Re: [Hardhats-members] Direct changes to ^DD

[Greg Kreis]

steven mcphelan wrote: Personally, no. Potentially, yes. I had written class III software for the PATIENT file that required a pseudo-identifier. Several other VAMCs wanted to install the program. I did not give them an installation routine that would have set up the ^DD(2,0,"ID") node. Instead I gave them instructions on how to set that node. Not knowing the skill level of the people at the site, I chose to use a namespaced node which I knew would not exist at their site. If I had instructed them to use W1,W2,W3,... I had no assurance that the site did not already have such a node defined. So it was much much easier to provide instructions for a namespaced node. I believe using namespaced nodes is more in the spirit of the VA DBA rules. Interesting approach! There is one caveat to this whole thing. Fileman just $O() through the ^DD(file,0,"ID") nodes. So if you must have a node that is executed before another ID node, then you need to name that node accordingly. I would think that these would be a nice enhancements to Fileman. 1. Have the identifier utility option allow for the adding/editing of these no field# specific ID nodes. Then no one has to worry about which ID subscript to use. 2. Allow for declaring execution order for the various ID nodes. I may not want the identifiers to display in order based upon their field number. I agree.  Good suggestions. Also, FWIW, we can use VPE's ..VGL QWIK to edit nodes in a DD (either the data in the node or a subscript of a node).  The options while in a VGL listing are EV and ES, repectively. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Direct changes to ^DD Actually, you can have more than one -- or certainly it should. The subscript below "ID" doesn't have to be "WRITE". You can have "W1" or "W2", etc. (the 'W' is a convention). Have you run into problems here? --- steven mcphelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If it is your own file that is should not be a problem. But then it only allows for a single "pseudo-identifier" node. On a file other than your own, you can clash with other packages that might want to add "pseudo-identifiers". The PATIENT file itself has multiple "pseudo-identifiers". ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Greg Kreis http://www.PioneerDataSys.com "You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." (James Lane Allen)