Joseph Puthooran wrote: >Secondly I wonder what is the agenda of the exclusive OpenVistA >R&D coding worshops. Is it to address some of these issues that >were left out at the OpenVistA porting exercise?
The developer meetings that I have been involved with have been exclusive only in their orientation towards programming and detailed examination of the source code and data structures. I am not aware of any intention to exclude any persons from these meetings except by their own judgement of their own interests, abilities, and desire to participate. These separate meetings have often been very small with a half dozen individuals or so. The agendas have been rather free-form and flexible, depending on the interests of the persons attending. Porting issues were a significant part of earlier meetings, but were not in my awareness in recent meetings. The most recent meeting in Pittsburg was largely focused around integrating M2Web with VistA and general problem of providing a complete user interface for VistA beyond telnet. We spent some time looking at patient registration, web mail, VMACS menus, and a general analysis of the VistA source code aimed at the possibility of generating a mapping of inputs identified in the code to user interface elements. Most of the weekend was devoted to the code analysis or to adapting the VMACS web based menu system to the display of menus from the VistA Options file. The most visible result is that we can now see and navigate all of our assigned VistA menus on the web and that web enabled options, like the prototype patient registration can be accessed from the menu. I will put this up on the openforum web site when the server is restored. (David, I meant to bring this up at the meeting, but for the way the server used to be configured, CGI in user directories needs to be reenabled and I no longer have the password to do it myself.) VMACS menus are based on a similar Options file that actually predates the VistA Options file, so achieving this initial demonstration of functionality was relatively straight forward. I did not participate directly in the code analysis. These weekends generally leave me quite tired (and the others as well, I think) so that it takes a couple of weeks or more to recover. I hope that helps. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) --------------------------------------- M2Web Demonstration with VistA (http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/) (http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/m.cgi) --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
