Read220d Premvet 5 (Version 2.20.02) - January 2005

Access Permissions

The following access permissions have been added or changed.

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The 'Financial' Sub-menu was protected only by access Permission 48. This has changed to also include the more generic 'Financial Reports' permission of 105 AS WELL. That is, if the user as access to either of the options they have access to the Financial side of DM.

Payments and other NON write-off work added to the BadDebt card are now included.

Cards with just payments - no chargable work are - included automatically - you no longer need to specify -o incnoclin for them to appear.

A new sub-menu has been added to the Clinical index for Analysis code breakdown. This includes 2 new reports to give a breakdown over the LAST 12 months by Times used or FInancial.

The Turnover by Day of Week (dayofw.sql) script has been altered so the `morning' starts at 8am rather than 9am.

When entering the details on 'page 2' (the a href="/premvet/manual/pv5/ch14.html#a">condensed history screen), you no longer need to 'know' the entry number from the user defined file (Z), the system will check the description automatically. You can still enter the test number if you know it. Pressing return at the prompt will allow you to enter freehand text - or you can prefix the details with an approstrophe (') as per normal Automatic pricing.

The user who entered the details and the surgery number are included.

Details from the condensed history screen are exported to DataMajor in the 'history' table.

A new field 'Flags' has been added to the AP card. This works in an identical manner to the Flags field under stock. There are 8 flags, these are either Yes (1) or No (0) - currently none of the flags are pre-allocated.

You can add a `meaningfull' description to the flags by setting AP_Flag_X = Description to params.txt, where X is the flag being set.

The Flags can be reported on via the AP report Generator.

Some practices allocated their Out of Hours work to a separate branch number by setting the surgery to zero so it asks. This works well except it prompts at every login. There is a new params.txt entry 'OOH_Surgery' which will get round this.

The format is: 'OOH_Surgery = Time Surgery Terminal' where Terminal is optional - it can be used to change the screen colours (Axels, PC's and console only) for the OOH service.

e.g.

  OOH_Surgery = 19:30 5 18

This will, for screens logging in after 19:30 (7:30pm), switch the surgery number to branch 5 and use the terminal colours for terminal type 18. You can set the Surgery to Zero is you still want the system to prompt at login time. The system will assume the OOH service will finish at 07:59.

(See read220e for other changes)

The Sheets option (Management -> Write) is NAS (Network Attached Storage) aware. You can off-load all the digital attachments X-Rays, Lab Work, Letters etc. directly onto a NAS device. There is no conflict if you are using the NAS device for backup's at the same time, assuming a different folder is being used. You can exclude 'sheets' from the nightly backup.

For the technical among you, this line will do it, assuming 'snap' is the name of the NAS server, sheets is the folder on the NAS server and the vet system is in the default location.

   mount -f NFS,soft snap:/sheets /u/vetdata/sheets

We also recommend you add it to /etc/rc.d/8 so it mounts automatically after a re-boot.

Four sample definition files are provided:

nix1.def	Idexx Blood Request Form
nix2.def	Idexx Bacteriolgy/Parasitology Form
nix3.def	Idexx Histology Form
nix4.def	Idexx Rabies Virus Serology Form

In all cases the system will use the `Site Specific' reserved word &site5 to add your account number to the forms
(System - - Parameters - Lookup - Site Specific - 5).

The Rabies form will use &site7 for your fax number.

As with all examples you are encouraged to rename the sample to avoid it being overwritten with future changes.

• Unattended validation option 'nomail' is now on by default. To revert to the old behaviour use -o mail.

• A problem with Composite Invoices when using surcharges based on aged amounts has been fixed. Surcharge amounts will no longer be carried over to related animals.

• The 'High Transaction Value' question within Automatic Pricing will now also warn you if the QUANTITY of goods being supplied is high (over 9999 units) in addition to financial amounts.

• Lifelearn handouts: If you have these set to attach a clinical record the system they will now use the full name from the index file as the description rather than the filename.

• pvprice - Long AP descriptions will now be scanned in full - prior to this only the 1st 25 characters were looked at.

URI » http://www.premvet.co.uk/ • Updated » Sat May 28 22:48:47 BST 2005 by twm