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Time - How long do you spend with the client?

 When on a clients card F10 (or <Ctrl> F) will show the time spent so far with the client.

Pricing based on time spent

 Auto price by time, if &mins appears in the automatic pricing text then this will be replace by the amount of time so far the client record has been displayed on the screen. e.g.

Discussed && for &mins mins would appear as

Discussed Fido for 10 mins

The number of minutes will be taken as the quantity so this can be used to alter the price based on the time spend with the client.

Analysis Logging of time spent

Tied to the above option of time spent with a client. You can log in a spreadsheet file the amount of time users are spending with clients.

The setup is explained below. Up to 12 separate categories can be kept to log work involving Consultations, procedures, drugs etc. The CSV file will be stored in the text sub-directory and contain the following information:


   "Date",     "End Time", "Duration",  "Vet",  "Client", "Ana", "Value"
   "18.03.99", "21:53",    " 1",        "BDS",   " 54",   " 6",  "14.49"
Each 'category' will be help in a separate file and there will be one category file per month. They will be named: 
     XX_MMYY.csv  where XX is category, MM = month, YY = year

Use the CSV files option on the Text Utilities menu to access these files.

Note: The logged analysis code will be the code that appeared 1st in that category which may not be the 1st entered. The value is the total amount entered for that transaction and not that of just the analysis code.

Setting up Analysis logging

This is done via an option:
Automatic Pricing -> Utilities -> Logging -> Analysis
The screen will allow you to enter a description for the category and a range of analysis codes: 
   01  Consultations       10-20, 30
   02  Operations          100, 103, 105
In the above example, any work entered with analysis code 10 to 20 and 30 will be logged under 'Consultations (01)' while codes 100, 103 and 105 will be in Operations (02).

Remember the 1st category any of the analysis codes appear in is the one used. For example, you enter a procedure code 100 and a consultation code 10, the work will logged under Consultations even if the procedure was entered 1st.

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