to: long Long (string myString, bool hasExceptions = true) The following exception is thro...

This is something I am looking for as well, as we would like to detect if Open Dental is installed during our installer.

I found the registry key HKLM\Software\MakeMSI\PersistingProperties\OpenDental\INSTALLDIR. Is this the key to use?

I have added the hooks and columns to 17.2.2. However, we have decided that we will not add new Data Interface methods for two reasons: 1) Open Dental would incur future maintenance costs on these methods. 2) You would be better off in the long run implementing these methods yourself. If we were to...

Whoops, seems I missed one of the methods we also need:

• 8. Add static RefAttach GetOne(long refAttachNum) to OpenDentBusiness.RefAttaches

Thanks.

Hi, I have a several hook requests and schema changes regarding referrals that I hope can make it into 17.2 beta: 1. Add HookAddCode FormReferralsPatient.Load_end() 2. Add HookMethod FormReferralEdit.Load_start(RefCur, IsNew) 3. Add HookMethod FormRefAttachEdit.Load_start(RefAttachCur, IsNew) 4. Add...

Thank you!

Just checking in to see if there is an ETA on this. We are hoping to make use of this functionality in our plugin. Thanks.

Hi, Could a DateTStamp column be added to the labcase table, similar to other tables in the database? To complement that change, could the following method also be added to the LabCases class: public static List<LabCase> GetChangedSince(DateTime changedSince) { if(RemotingClient.RemotingRole==Remoti...

We would like to have some user-configurable additional properties for our plugin. Presumably, we need to create some initial OpenDentBusiness.ProgramProperty entries that will populate the additional properties table in the program link edit form. However, since this is a custom program link, the P...

cmcgehee wrote:I added these two methods to the head and to 17.1.8. I did modify them and renamed one so that they matched our patterns a little better.

Thanks for the quick reply, Chris.

Is it possible for this request to be added as well? It looks like it may have been forgotten.

We can add that method for you. Great! Could the following method also be added: public static List<long> GetChangedSinceAptNums(DateTime changedSince) { if (RemotingClient.RemotingRole == RemotingRole.ClientWeb) { return Meth.GetObject<List<long>>(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod(), changedSince); } st...

Hi, Could the following method be added to the OpenDentBusiness.AppointmentDeleteds class: public static List<AppointmentDeleted> GetChangedSince(DateTime changedSince) { if (RemotingClient.RemotingRole == RemotingRole.ClientWeb) { return Meth.GetObject<List<AppointmentDeleted>>(MethodBase.GetCurren...

needs to ask for a Plugins.HookMethod and to completely take over the entire "FormLabCaseEdit_Load" method to allow for lab cases with invalid patients to be shown. OK, that seems reasonable. Could you add a plugin hook method FormLabCaseEdit_Load at the beginning of FormLabCaseEdit_Load with the a...

The motivation for this change is our plugin is creating new LabCase records from our external data source, but in some cases there isn't an exact patient match for us to automatically populate in the patient ID. We ask the operator to resolve this in our UI that is generated in the FormLabCaseEdit....

Currently, having 0 set for labcase.PatNum will throw a null reference exception from FormLabCaseEdit.FormLabCaseEdit_Load. Could a check of Patients.GetPat(CaseCur.PatNum) be done so this does not happen? The lab cases form already handles this correctly by not showing a patient name in the data gr...

Thank you very much, Jason. Your answers were very helpful! The only other thing I can think of would be for you to include the OpenDentBusiness.dll within your installer application and make a connection to the Open Dental database and then invoke our methods to add the necessary things to the data...

Hi, I have a few questions regarding plugin development: 1. We would like to streamline the installation of our plugin for users. Would it bad practice to automatically insert an entry into the program table during installation of our application? 2. We have a Windows service that performs various s...

That's it for the moment, Chris, thanks.

Hi,

Could you please add a HookMethod to FormOpenDental.menuItemLaboratories_Click (after the security check).

Thanks.