Customisation: Hardware

Hardware settings

Here you can set the options for printer terminal codes and the default settings used on each terminal. You will not normally need to change any of the settings on this menu:

Codes (Printer)

This option is used to set up which printers are available, the codes used for the printers to change print style, fonts etc.

You can have up-to 26 different printers on the system, referenced by a letter A to Z. Select the printer you wish to configure and the current settings will be displayed:

Reference           A
Location            Main Laser Printer
Command             lpr -s -c -dlaser
Need FF             No
IBM Graphics        Yes
Currency symbol     156
Paper Length        66
Paper Width/Offset  0

Reference

The letter to which Premvet refers to this printer as.

Location

A description of where the printer is located.

Command

What command should be used to print to this printer. With Unix it will take to form of lpr -s -c -dlaser and with DOS/Windows it will be cat %% > LPT1:. Adjust this to suit.

Need FF

Does this printer need an extra Form Feed to eject the paper.

IBM Graphics

Will the printer 'understand' the IBM character set to allow the heading to be printed - if not hyphens instead.

Currency symbol

What symbol is the pound sign.

Paper Length

How many lines of text can be printed on a single sheet of paper.

Paper Width

How wide is the paper, for label printers this is the 'offset', that is allows you to adjust the left margin.

The prompt line will be:

Edit

Change any of the details

Test

Generate a test page to ensure the codes are correct

Codes

Print out all the codes for font etc.

Page

Counts the number of lines on a page

Symbols

Print the symbol set for this printer

Codes

Permits entering of codes

Utilities

Sets some printer specific options,
currenltly applies to the TSP700 label printer only.

1. Switches TSP700 to label mode
2. Switches back to Receipt mode
3. Makes the print darker.
4. Download a logo
   New
   Prompts for the printer model to automatically use pre-set codes

Entering Printer codes

Every printer needs codes sent to it to tell the printer to take a new page, print in smaller/larger writing etc. The vet system will already have been set up to send the basic codes.

You can add/change these codes to improve the look of the documents that you can send to clients e.g. shadowing, outline, LQ etc.

Note: These settings all depend on the printer that is being used and the functions that are available. Because of the wide variety of possibilities no further guidance is given here and you should refer to the relevant printer manual for details of the options available to you.

Select the printer, then the 'Codes' option:

     Condensed off            \018
     Condensed on             \015
     Normal                   \018\020        
     Enlarged on              \014
     Enlarged off             \020 
     Form feed                \012
     Font 1 on                \027\120\049
     Font 1 off               \027\120\048
     Spare                    \007
     Reset                    \027\064
     Bold on                 
     Bold off                
     Underline on            
     Underline off           
     Initialise                    

When setting printer codes , you have to enter the actual character, e.g. for a capital 'A', you would enter 'A' (without the inverted commas). Editing is done with the highlight bar.

For characters that cannot be displayed and are unprintable (e.g. Control-T, Escape, etc.) you can:

Enter a slash (\) followed by one of the following methods:

1. The ASCII equivalent as three decimal characters.
2. An 'E', which is used to mean the escape character (ASCII 027 decimal).
3. A two character hex code followed by an h.
4. The control character required (but not E, as this means Escape, not Control-E).

So for the sequence of printer control characters to turn bold printing on for an Oki printer, you could enter '\027(s3B'.

New lines and spaces
If a % sign is included in the code this will be taken as a new line. e.g. .PA% will be the code .PA followed by a new line.
An underscore ( _ ) will be treated as a space.

These codes will be given in the manual supplied with the printer and you should enter the codes in pairs e.g. the code to turn on bold printing and the code to turn off bold printing.

Note: If you are using local printers be careful that the codes do not clash with those that control terminal switching.

Printer code 15 is sent to the printer whenever headings are printed you can now use this to initialise the printer e.g. IBM graphic set, LQ, different fonts etc. without have to play around with dip switches and buttons. You can also use this to set the paper size if you are using 24 line paper.

Terminal database

This contains the terminal settings for each type of terminal that can be used on the system.

When setting up terminals the system should automatically detect the correct type if the OS is setup to use them. If you need to make any changes most of the screens are obvious. The only point to make is the 'Function Key' option on the main screen. This should be set as follows:

Keep in mind not all terminal types support the 'Shifted' function keys. If you are planning on using them keep the 'important' utilities on SH1 to SF4 as these are supported by most.

Line settings 'device'

(System Management -> Setup -> General Apps -> Parameters -> Hardware -> Device Settings)

Each terminal on the system can be set up to default to a different printer, open till drawers etc. Using these options is is possible to alter the behaviour of each screen.

The menu will be:

• Add/Modify a definition
• Modify THIS Terminal
• List all devices
• Edit 'Master.dev'
• Edit 'Locations'

Modify a the terminal defaults

Single-user system users will be taken to the edit screen. On multi- user systems you will be asked to enter either the terminal device or node name, alternatively you can enter the terminal number. This can be found by entering a question mark at the main menu.

If you are wanting to change the screen you are currently using select 'Modify THIS terminal.

Once entered the screen will display:

Terminal Type               Ansi (Colour)
Default printer             A : Main Laser Printer
Label printer               B : Cons 1 label Printer            
Point of sale printer       D : Reception POS            
Tree View                   Default           
Location                    Office          
Surgery/branch              2             
Show VAT on CR              No
Till device   
Ask for Vet ID              No
Start up Logo               Type: 0
Emulator                    Anita
Branch Option

You will be asked to enter the option to change (1 - 13). When entering the terminal type, if a '?' is entered the available terminal types will be displayed. The options listed are:

Terminal type

The type of terminal connected to the line,a list of the available terminal type will be displayed.

Default printer

This is the printer this terminal will default to.

Label printer

The printer the terminal will print labels to by default.

Point of Sale printer

The printer the terminal will print today and POS bills/receipts to by default.

Tree View

This option controls whether the terminal will default to the tree view whenever a client record card is accessed and which menu style will be used.

Location

This is used to indicate where the terminal is physically located.

Surgery/branch

If the terminal is located in a remote surgery this option can be set to indicate the branch number. If set to zero then you will be asked on start-up the surgery number to be used.

Show VAT

If this is set then the clinical record screen will default to showing the VAT content of the line rather than the user id.

Till device

If a till is to be used by this terminal then the device used by the till should be entered here.

Ask for Vet ID

You may want specific terminals to always ask which User is entering the work. If so set this to Yes.

Start up Logo

Alters the appearance of the start up screen - options are 0, 1 or 2.

Emulator

If you are accessing the system with a terminal emulator you should specify the emulator here so the system can take advantage of the Windows Integration options built into it. The screen will show the possible emulators.

Type	Name	Details
K	Linix Desktop
T	SCO Termvision	http://www.sco.com/vision
N	Anita (Version 4)	http://www.april.se
I	Anita (Version 5)
E	Esker TUN	http://www.esker.com
P	Powerterm	http://ericom.com
Z	AnzioWin	http://www.anzio.com
B	AnzioLite

Branch

If a screen is set as 'R' reception then the following options will be set:

• The terminal will default to the Tree View.
• By default you will be prompted for the User who did the work (Note: User setting 108 will override this)

It is possible to configure these option by other means and has been added to help the PracticeMaster users.

List all devices

Edit 'Master.dev'

Edit 'Location'

Terminal Names

All devices have a name (or tag) associated with them, normally under Unix this will be the tty device e.g. tty01, tty1a02, tty003 etc. To find out the tty device you are on either type a '?' at the main menu and look for the enter 'Device' or at the O.S. prompt type tty.

If you are on a network device e.g. a PC or Terminal server then the device returned will be ttypxx. These devices are allocated on a first-come first-served basis so the software cannot always assume the device settings. To get round this you can use the network name rather then the tty device.

To determine your network name, exit to the O.S. prompt and type tty to find you tty number, then type who -x and look for your tty number in the second field - go along the line untill you find the 6th entry - that is you network name. e.g.

[bdsedin:ttyp11] root # tty
/dev/ttyp0
[bdsedin:ttyp11] root # who -x
root       ttyp11       Sep 29 13:57 hannah.uucp.com
root       ttyp14       Sep 29 11:35 hannah.uucp.com
lee        ttyp2        Oct 26 16:03 lee.uucp.com
tom        ttyp3        Oct 26 08:34 hannah.uucp.com
heather    ttyp6        Oct 26 08:57 heather.uucp.com
tom        ttyp0        Oct 26 09:21 hannah.uucp.com
lee        ttyp8        Oct 26 15:40 lee.uucp.com
andy       ttyp9        Oct 26 09:53 andy.uucp.com
andy       ttyp10       Oct 26 13:42 andy.uucp.com

Note: You may find rather than a name as in the above example, a 4 octet number e.g. 192.168.1.3, this is also a valid network name.

Once you have either the tty device or the network name you can customise your settings.

Colour events allow you to assign different colours to specific events. You can set a colour event:

• per analysis code
• for status codes
• general screen layout
• on specific clinical lines
• via an AP extended character

Colour events are supported on the main console, Dec VT525 terminals, PC terminals using SCOansi emulation and to a lesser extent Wyse 325 terminals (see the separate guide re 325's for details).

Events are based on user name and terminal type. Initially this guide will show you how to set up a global set of events.

Individuals can change their own colour events via the User-Info option on the main menu.

Setting up the events are done via the menu:

Which has the options :

Work out a list of the area's you want to associate e.g.

Payments, discounts and surcharges
Credit control
POM meditation
Major operations
Allergic Reactions
etc.

Allocate each an event (it is a good idea to leave gaps, don't use 1, 2, 3 etc. but rather go 10, 20, 30 etc. allowing you to add related topics later on.).

Use the 'Descriptions and Events' option, add the description, you will be prompted with the available colours - select as required.

When setting events, you should have a list of the available events. This is because when allocating events you enter the event number and not the event description.

• With analysis code

You can set a colour event to specific analysis codes, e.g. payments.
Use Automatic Pricing, Utilities, Mileage/Analysis, Edit - select the analysis code you want to allocate an event for and enter the event number. In the case of payments, this is analysis code 255, select it and enter the colour event.

• for status codes

The status code description that can be displayed on the management record.
Use Utilities, Codes (Status), Add/Edit details, select the status code to change, and add the event you want.

• Specific clinical lines

Use the Edit option to set the event.
Using the " symbol which is event 96

• From within Automatic Pricing

The extended meta character ^8= can by used on the AP card or within a macro to set the event e.g. code ^8=22 will set event 22.

• Screen colours

The top 50 colour events are used for setting what colours different parts of the vet system will use for displaying screens, boxes, lines etc. The following table summarises the possible screen events as of March 1997:

Hiding text

Some record cards may contain information you would rather the client does not see e.g. Bad Payer etc.

In this case you could, allocate the 'visible' terminals a unique number, set up colour events as normal BUT for text you don't want to be seen set up say black on black, red on red etc. This will render the text invisible.

Alternatively, have two user I.D.'s, one for consulting which you have set up a personal file with red on red, green on green etc. and another login for general use with valid colours.

Personal Events

Personal events are configured in exactly the same way as above and will take priority over the global events.

The third option on the event menu will allow you to switch to/from personal events.