Tricks of the Trade: MEDITECH NPR (Client Server) - Capturing a List of Information from the Run Time User

By: John Sharpe, President, Comstock Software, Inc.

Report writers usually use the IG (IGNORE) Select Operator when a single piece of information needs to be captured at run time from the user. The IG operator allows for information capture, without affecting MEDITECH’s record selection logic.

If only there was a Select Operator that could capture a list of information from the user, without affecting the standard record selection process. There isn’t - but with a little creativity and insight from MEDITECH Knowledge Base Article 4630 (you will need to use your meditech.com user id & password to view this article), you can accomplish the same thing using an LI operator and an entry in the Select Relationship box.

A Select Relationship of C2!’C2 tells the MEDITECH record selection logic to IGNORE Select Field number 2. Now you can use a DO Loop on Select Field 2 to utilize the captured information. A couple of ways you might use this information include: 1) to display it on the screen, OR 2) customize your own record selection process.

Thoughts or Questions? Email them to John at jsharpe@comstock-software.com.

 

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John Sharpe is President / NPR Consultant at Comstock Software, Inc. Learn more about NPR Report Writing at the MEDITECH NPR Report Writing Blog.