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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: eForms
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18
eForms
We are aggressively building eForms. This brand new framework will completely replace mobile sheets and webforms. It will be used for patient forms, insurance info, medical history, and consent forms. Normal sheets could still be used, and it will not otherwise replace sheets in general because shee...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Eclipboard on Tablet for Intake Forms
- Replies: 2
- Views: 204
Re: Eclipboard on Tablet for Intake Forms
The way eClipboard should behave is that if it loses connection, it should not crash. Patient should instead see a progress bar of some sort while eClipboard attempts to reconnect, even if that takes 5 min and requires going into tablet settings or whatever. Under no circumstances should a loss of c...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Emailing X-rays with Integrated X-rays and Scan-X
- Replies: 1
- Views: 194
Re: Emailing X-rays with Integrated X-rays and Scan-X
That's a bug. All flipping, rotating, and cropping should be applied to any outgoing image. I'm reporting it to our bug list.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Out of Memory Exception
- Replies: 1
- Views: 145
Re: Out of Memory Exception
What specific version are you using?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Subsciber ID in Xray Mounts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2430
Re: Subsciber ID in Xray Mounts
It looks like that field is not currently an option. But it would be very fast to add, and since it's required and I don't see any possible workaround, we will add it immediately. It will be in version 24.1, hopefully within the next few days.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
Conversion of the actual Imaging module window is underway in stages. Many controls have been converted, including the image selector at the left, the windowing slider, and the zoom slider. The toolbars have been overhauled again, with more icons. Nobody should be able to see any difference at all w...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: maximize/minimize new version
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1915
Re: maximize/minimize new version
What version did you move from? I think it's been that way for a very long time. That's a Windows 11 feature called Snap Layouts. Open Dental uses custom title bars, so it doesn't have support for Snap Layouts. We made our own similar feature from scratch for use in the Imaging module to allow you t...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I can't believe it's been a month since my last post. The thing I'm most excited about is that I came up with yet another trick to remove the need to convert windows to WPF if they are too hard right now. I'm using a global static event that FormOpenDental subscribes to. Any WPF window can call a me...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: 3D tooth chart under linux
- Replies: 26
- Views: 44236
Re: 3D tooth chart under linux
I looked into it. The ToolBarOD is pretty solid. I verified that it only repainted when it needed to, like if the mouse is moved to a new hover button. It doesn't repaint if you just move the mouse around on the same button. So that was my main concern. The timer seems harmless, since it's a pretty ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
Finished up a lot of details on the ImageSelector. The new one completely replaces the old one already, and I can't tell any difference at all. It admittedly took quite a bit longer than I planned. In the process, I perfected a technique for setting the scale and zoom of these nested WPF controls. T...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: 3D tooth chart under linux
- Replies: 26
- Views: 44236
Re: 3D tooth chart under linux
I would expect it to draw better in DirectX than in OpenGL. We switched away from OpenGL about 10 years ago after a good solid attempt. Since we're using MS, DirectX is just a better fit. Thank you so much for tracking down that CPU usage in the ToolBar. I have a little down time at the moment, and ...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:53 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
We've been working hard on conversion of the Imaging module. I've personally been working on the ImageSelector at the left. It's just about done. This has required a lot of work on peripheral issues like the ToolTip, vector drawing with SVG-style commands, and some threading to load thumbnails quick...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:29 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: 3D tooth chart under linux
- Replies: 26
- Views: 44236
Re: 3D tooth chart under linux
As we move to WPF, issues like the fonts should get better. We've already been able to reduce the number of calls to the Windows API, and I can see us being able to get rid of those completely some day. We're still on 32 bit because of all the bridges we have with other software. We'll have to build...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
CustomGPT worked. But by worked, I mean it's about 80% accurate. It can spit out great responses that are relevant to OpenDental. The responses are not word-for-word from our manual, but are reorganized and summarized as only ChatGPT can so elegantly do. The main problem is the 20% that's wrong. You...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: 23.2 beta period length?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3647
Re: 23.2 beta period length?
Looks like we might release 23.3 as beta within a week. 23.2 would then become stable.
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
The steel framework is going up for Bldg H. Always exciting to watch the welders. I've asked ChatGPT questions about how to use Open Dental, and the answers are garbage. I'm going to try CustomGPT, but my expectations are low. We all know what we want, but I just think nobody has been able to build ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I've been very productive. Spent a lot of time working with other engineers on interesting and complex jobs. A few examples: -Perio chart refactoring is going nicely. The code is gradually getting more sane and less spaghetti. This is critical before any actual improvements can be made. -FAQ at the ...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
Making some pretty fast progress in lots of little details: -added WebBrowser control -added SplitContainer control -added properties to all windows for ShowMinMax, StartMaximized, HideHelpButton, etc. -finished up translation framework -improved the help button -fixed window icons -context menu sho...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:59 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I've been working on more WPF details, including: -added TreeView control with images -added checkboxes to listBox for some situations. -implemented Autonote composition in WPF, including the automatic yellow text selection. -getting closer to finishing up our richText box. This is already starting ...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I've been working on lots of little things: -Rich text box. Ours is very customized, with a number of dependent popup windows for things like autoNotes and quickPasteNotes. So there are lots of moving parts. It's maybe 50% done. -Filter controls. This is chunk of code that someone wrote about 10 yea...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I think a lot about what Open Dental might look like in 20 years. I'm pretty certain that users will have the ability to interact with it in ordinary spoken language. This would mostly be useful for new users who don't know where things are or why things look the way they do. Once you understand eve...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4145
Re: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
I can't tell if you're using the API or not for this other window.
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:56 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I think my posts will tend to get a bit more technical from here on out, since that's what consumes most of my time and attention. I've been working on a variety of properties for WPF, like IsEnabled and ReadOnly. I also added a PictureBox control. There are an awful lot of little details that need ...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I switched to a standing desk. Sitting is an independent risk factor for diabetes, probably because constant muscle work is needed to process sugar. The brand we use is from Autonomous.ai. I'm not the first at the company. We already have hundreds of them. I thought I would get tired, but not as muc...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2793
Re: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
This is a duplicate post. I answered the other one.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:12 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4145
Re: Is it safe to always trust the aging data in the patient table?
I thought it was recalculated when a claim was created and pretty much everywhere that it might change. We also need it to be accurate in order to display it, so I'm leaning toward thinking you can always trust it.
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Re: Jordan's blog
I'm on vacation now. That's very exciting because I can get lots of work done on the plane, in the evenings, etc. I'll build and enhance a number of WPF controls so that we can convert some more complex windows in a few weeks. A really complicated one will be the perio chart. It's very old. There ar...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Jordan's blog
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10583
Jordan's blog
I think maybe I'll try blogging here for a while just to give people an idea of what I'm personally doing. Maybe about once a week. This week, I finished the conversion tool for switching from WinForms to WPF. We have about 1000 windows to convert, so we're starting with the simple small windows. Th...
- Mon May 22, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: EXTRACTION ICON QUESTION
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4170
Re: EXTRACTION ICON QUESTION
That's a reasonable idea, but it's fighting with all the other requests for prominence. There are some fairly simple workarounds, so it's just not going to be very high priority. One example of a workaround. After extracting the residual root, mark that tooth missing so that you can put a pontic the...
- Sat May 20, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Keyboard shortcuts for GM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19885
Re: Keyboard shortcuts for GM
The perio chart was designed under the assumption that you would have an assistant doing the data entry. That assistant can keep up by using the keyboard and mouse. If you don't have an assistant, then entry was optimized to use touch screen. Mouse and keyboard by the person doing the exam is the la...
- Sat May 20, 2023 12:52 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Fonts are too large/ graphics messed up
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8493
Re: Fonts are too large/ graphics messed up
The description for how to add that file is on the Zoom page in the manual. This page:
https://www.opendental.com/manual/zoom.html
https://www.opendental.com/manual/zoom.html
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:37 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Where is OD going?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6417
Re: Where is OD going?
One more thing I should point out is that we spend a huge amount of time rebuilding the same functionality that we already have, except with more modern tools. If we don't do this, then the software becomes more fragile over time. When the Southwest Airlines software choked a few months ago, it was ...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Where is OD going?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6417
Re: Where is OD going?
Hi, Steve. I looked up your account out of curiosity. Looks like you were approximately customer number 30 about 19 years ago. What were you thinking? Who buys software that only has a handful of customers? Anyway, you got lucky, and we're still forging ahead.
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Spell Check and screen scrolling
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3989
Re: Spell Check and screen scrolling
I have not yet noticed that, but it sounds like a legitimate bug.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:01 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13766
Re: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
We continue to deprecate plug-ins. A program link button sounds like a perfect fit.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Any way to export records for maintenance?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5189
Re: Any way to export records for maintenance?
Just start fresh and keep them as two separate databases. We don't charge per database. We charge per active office/provider combo.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: open dental and apteryx conversion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4926
Re: open dental and apteryx conversion
1. Never thought about it. I'll add it to the planned features. Yes, it does sound like a good idea. 2. I would think of historical radiographs as nice to have, but I wouldn't count on much. If you don't get your hopes up, you won't be disappointed. I really don't know the answers. The conversions t...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:38 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: open dental and apteryx conversion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4926
Re: open dental and apteryx conversion
I think the original developer of Apteryx had a lot of special inside knowledge. Native sensor support is very hard. Kudos to them for a great product. I always thought the independent imaging software companies would be around forever, so we didn't really do any imaging development for the first 15...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: How OD decides treatment area for procedure codes?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3775
Re: How OD decides treatment area for procedure codes?
They are all just recommendations. There's a lot of flexibility and each insurance company also handles them differently. For 'D0140', 'D0145', 'D0150', 'D0160', 'D0170', 'D0310', and 'D0320' ADA - Does not recommend putting anything Open dental - Treatment area to Mouth Well, "nothing" is really sy...
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:53 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Where is OD going?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6417
Re: Where is OD going?
Having robots do the drilling on patients was definitely not tongue in cheek. I expect that to happen in approximately 80 years, which is only 40 years after I'm dead. To make it feel more plausible, start imagining all the steps that it would take to get from here to there. The roughly half-way poi...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Done With Apteryx
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5691
Re: Done With Apteryx
Your device type was Twain Multi?
https://www.opendental.com/manual/imagingdevices.html
And you were using a fairly new version?
I've added the Insurance ID field to
https://www.opendental.com/site/imaging ... ments.html
https://www.opendental.com/manual/imagingdevices.html
And you were using a fairly new version?
I've added the Insurance ID field to
https://www.opendental.com/site/imaging ... ments.html
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Where is OD going?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6417
Re: Where is OD going?
We are nowhere close to being done with Open Dental. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible. I'm personally getting to the end of a months long effort to make it work better on very high dpi screens. It's so much nicer at 4k. Some other things that excite me in the short term: -It loo...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Done With Apteryx
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5691
Re: Done With Apteryx
The Dexis website for GxTWAIN https://dexis.com/en-us/gxtwain-and-gxpicture says that multiple images are tranferred with the the Get All function. We support multiple image transfer, so it should already work fine. You mentioned not having a "bucket". I think what you are looking for is the Mount f...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Done With Apteryx
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5691
Re: Done With Apteryx
> We are still waiting for a couple imaging features to be incorporated
What features do you feel are missing? There's not any active development in the Imaging module at the moment.
What features do you feel are missing? There's not any active development in the Imaging module at the moment.
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:01 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: To set up a referral letter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6676
Re: To set up a referral letter
In a referral letter sheet, you can indeed add a field for notes that can be edited from patient to patient. It wouldn't be much use otherwise. But there is one gotcha to beware of. If your letter contains a toothchart or a grid, then it gets saved as an uneditable pdf. You can still edit when it fi...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:47 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Major Security Issue with Images
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3488
Re: Major Security Issue with Images
From all the options you listed, it kind of sounds like enhancing sFTP is the way to go. I wasn't aware that people were running into limitations with that.
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:44 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Account Balance Bug
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5136
Re: Account Balance Bug
There's an undocumented pref called FuchsOptionsOn, which I believe you added a very long time ago. You are the only user who has that pref turned on. We've been gradually stripping those out as we run across them (sorry). So there is also a slight chance that there is some mixed behavior going on. ...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:12 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Mass replace procedure codes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5137
Re: Mass replace procedure codes
You can run queries to get data like that out of the database, but you should never run queries that alter the database. In theory, your approach might work. I'm 75% sure it would work, but I just can't be certain. If you corrupt your database, fixing it could be a big hassle. I think someone can fi...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Death indicator in HL7
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6658
Re: Death indicator in HL7
Maybe when someone dies, you change the status in Open Dental. Then, if they're a non-patient, they shouldn't come through in the first place. In other words, do the same thing with a different approach. Yes, it will require staff to change the statuses, but it should be easy to run a report to see ...
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:01 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
0. Are you sure you have your Imaging Device set up for TWAIN Multi? It sounds like you still have it set up for single images. https://www.opendental.com/manual223/imagingdevices.html 1. That's new functionality that wasn't even a feature prior to 22.2. It's possible that we only tested it for acqu...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: 3D graphics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2997
Re: 3D graphics
Yes, that is one of many goals. Even once we achieve it, it will still get better over many years. It's one of those features that will gradually mature because it's just so open ended. It's going to require some AI to be able to understand what it's seeing. Unlike automobile AI, this does not have ...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: 3D graphics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2997
3D graphics
I've just started on the next iteration of the 3D graphics. I think this is the sixth time I've overhauled the tooth chart. One of the earliest versions, 20 years ago, was a simple jpg that I drew shapes on. Some of the overhauls have been required by updates to graphics cards over the years, and so...
- Mon May 16, 2022 7:25 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API General Update Request | Include TimeZone on all datetimes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2578
Re: API General Update Request | Include TimeZone on all datetimes
Including it in the date field seems like a breaking change. On the other hand, everyone is probably parsing the date with a library that could easily handle the change. Still, I think we'll need to make it an option that you intentionally turn on.
- Mon May 16, 2022 6:24 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Patient Pictures into system quickly
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11574
Re: Patient Pictures into system quickly
This topic is 10 years old. A lot has changed. I can think of two different ways to do it, and there are probably more. 1. Use our automatic import feature. https://www.opendental.com/manual/images.html About one page down is a section called Import Automatically. You could set the default path to y...
- Sun May 15, 2022 10:07 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Deleting Multiple Existing Procedures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3328
Re: Deleting Multiple Existing Procedures
I think it was more important to first add the security. Adding additional ways to delete would be additional features and take additional programming time. So it's just that we don't have unlimited resources. Yes, it sounds like a helpful feature. That's why we have thousands of feature requests. M...
- Sat May 14, 2022 8:26 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Intraoral scanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2679
Re: Intraoral scanner
Yeah, I'll take one sample of each format. jordan{at}opendental{dot}com
- Sat May 14, 2022 7:48 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Where is the DB relationship between definitions/websched and appointmenttype?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5551
Re: Where is the DB relationship between definitions/websched and appointmenttype?
I just added this to our schema under definition.DefCat enum: Each appointment can be assigned one appointment.AppointmentTypeNum. Multiple AppointmentTypes are linked to this definition through the DefLink table, where deflink.DefNum=definition.DefNum, deflink.LinkType=2, and deflink.FKey=appointme...
- Sun May 08, 2022 1:17 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4579
Re: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
And now you can show mounts on sheets. A typical example would be showing an FMX or photo collage on a referral letter.
- Sat May 07, 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4579
Re: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
OK, you can now double click on an image and you get a new window that lets you pick any other image for that patient. It's still a little rough around the edges. For example, it will take a few more hours to implement this for mounts. But it is at least working. It will be in version 22.2, which sh...
- Sat May 07, 2022 12:07 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4579
Re: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
I reviewed our current functionality. It's easy to keep track of referral sources and how they are attached to patients. It's easy to create a letter to a specific referral. This part of our software is called "sheets". Once the letter is generated and on the screen, I can edit the text of the lette...
- Fri May 06, 2022 7:54 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4579
Re: Open Dental for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) clinics
Or we could get our act together and improve the referral letters. I thought we already had images on referral letters, but maybe it's time to go back and take another look.
- Fri May 06, 2022 4:39 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
I've tested the ScanX with switching Windows users. I also had an issue, but not the one you described. My issue was that the scanner was not recognized as present, and I had to power cycle it. Then, it worked. I could not get it to lock up for me. I would suggest that you set up a Windows user for ...
- Wed May 04, 2022 10:05 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Intraoral scanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2679
Intraoral scanner
Would anyone be able to send us a few 3D scans from an intraoral scanner so that we could work on showing them inside of Open Dental? Could be any format, like Medit .obj file or 3Shape .dcm file. And, of course, we'll need an .stl file, too. If it's an .obj file, I'm assuming the textures (photos) ...
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:51 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
I'm trying to find time to test the Scan-X issue.
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:50 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Ortho brackets
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2531
Ortho brackets
Ortho brackets are successfully drawing, so they will be part of version 22.2.
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:11 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Patient notes through API
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3503
Re: Patient notes through API
Your endpoint looks wrong. Instead of this:
GET https://api.opendental.com/fhir/patientNotes/13
it should be like this:
GET https://api.opendental.com/api/v1/patientNotes/13
GET https://api.opendental.com/fhir/patientNotes/13
it should be like this:
GET https://api.opendental.com/api/v1/patientNotes/13
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:32 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Schedules with google
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2585
Schedules with google
I got the following as a private msg. Posting it here for everyone: Here is the n8n / Javascript to perform a google calendar update w/o webhooks. I would like to reuse this code for schedules which requires the GET schedules/xxx for deletion. Google calendar will then update calendly. Code below. J...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:28 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Xray Mount Thumbnails in imaging module
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Re: Xray Mount Thumbnails in imaging module
Done for version 22.2
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:45 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Xray Mount Thumbnails in imaging module
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Re: Xray Mount Thumbnails in imaging module
It wasn't planned to have separate control of thumbnails for chart vs imaging, but it's a good idea, so it might even get done today. It is not planned to split radiographs into their own module. But we might add better toggles at the top of the list for showing radiographs vs front office documents...
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:35 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
32 bit is not helpful. My vote is for RGB. Example "200,100,52". We could later add hex if some people prefer it, but the conversion between the two is really easy.
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:30 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3435
Re: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
Ah, thanks for researching that. I suspect that your background finally got taller than 4000, and that's why you noticed it. We chose what we thought was a ridiculously tall number that nobody would ever hit. Each page is 1100 tall, so that's almost 4 pages. There might not be a problem with us allo...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3435
Re: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
Someone at Open Dental should research this to find out when it was changed and why. Then, we will know what to do.
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:11 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API or short query GET patient profile photo
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2089
Re: API or short query GET patient profile photo
It sounds like you first need a query to know which document. Then, you could use POST DownloadSftp to get that image. SELECT DefNum FROM definition WHERE Category=18 AND ItemValue LIKE '%P%'; If you get a valid DefNum (190 in this example), then use: SELECT DocNum FROM document WHERE DocCategory=19...
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:51 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Use WHATSAPP to text your patients from Open Dental
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13156
Re: Use WHATSAPP to text your patients from Open Dental
Plugins are being deprecated for users in the US, so this would only work outside the US.
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:50 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3435
Re: Sheet - image field max height is 4000
4000 would be 40", but paper is only 11" tall. Does it spill across multiple pages?
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:41 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API: high/duplicate AptNum returned by Appointments GET (multiple)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3205
Re: API: high/duplicate AptNum returned by Appointments GET (multiple)
We settled on this about 15 years ago. It allowed different ranges of PKs for different offices all using the same database with replication, so that there was virtually no chance of collision. Also, many tables such as logs can fill up rather quickly. It's something that must be intentionally turne...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:39 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: FHIR with trial version
- Replies: 34
- Views: 43418
Re: FHIR with trial version
We just release chart module data, and we could make a method for TP data, if that's what you are asking for. Maybe start a new thread instead of reusing the very old and unrelated thread.
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:38 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API: high/duplicate AptNum returned by Appointments GET (multiple)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3205
Re: API: high/duplicate AptNum returned by Appointments GET (multiple)
But it's always possible for patient databases to have extremely large primary keys. You need to be able to handle them, even if they are large. In C#, the type is long, and in mysql, the same type is called bigint. It can have a max of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:06 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Ah, thank you for the complete explanation. This might be enough for us to be able to duplicate the problem here.
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:05 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: mysqladmin flush-hosts
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11208
Re: mysqladmin flush-hosts
So when you were doing testing with HL7, I'm unclear if you were connecting directly to the db. If so, then you were probably the one who created all the extra connections. Instead, try to reuse the same connection.
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:04 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
What version are you on?
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:00 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Issue - Slots
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5363
Re: API Issue - Slots
I think Get Slots is the best right now until we add the new functionality. You could use a little math to generate appropriate individual slots.
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:25 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Postman Response - "The server has encountered an error."
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2721
Re: Postman Response - "The server has encountered an error."
We're reaching out to you by email. We need to know which offices.
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:16 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Postman Response - "The server has encountered an error."
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2721
Re: Postman Response - "The server has encountered an error."
We'll stop working on other things and focus on this problem. There should be no active bugs like this, so we'll work on it aggressively.
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:12 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Issue - Slots
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5363
Re: API Issue - Slots
This is a good point. The thinking was that if you count each possible time as a slot, then you would just get a bunch of slots for the same day, whereas it might be more useful to get one for each day, and then you could pick any time within that range. Unfortunately, you would need to do a little ...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:54 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3696
Re: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
Until we get that done, we would be happy to move one customer at a time for you manually. Contact us by email for that.
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:08 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3696
Re: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
Since our permissions are all at the developer level, I think we're going to be stuck with moving a customer key from one developer to another. Permissions at the customer level would be a massive change. It's possible, of course, but just not sure if it makes the most sense. I think I would rather ...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:32 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3696
Re: API Keys Tier 2 and Tier 3
Let me clarify. Do you currently have two separate developer keys? It sounds like this would be the first step, so that each "developer" had different permissions. Then, we need to add a tool to the developer portal to let you move a customer key from one of your developers to the other. Does that s...
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:56 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Does the patientNotes PUT endpoint allow setting the `Service` column of the `patientnote` table?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3674
Re: Does the patientNotes PUT endpoint allow setting the `Service` column of the `patientnote` table?
Hmm, I don't quite understand. I don't know how much you know about our schema, so I'll start at a very high level, and then you can reply to help me narrow in on what you are asking. Our schema is here: https://www.opendental.com/OpenDentalDocumentation21-4.xml The following tables might be related...
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:28 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Tabbing in the Benefit Frequencies Box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2858
Re: Tabbing in the Benefit Frequencies Box
I'm assuming this is in the Edit Benefits window:
https://www.opendental.com/manual/benefitinfo.html
https://www.opendental.com/manual/benefitinfo.html
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:12 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Crashed table
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5955
Re: Crashed table
The database integrity warnings would be totally unrelated to the issue of this thread, which is restoring a backup. You should never get a false positive on those integrity warnings. What specific version of OpenDental are you using?
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:54 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Request-Blockouts
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4534
Re: API Request-Blockouts
Yes, we will do this. It would be GET schedules.
Re: Events
I did get the first UI event to fire. This event fires every time you change patients, and it tells you who the new patient is.
Re: Events
Events are functional and will be in version 22.1. So you subscribe to an event https://www.opendental.com/site/apisubscriptions.html and now it fires off to your chosen end point. It's pretty cool. The next step, which I hope to have done before the end of the weekend, is UI events. Push a button o...
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:05 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Crashed table
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5955
Re: Crashed table
My thought is that maybe our dataintegritycheck needs to be adapted to maria? I'm skeptical that the suggestions to uninstall and reinstall things would do much. I'm so happy that you are regularly trying to restore your database. You won't go bankrupt when your server crashes. It really should be e...
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:00 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Does the patientNotes PUT endpoint allow setting the `Service` column of the `patientnote` table?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3674
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:53 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
Thank you. Got it. We will look into it.
Re: Local API
That's correct. Usually, when an IT person hears "open a port", then assume we mean changing a rule on the router to allow incoming traffic from the dangerous web. That's not what we're talking about.
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 3:55 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Compile error
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1825
Re: Compile error
Maybe right click on the Solution in the Solution Explorer tab and click Restore NuGet Packages?
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 3:53 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: compile error with 21.4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5167
Re: compile error with 21.4
It's always a bear to learn all the nuances. It can take some work with the configuration manager and with removing and adding references. We give some guidance here: https://www.opendental.com/site/sourcecode.html Also, if you're using it for testing purposes, you can just install the trial version...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:28 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: is VS2017 ok to use to compile OD 21.3+
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5122
Re: is VS2017 ok to use to compile OD 21.3+
Various versions of VS2019. It doesn't seem to matter. Some engineers keep it up to date and others don't. I have 3 computers, but at the computer I'm currently sitting at, it seems to be version 16.11.5. It's probably different on my others.
Local API
Local API is complete. It will be part of version 22.1. This lets you send API messages directly to the local running instance of OpenDental.exe on port 30222. Because it's local instead of going through our HQ servers, it's blazing fast. We do quickly plan to add the eConnector port 30223 as a thir...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:22 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: is VS2017 ok to use to compile OD 21.3+
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5122
Re: is VS2017 ok to use to compile OD 21.3+
I'm not sure. We use VS2019. It might work.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:48 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5454
Re: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
How many offices are we talking about? That's a lot of work for just one office.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:35 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5454
Re: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
You developed a plug-in in-house for your own use and you are not distributing it to others? And you are inserting PayPlanCharges? That's interesting. I can't quite figure out why you are doing that, but I can still talk about it. We would encourage you to use the API. This would be especially impor...
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:39 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
I still don't understand. A windows filename cannot be "cleared". Every file has to have a name. Maybe you mean the document.Description gets cleared. We'll try to duplicate.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:36 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5454
Re: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
The part of our website that you quoted is not about plugins. There are two different ways that 3rd parties can currently make changes to our db: 1. Plugins, the topic of this thread. 2. Queries, which is what you quoted from our website. Yes, they are related, and the warning timeline might be simi...
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:54 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Uncropping and recropping should always fix it. If not, that seems like a completely unrelated bug. I'll set someone on trying to duplicate that issue.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:50 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Shifting from a plugin to web services
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4427
Re: Shifting from a plugin to web services
Our current plan is to not deprecate plug-ins for international customers so that the Mopensoft plugin and other similar plugins will continue to work. Our eServices are tailored to the US, and each country is different.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:48 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
What do you mean by "it changes his name"? File name? Patient name? Description?
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:44 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
- Replies: 56
- Views: 114861
Re: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
The retake button is only present in the middle of a sequence. If you are retaking after completing the sequence, then you would manually unmount the one you were interested in, then recapture. At least for now. I'll begin considering the workflow for a retake after finishing a series.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5454
Re: Plugin users - Pop up warnings as of Open Dental v 21.4
No, there will absolutely be no interruption of any plugin with version 21.4. All plugins are whitelisted. In fact, we also made the decision to let international users continue to use plugins moving forward, regardless of our decision to phase them out in the US. International customers don't have ...
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
I'm very sorry about that. We released a "fix" a week ago, but then realized that the fix was also buggy. We are releasing the real fix in the next few minutes, version 21.4.20. You will want to update to that immediately. Any images that you viewed while using 21.4.17, and which looked bad can no l...
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
- Replies: 56
- Views: 114861
Re: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
I thought we added a retake button to 21.4, but it is admittedly mediocre. It got reworked slightly in version 22.1. I can't figure out how to make it completely "automatic". I mean you have to tell the software somehow that this is a retake and not the next one in the series. We got it down to 2 cl...
Re: Events
We are making good progress on Events. One fundamental problem that I still can't quite figure out is that databases don't inherently generate events that are consumable externally. That means we will still need to poll the db at a certain interval in order to generate database events. But I think w...
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:45 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: ShoryQuery Syntax Question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5639
Re: ShoryQuery Syntax Question
We should improve this message to indicate that it's likely a version issue. We might even be able to get fancy about it and check the required version for each API method.
Events
Our current API has no events. It has come to my attention that various 3rd parties depend heavily on events for their functionality. So far, I'm aware of two strategies: 1. MySQL triggers added to the db. When a trigger fires, this runs a query or multiple queries. 2. Plug-in that responds to certa...
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:14 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13766
Re: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
>In addition, OD is planning on charging the developer and the dental office for reading and writing this data.
Not quite. No charge to anyone for reading. If writing, there will be a very small charge to the developer, not to the dental office.
Not quite. No charge to anyone for reading. If writing, there will be a very small charge to the developer, not to the dental office.
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:56 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Database Integrity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8835
Re: Database Integrity
We are constantly making improvements to this area. I expect the false positives to go away within a week or two in the beta. You would need to update the beta to see the changes.
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:41 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11866
Re: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error
It's giving them to you in batches of 100 at a time, right? Because there's a hard limit of 100. So are you saying it's 1 minute for each request?
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Free Open Dental Imaging - "Acquire" Xrays in OD, and Sensor Setup instructions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7193
Re: Free Open Dental Imaging - "Acquire" Xrays in OD, and Sensor Setup instructions
We were going to build a separate Imaging module that we would charge separately for. Then Apteryx took a nose dive and Covid hit. I decided that dentists couldn't really afford to pay separately for this, so we just rolled it all into the main program. As part of that compromise, I decided that the...
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:11 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13766
Re: When does Open Dental anticipate plugins to be deprecated?
It's a gradual process that requires constant feedback and adjustment. So it really is impossible to say. The current plan is to start with subtle warnings that don't actually interfere with functionality. The other part of this is that we don't want people to be afraid to update versions of Open De...
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:42 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Communication, SMS Text messaging API
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2475
Re: Communication, SMS Text messaging API
I don't think there should be an API method that a 3rd party could call that would cause Open Dental to send an SMS. On the other hand, the API could be used by a 3rd party to get information like cell number, and then to also make an entry into the Db that the text was sent. The 3rd party would do ...
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:51 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Are there patient GUID's?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4067
Re: Are there patient GUID's?
Just PatNum. No GUIDs.
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
The issue with cropping is a bug that I thought would be fixed by now. We should be very close. We never alter the raw image. All brightness, contrast, text, cropping, etc is always just applied as a filter when viewing. This means it's always 100% reversible. Fortunately, we are able to apply these...
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:34 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Request
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9198
Re: API Request
Another user had requested 10 items just before you, so we're still plowing through those. I moved #7 to the top of your group and we'll try to get to it right away.
- Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:21 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Releases stopped being posted and developer emails stopped
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5049
LAN-API
We're going to start working on a LAN-API. This would avoid the round trip of the API call to our HQ, and your app would instead talk to the eConnector that's already running on the dental office server. This would be faster, and it would also remain running if the internet went down. The message fo...
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:24 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Releases stopped being posted and developer emails stopped
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5049
Re: Releases stopped being posted and developer emails stopped
We switched to GIT! The new GIT repository is not public, so our plan is to push copies to a public GIT repository on github. We have not started doing that because nobody was clamoring for it.
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:15 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Database Integrity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8835
Re: Database Integrity
We will write the APIs that you need. I don't think Flex has asked for any yet, but we've been adding new methods quickly as requests come in.
- Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:34 am
- Forum: Sharing
- Topic: SMS Texting with Diafaan in Open Dental $89/year
- Replies: 2
- Views: 28911
Re: SMS Texting with Diafaan in Open Dental
Probably don't. We're deprecating plugins. They are far too dangerous and are causing database corruption. I'm not saying that this plugin is causing database corruption, but I'm explaining why we are deprecating plugins in general. What can Mopensoft do? The plugin should instead be an exe. The but...
- Sat Jan 08, 2022 6:45 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
>So the concept of using Apteryx within OD has been working wonderfully...
I think you meant to say Scan-X, not Apteryx, right?
What specific version are you using?
I think you meant to say Scan-X, not Apteryx, right?
What specific version are you using?
- Sat Jan 08, 2022 6:42 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Getting The Allowed Column In Treatment Plan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8020
Re: Getting The Allowed Column In Treatment Plan
Would BaseEst be close enough? It does already have percentages applied. Notice that in the description of AllowedOverride, ComputeBaseEst is the function where the allowed fee is calculated. BaseEst is very close to allowed fee.
- Sat Jan 08, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: Send Mail Via Token-The host does not support SSL connections
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5260
Re: Send Mail Via Token-The host does not support SSL connections
Notice in line 482 that this method does an insert to the db. That's not allowed. You cannot ever call a method in Open Dental which alters the database (which means most methods). I'm unclear how you are "referencing" Open Dental, but we have been working hard lately to block all such action. Even ...
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:19 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Your first issue is a bug that we are now working on.
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:03 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
- Replies: 56
- Views: 114861
Re: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
Those are both great suggestions and have been added to the top of the priority list in:
https://www.opendental.com/site/imaging ... ments.html
https://www.opendental.com/site/imaging ... ments.html
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:49 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Request
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9198
Re: API Request
5. I did think of a way, but it won't be easy. We've been toying with the idea of a "local API" for certain things. Instead of sending an API command to our server, you would send it directly to the local running copy of OD by using local port. OD would act as a web server and respond to your API re...
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:27 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Request
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9198
Re: API Request
We've added all of this to our todo list, and it should be done relatively shortly.
- Tue Jan 04, 2022 9:22 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Request
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9198
Re: API Request
5. There has to be some way to identify which dental office you are interacting with. The way we came up with is that you create your customer key, and then you paste that into the UI on the customer's end. I can't think of any way to reduce the number of steps, which is what you seem to be trying t...
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:07 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: API change log
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2957
Re: API change log
The idea is to not "change" anything, but instead to add to it. We indicate the version that each method was added.
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:13 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Patient database missing on a workstation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2413
Re: Patient database missing on a workstation
Your database is on your server, not on your workstation. When you open Open Dental, you always connect to that database. So you must have simply connected to the wrong database, probably another one on your server. Go to a workstation that's working, and see which database you are connected to. Tha...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 6:25 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
>Also, as a side question, what would be your recommendation to discover new/changed appointments via read API in an efficient way?
Appointments GET (multiple). Specify a DateTStamp with your call so that you are only getting the new/changed ones.
Appointments GET (multiple). Specify a DateTStamp with your call so that you are only getting the new/changed ones.
- Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
We provide a conversion service. It involves an export from Apteryx followed by in import into Open Dental.
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:42 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
My understanding is that digital panos are easy. That's just a single image.
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:39 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: New APIs Needed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6325
Re: New APIs Needed
#2: There are certain fields that it would not make sense to be able to edit. For example, patplan.PatNum and patplan.InsSubNum. Instead of changing these two fields, you would either POST PatPlans or DELETE PatPlans. The rest of the fields make sense. #3: Similar issue as above with claim.PlanNum, ...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:02 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
This area is developing so quickly that the feature request system is really too slow to keep track of it. I'm tracking it all here: https://www.opendental.com/site/imagingimprovements.html I just haven't had a chance to work in your new suggestions, but they are great. So if the rapid progress slow...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:32 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Thank you so much for all the great feedback. We will work hard to make this smoother. Most of the complaints will need to be added as new features, but one of them is already done: Exporting single images from a mount is better in 21.4. 21.4 also has a lot of other improvements that are unrelated t...
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:35 am
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: The host does not support SSL connections
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5012
Re: The host does not support SSL connections
You should use our API. Direct inserts to the database are not allowed. If you are using a built-in method, then I'm guessing you're using a plug-in. Plug-ins will fail to load in version 21.4 unless they are white listed, and staying white listed will become harder over time. We would probably not ...
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:32 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: CDT Codes on different version
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6259
Re: CDT Codes on different version
We usually backport to the stable version. I think the new codes are inserted during the version update. So, we'll at least backport to 21.3. If we don't backport to 21.1, you can add any important code manually.
- Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:07 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6719
Re: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
Our autocodes do not support one of the conditions resulting in no code. Each condition has to have a code. So your scenario is just a little too complicated for the autocode logic at this point. But as I went through the clicks, you're really only looking at 2 additional clicks.
- Sat Nov 20, 2021 7:12 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6719
Re: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
#3 doesn't belong in the autocode. An autocode is for a set of mutually exclusive criteria. A tooth can be a pontic OR a retainer, and there's one autocode to make that decision. It looks like BU would need to be entered as a separate step. I think what's going on here, and why I didn't catch on soo...
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Global Lock
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3225
Re: Global Lock
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- Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:05 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: USB Camera (MD740) with Open Dental
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4008
Re: USB Camera (MD740) with Open Dental
We tested on a PD740, which looks pretty much the same as your MD740 and is probably the same hardware inside. Our camera came with driver software that will generate a keyboard button press when the Capture button is pressed. There's a link to the software in our manual. https://www.opendental.com/...
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: USB Camera (MD740) with Open Dental
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4008
Re: USB Camera (MD740) with Open Dental
Do you mean the live video is laggy or that the single image capture is laggy?
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 6:58 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6719
Re: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
Your autocodes really should already be set up. You can reset them to defaults using Procedure Code Tools. The main reason we allow editing of autocodes is for foreign users who use different coding systems. Keeping that in mind, there's one autocode for pontic vs. retainer. It would have nothing to...
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:41 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6719
Re: Procedure Button in Chart Module for 3 Unit Bridge
There should already be a button for bridge. The basic idea is that you set up the button to have the AutoCode for bridge. That assumes that the autocode is set up properly. So then, you go check out the autocode that you used. It should have two procedures in it: one for pontic and another for reta...
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:55 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Support has been added for the ScanX. It will be a few days until these changes make their way into version 21.3, and they can't be backported further than that.
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:08 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: PriProv field is 0 in GET Patients & GET Patients/{patientNumber} API
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5499
Re: PriProv field is 0 in GET Patients & GET Patients/{patientNumber} API
Probably done by the end of today, and then we release about twice a week. It will be backported to 21.3.
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:15 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
ScanX machine has arrived, so we've begun troubleshooting.
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: ThreatLocker
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4704
Re: ThreatLocker
Let's talk for a moment about how whitelisting works when using Windows Security Policy instead of ThreatLocker. In Windows, you can specify a path, a certificate, or a hash. Both path and certificate would allow Open Dental to run, and only the hash would block our updates. I tried to look for some...
- Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:09 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Sorry about the hassle.
- Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:49 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Someone successfully used ScanX by using their VistaEasy software. http://opendentalsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5903 I downloaded VistaEasy and can't get it to work, but that's probably because I don't have a ScanX device connected. I ordered a ScanX on eBay, but that will take a little while to ...
- Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
- Replies: 50
- Views: 40282
Re: Scan-X with new integrated x-ray feature
Our assumption with the ScanX was that it could dump all your images to a folder instead of using Twain. That's why we built the "Import Automatically" feature. Does ScanX not let you do that? If it's using Twain, then it's going to want to send a series of image, which Open Dental can't handle. We ...
- Wed Nov 10, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: color procedure changes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5417
Re: color procedure changes
https://www.opendental.com/manual/defin ... olors.html
I would recommend nice dark colors for both planned and completed because text looks better when dark. But you can choose your colors.
I would recommend nice dark colors for both planned and completed because text looks better when dark. But you can choose your colors.
- Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:43 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: API Features Requested
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17150
Re: API Features Requested
So I think that's all of them.
- Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:40 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Customer API Key
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6519
Re: Customer API Key
We're still trying to find a place in the db to put this info. I think it will probably need a new table. We'll talk about it again tomorrow to try to finalize.
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:47 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Customer API Key
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6519
Re: Customer API Key
We talked about it. The key is available in our UI, but not in our database. To show in our UI, it makes a call to our HQ server. For now, you would need to store your own config information using any normal method that you wish, including registry, ini file, xml file, database, web method, etc. We ...
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 6:34 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Imaging Improvements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5045
Re: Imaging Improvements
In Open Dental, we never alter the original image. We apply crop, rotation, contrast, etc. as a programmatic "filter". So the original images will not be changed. With this version, a conversion needs to be applied to the database in order for the old filter strategy to be converted to the new more-...
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 1:28 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Imaging Improvements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5045
Re: Imaging Improvements
It's some matrices, some geometry, and lots of head scratching. We used to crop, then rotate/flip. Now, we have to rotate/flip before we crop. So that gives a totally different result. That's fine, but what do we do about all the existing crop-rotates? They must all be converted. We need eight conve...
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:19 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Database Integrity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8835
Database Integrity
We have started implementing our Database Integrity features:
https://www.opendental.com/site/integrity.html
There will be a few irritated users, but we have to rip that Band-Aid off. We have too much database corruption.
https://www.opendental.com/site/integrity.html
There will be a few irritated users, but we have to rip that Band-Aid off. We have too much database corruption.
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Writing data to database
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11985
Re: Writing data to database
Plug-ins must now be whitelisted in order to work.
https://www.opendental.com/site/pluginwhitelisting.html
https://www.opendental.com/site/pluginwhitelisting.html
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:24 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Imaging Improvements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5045
Imaging Improvements
https://www.opendental.com/site/imaging ... ments.html
Rotations are being enhanced. Lots of crazy math...
Rotations are being enhanced. Lots of crazy math...
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:23 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Customer API Key
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6519
Re: Customer API Key
I think that sounds about right. But I never really thought about different clients. The way I envisioned this being used was from a database driven server at the HQ of the third party using the API. It sounds like you will be calling the API from software running directly on the customer machine. D...
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:14 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
- Replies: 56
- Views: 114861
Re: Radiographs and Intraoral Cameras
From https://www.opendental.com/manual/senso ... ility.html
Make sure you have the box checked to show Twain UI. And RESTART Open Dental after you check it. It's designed to only need to click Capture once.
Make sure you have the box checked to show Twain UI. And RESTART Open Dental after you check it. It's designed to only need to click Capture once.
- Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:49 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
The unmounted feature is complete.
- Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Using artificial intelligence in dentistry
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23358
Re: Using artificial intelligence in dentistry
I looked at their website. I honestly don't see the point. There are thousands of cool things that I would love to add to Open Dental. The stuff I saw there did not excite me by comparison. I don't think they have reached out to us, but it would be very easy for them to mine our database for any cus...
- Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Remote from Laptop (for hospital/operating room use)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3814
Re: Remote from Laptop (for hospital/operating room use)
You can install Open Dental onto that laptop. Install MySQL, demo database, etc. Maybe don't try to get your actual database onto that laptop. Now, you want to take radiographs for John Smith. Create a dummy patient John Smith on the database that's on the laptop. Use your sensor and phosphor plates...
- Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:26 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
An unmounted area is being built. It's going pretty well. Looks like it should work fine.
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:33 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Cancelling appointments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11709
Re: Cancelling appointments
This also handles my situation #3 above, which I think will be by far the most common use of this method. So no fee charged for breaking the appointment, and the appointment goes to the unscheduled list where it can easily be found for later rescheduling.
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 3:49 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
So we need a feature to let people change the planned order right before they start. Right now, we assume that everyone can use the same order. It's currently customizable, but only one sequence for the whole office.
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:07 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
>Many of my assistants will take one x-ray, then rotate and reposition it on the mount
Why on earth would they need to rotate? Rotate is supposed to be automatic.
Why on earth would they need to rotate? Rotate is supposed to be automatic.
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:12 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Free eServices when you are on Customer Support
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3540
Re: Free eServices when you are on Customer Support
That post was from a customer, not from a representative of Open Dental.
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:11 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental Employee Training $50/hr and YouTube webinars
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3601
Re: Open Dental Employee Training $50/hr and YouTube webinars
That post was from a customer, not from a representative of Open Dental.
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:09 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
Clearly, an "unmounted" section is a good solution. I'm going to take your hint and describe a workflow for us to pursue. Let's say you are in position 3 of 18, and you just took a bad radiograph. Ideally, you would want a single button click that would move that bad radiograph down to the unmounted...
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:08 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Re: Acquire series
The bug is fixed. It only affected the beta 21.3.
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:28 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Acquire series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7992
Acquire series
This comment was from another topic: "...there are some feature that's not available such as... being able to go back to redo previous capture automatically (we have to quit the on-going capture and delete image first)" I've been thinking about that for quite a few days. Originally, I thought it mig...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:39 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Apteryx
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27405
Re: Apteryx
Yes, we convert from Apteryx, and the files end up in the normal A-Z folder in Open Dental.
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Apteryx
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27405
Re: Apteryx
I don't see Tuxedo on the list of sensors that users have reported as working successfully. But so far nobody has run across a sensor that won't work. What imaging software are you converting from?
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:00 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Apteryx
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27405
Re: Apteryx
I would focus on the update to the newer version first. Once you get that settled and running smoothly, you would talk to the conversions department. Yes, you could technically do all of that this morning. But you'd be on the phone for a while, and it would probably involve a remote connection to lo...
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:33 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Apteryx
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27405
Re: Apteryx
1. Until we get that, you could do retakes in a second run, after you were all done with the rest of the capture. 2. Thumbnails just got done. They will be in version 21.4. We tried very hard to implement the native XDR, but it dragged on for months with diminishing returns. So we will come back to ...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9711
Re: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
As an aside, we do now have popouts and measurements done, so we're whittling down that list. But for the main issue of 12 bit vs 8 bit: 8 bit results in 256 shades of gray, which is surprisingly few. In spite of your monitor being able to display millions of colors, it can only display 256 shades o...
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Slow response time with loading Mounts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9322
Re: Slow response time with loading Mounts
There should be no difference at all between performance of MariaDb and MySQL. I found the problem. There's no key in the document table for MountItemNum. So it loads up the mount blazing fast, but then it takes time for it to find the documents that belong on the mount. Sorry about that. I just pos...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:43 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9711
Re: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
I think we've tried scripting it. This would work by simulating a user clicking on things. I think it breaks after a while for various reasons, so it becomes impractical. The real problem is that they encrypted the files. We can convert from many other kinds of imaging software.
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:54 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Information blocking rule
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4764
Re: Information blocking rule
Good point. I think we will be adding a button that lets you push a CCD to the patient portal upon request. That can be digitally imported by another office. We already generate CCDs, but it's just a matter of making them available at the right time.
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:19 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Cancelling appointments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11709
Re: Cancelling appointments
https://www.opendental.com/manual/apptbreak.html There are 3 reasons to break an appointment: 1. Missed, no show 2. Less than 24 hrs notice 3. Plenty of notice. The first 2 get procedure codes entered because you generally want to charge the patient. The third one isn't really what I would think of ...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:11 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9711
Re: Does abandoning Patterson imaging mean I have to abandon Open Dental?
I'm not sure such a thing exists at any price. But since cost doesn't seem to be a major factor, can't you just sit a new employee down for a few months and have them manually move images over with export/import? That would cost about $10k. We've thought about doing something along those lines as a ...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:27 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Information blocking rule
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4764
Re: Information blocking rule
Information Blocking isn't something we would work on. It's something we would work to avoid.
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:11 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Slow response time with loading Mounts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9322
Re: Slow response time with loading Mounts
Looks like that fix was released on 9/21.
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Apteryx
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27405
Re: Apteryx
Start by updating Open Dental to 21.2.
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Witing list in OD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3963
Re: Witing list in OD
It's called the ASAP list.