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One question I have is regarding a brief chat I had with some other developers in one of our sister companies that has also done Open Dental integration. They told me they are using a direct object API integration, like an SDK, where they use Open Dental classes for both reading and writing to the database and that it covers, in their words, virtually everything. The question I have for that is, does that mean they're using a plugin they wrote or is there another integration point I'm missing? And, if it is a plugin, do plugins always have to be either embedded in the Open Dental UI or triggered from an action in the UI? Or can we have a console application that, for example, runs on a schedule that integrates with Open Dental through the plugins support?