Read300f (Version 3.01.09) - September 2009 ... November 2009

Access Permissions

Access permissions 149 to 152 have been allocated to VetEnvoy and it's associated managers.

DataMajor

If a stock item line has been marked with a 'Disease Tag' is used on an animal card it will appear in it's own column in the clinical table (ClinDTag).
Expanded user information (see below) has added to the user table (refer to on-line manual for column names).

User Details

The number of users (Active, Retired, Leavers) has been expanded to just over 65 thousand.

Prior version used one field or the full name, this has been expanded to 'split' the name into Title, Christian and Surname. Post upgrade you may wish to alter the active users so the reports look nice. Users can change their own details:

From the main menu, select '=' then User-Info -> Name - here you can change your name, password, e-mail, telephone number. You cannot change your login details or the group you belong to - refer those changes to your system manager.

Start/End Dates - The system will now record, both start and leaving dates, the leaving date will be filled in automatically when the user is retired.

Note: The data held about users is in a different format in this release as you may tell. This will not affect you unless you are in the habit of syncing users between sites. If this is the case, ensure that all sites are upgraded before user changes are made. You should upgrade the satellite sites first.

Protocols

Automatic calling - pva014 will called when an appointment is made in the diary (Old Style).

You can add multiple text boxes to clinical records - See the sample soap.pro and FAQ in the Protocol section for usage ideas and options.

New FAQ section on the Web Site with notes on how to configure and setup some the samples provided.

Drug Interactions and Warnings

You can now use WEIGHT as an option to block on e.g. if animal weight is greater than something or less that - the two sample lines below:

286	Weight > 20	Will warn if over 20kgs
287	Weight < 5	Will warn if less that 5kg

This should allow you to address interactions on giant dogs and drugs not suited for the lighter rodents.

The Interaction program was originally aimed at small animals and never knew about Equines. With the changes for horse meat and the possibility of human consumption the system will set the SPECIES to Equine for 'EQ' cards so this can be used.

The two weight examples and the Equine entry have been added to the pre-configured file.

Automatic Pricing

The extended meta-characters, ^11, ^22, ^34, ^37, ^38 and ^39 can all be used to print letters, definition files and protocols. Normally they are used with the file/letter to print e.g. ^37=soap to run the protocol soap.pro or ^11=weight for the definition file weight.def.

If the name is left off the system will now use the procedure name. e.g. An AP Procedure with a code SOAP and ^37= on the extras line will be taken as ^37=soap

Mobile Telephone Numbers

Many sites have mobile numbers specified on the primary phone number screen rather than on the Number Specific Screen.

A stand-alone option vet -p phone has been added to allow you to tidy up the numbers.

The system will extract any 07xx numbers and move them over to the Mobile Number field.

This procedure is covered in a separate guide on the FAQ site.

The Stand Alone utility will set a management Flag (15) to say there is a possible problem with the card. If you add '15' to any alerts you have set via MR_Flag_Alert then you will get a pop-up alter on records. You can take this one step further, adding Box_On_F15 = Yes to params.txt then the system will allow you to edit any for the details.

You can get the same box up by pressing the Function Key F1 on the management screen. If the user does not have access permissions 11 (edit) they will only be allowed to view the numbers.

VAT Rate Change (back to 17.5)

We have included a vet script (vet -p vat17) than can be run via at (a background process) to allow the system to automatically adjust the VAT rate, change the Stock and AP VAT rates from any items set to 15% to 17.5%

This can be scheduled as follows - at a vet> or # prompt type:

   at 1am Jan 1    (Press RETURN)
   vet -p vat17    (Press RETURN)
   ^D              (Press CRTL and d)

You can add the 'above' any time between now and the 1st January.

Misc

PDSA centres have a Donations line added - if the params.txt entry Show_Today_Donation = Yes set then these lines will be included on today bill/receipts.
There was a character counter in the top left corner of text boxes - this has been suppressed unless you are sending an SMS text message.
Mutt - A newer version of the mailer used in Premvet (Mutt) has been added to our ftp site - Version 1.5.20 which has support for some of the attachments sent by mobile phones and Windows users. The update is on ftp://premvet.co.uk/pub/update. We recommend you get support to install this for you.
A problem with securely passing animal micro-chip numbers electronically to AVID has been resolved ( See read300a for full details of option).
Vatbook - the csv files that is generated on period resets will include the breakdown by branch work done.
Laboratory Results (Screen 1) - Results will be displayed to three decimal places.
Asking questions (.QU xxx) in a definition file, there was a limit of 75 characters - if you exceed this the system will silently truncate the question.
Classifications - the you do not set a description to explain that it is the system will default to 'Class-XX' where XX is the number set.
Drug labels - The reserved word &species can be used to add the species to the label.

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