Open Dental

For posterity, wanted to let this thread know that there ARE version specific builds available via Open Dental. Provided to paying customers only and housed on an internal share at the OD offices. You can ask customer service or an installer to provide a specific build instead of doing the blind upd...

Thanks for the note and open mind!

Thanks Jason I appreciate it. Forgive the confusion, but this is typically what Tags are used for in SVN (and other source control systems) as opposed to check-in comments. It's a little cumbersome, but I'm happy to dig/search through comments to find the revision that correctly identifies a build/r...

I've been pulling from the same label/tag (opendental18.1)...but in continues to change (new files, version# changes). It also shoots holes in the earlier conversation. Problem : How do I reproduce a specific version of Open Dental? If the About->Help reads "Open Dental 18.1.55"...how would one repr...

Thanks for the quick reply. Please correct me, what I heard below was: "Open Dental doesn't provide a history of builds per se, instead OD exposes SVN and the team creates Tags/Labels when specific releases are chosen. If you need to reproduce the product at a specific version, OD's suggestion is to...

Is there a build of Open Dental 18.1 available (ideally with install shield)?

On a related note, are there general builds available (e.g. release history). This would be helpful for maintaining Plugins across a series of OD versions.

Great, thanks Chris!

Thanks gents, those are some quality answers.

Much appreciated,
Tyler

After reading the DLL Naming and Update Sequence at http://www.opendental.com/manual/plugins.html, I'm confused about how the Plugins under Setup -> Program Links are kept current. Specifically, when a user chooses one of the stock plugins available with OD: 1) How does that Plugin's assemblies get ...

Hey Chris, Thanks for the reply. The second question is looking for a more "human readable" version of the first answer. Is there anything besides a RegistrationKey that describes an install? Are there any Non-unique traits of an OD install that help identify a Site/Practice (e.g. Joe's Dental, Smil...

Thanks Chris. Any way to tell whether Auth has been turned on for a given install?

I.E. If I call OpenDentBusiness.Security.CurUser, and I get the Admin user, how do I know the difference between someone logging in as Admin (with Auth ON), vs. everyone being an Admin (with Auth OFF).

Open Dental supports the idea of user authentication/identity (http://www.opendental.com/manual/security.html). How do I programatically identify the currently "logged in" user to Open Dental? How does this behave when there's no authentication enabled in Open Dental? E.G. Is there a Class/Method th...

We're currently in the midst of syncing the data from multiple Open Dental installs into a single multi-tenant database. 1) What's the best way to uniquely identify an Open Dental Installation (e.g. instance of a database)? 2) Is there an identifier or a label (e.g. SiteID, Install_Id) that uniquely...

Thanks Chris, we're using a PluginAssemblyName.dll.config file right now housed in the OpenDental bin folder.

We'll look into migrating this into the OD database.

What's the guidance for persisting plugin specific settings (e.g. connection strings to remote resources)? And how would one keep these updated?

Context : We're working on syncing select data from OD into a cloud hosted (multi-tenant) database. Question #1 : What is Open Dental's current install base? What kind of growth has it seen (e.g. net install base per year)? We'd like to use this to get a feel for table space sizing and growth. Ques...