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jourdo
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Quick Mail Merge Question

Post by jourdo » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:54 am

I'm not sure if I am blind and just missing it, but I am trying to find a data element to add to my account letters. I am just transferring over the letters I had used in Dentrix and updating them to Open Dental. The one Dentrix data element that I cannot find in Open Dental is the date of the last visit. Is it there? Am I just missing it?

Thanks!

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Re: Quick Mail Merge Question

Post by jordansparks » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:02 am

Patient letters that are sheets tend to have more fields available than merge letters. In sheets, it's inside the static text field. It's called DateTimeLastAppt. For letter merge, see request #2164.
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Re: Quick Mail Merge Question

Post by jourdo » Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:45 am

Thanks for the reply. I keep forgetting about the Sheets feature. Definitely easier. Two more questions:

1. Is there a field that will just show the date of the last appointment, and not the time as well (I know we are all type A personalities... but I don't want to broadcast it).
2. Is there a way to change the way the date is formatted? Instead of the 16/11/2011, can I make it show as 16 November 2011?

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Re: Quick Mail Merge Question

Post by jordansparks » Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:50 pm

Yeah, I was noticing there was no field for just date. I have added that to request #2165.
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