Date on Copied Kiosk forms

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Sunshine23
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Date on Copied Kiosk forms

Post by Sunshine23 » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:45 am

So I really like the feature that open dental implemented to copy forms and then send them to the kiosk. This really helps with recall patients, they can simply review their old answers. The problem is that it is a static image, so the date does not change. Does anyone know if there is a way to date stamp a copy of a form sent to a kiosk?

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Re: Date on Copied Kiosk forms

Post by jsalmon » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:05 pm

When you mention the feature we implemented to copy forms and send them to the kiosk I instantly think of the Copy button within the "Patient Forms for X" window (which was implemented back in 2010).
http://www.opendental.com/manual/patientform.html
Sunshine23 wrote:The problem is that it is a static image, so the date does not change.
Open Dental cannot dynamically manipulate static images on sheets. You should not be using an image with a specific date on it so I recommend updating your static image.

However, I think you are trying to say that you have a Static Text field that says something like "Date: [dateToday]" and it gets translated to "Date: 03/27/2018" but when you make a copy of this sheet it stays as "Date: 03/27/2018" instead of updating to the current date (whatever date that might be). This is because Open Dental combs through those static text fields looking explicitly for [dateToday] in order to replace that with the dynamic date string. However, the copy of the sheet is preserving the data from the old sheet (thus no [dateToday] to replace). This is tricky and I'll have to think if there is an alternative way around it...
http://www.opendental.com/manual/sheetsstatictext.html
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Jason Salmon
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http://www.opendental.com

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Re: Date on Copied Kiosk forms

Post by jsalmon » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:13 pm

I just saw your feature request go through our system. I approved it and made a note on it as to what I think we need to change within Open Dental to get the desired functionality. I believe the feature request is the correct avenue for this particular issue. I cannot think of a witty way to get something like this to work at the present moment.
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