User Settings

You can access some of the user setting from the main menu by entering a equals sign =.

This is a the same key that you use to read the System Message or to read personal messages.

The option covered here is User-Info.

The User-Info option allows specific users to:

• Change Their Name
• Change password
• Set a user defined colour scheme
• Menu Style used
• Some specific Access permissions

The user will have to enter their password prior to changing the settings, this is to stop other users changing your settings. Settings here are specific to the user and will not affect any other users on the system.

When selected the screen will show the current settings with a prompt line to set:

Colours

Every user can have a specific colour scheme, while the overall scheme is controlled by the System Administrator, you can set your own events which are unique to you. The procedure for setting them is identical to the Setting System Colours except you cannot change the overall colours e.g. use the global file.

One additional option when setting them this way, there are some sample colour schemes available. You can select one of the preset options, this will be used as a template - you use it as a starting point and then set as required.

Password

Rather than have your administrator change your password, this option allows you change it as required. You cannot have a blank password!!.

Name

Similar to the password option above, you can change the name printed on reports e.g. you get married, someone has mis-spelt your name.

You cannot change you acutal login name or user ID, these need to be set by your administrator.

Options

Most of the options within Premvet are protected by Access Permissions, these are set by your administrator to restrict access. A few options affect how the system looks, that is the relate to you as a user and not the system. This option allows you to change the few that relate to you:

56	Show Global System Message	Do you want to see the System message every time you login?
107	Switch off Ask for Date	If the system is asking for Date on each transaction you can switch it off so it always uses the current date for you.
108	Switch off Ask for User	If the system is asking for user on each transaction you can switch it off so any work entered is allocated to you.
109	Show Help Lines	Do you want to see the one line help lines along the bottom of the screen?
113	Use Arrow Keys to Edit	When making changes to the management record card do you want to use the arrow keys (the alternative is the 2 letter codes e.g. A1, A2 etc.)
115	Default to Clinical on MR	Do you want the default on the management card to be Clinical (alternative is Quit).
117	Use Clinical_Default	If the practice has setup a Clinical Default(s), do you want to use them or not. If no Clinical_Default has been set this will make no difference.
118	Use System Macros	Do you want to check for macros (this option is blocked automatically if you are a PDSA site).

Note: It may be that Practice Policy has been setup to restrict you - if so the option will show 'Blocked'.

Menu Style

There are three menu styles used by Premvet, you can change the style used. Note: Setting the sytle here will over-ride any systemwide or terminal based settings. The options are:

Classic	The 'old' vet3000 menu in the middle of the screen.
New Style	A box with similar items grouped together. This style has a much better interface to accessing clients, it also forces staff to search for animals before just adding them.
Hybrid	A combination of the above, uses new system search for animals but old-style menus options.

If you login as vet you cannot set individual menu styles.