Difference between revisions of "Note about Input Templates"

Latest revision as of 10:59, 5 March 2012

Kevin Toppenberg:

I put this because I always forget how to do this...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
--- "Holloway, Thomas (EDS)"
<Thomas.Holloway@med.va.gov> wrote:

> Kevin,
>    As already noted, the functionality exists pretty much as you have
> described it.  Below is a screen capture of a similar scenario.  Assume
> that all Integrated Billing options associated with a menu need to be
> placed out of order while an update is being performed.   The following
> sequence searches the Option file for the desired options and stores
> them in a Sort Template called "IB MENU OPTIONS" which is then used in
> the Enter/Edit function to stuff an Out of Order message in all of them.
> I have truncated the example to just 5 entries for brevity.  Note the
> use of the 3-slash stuff at the 'Edit Which Field' Prompt, the use of
> '^LOOP' at Select OPTION NAME, and the open and close brackets around
> the template name at the 'EDIT ENTRIES BY:" Prompt.  The trick is
> learning when and where you can use the [template name] functionality.
> 
> 
> Select OPTION: SEARCH FILE ENTRIES  
> 
> OUTPUT FROM WHAT FILE: OPTION// 
> 
>   -A- SEARCH FOR OPTION FIELD: .01  NAME
>   -A- CONDITION: MATCHES  
>   -A- MATCHES: 1"IB".E
> 
>   -B- SEARCH FOR OPTION FIELD: TYPE  
>   -B- CONDITION: =  EQUALS
>   -B- EQUALS: menu
> 
>   -C- SEARCH FOR OPTION FIELD: 
> 
> IF: A&B    NAME MATCHES 1"IB".E    and TYPE EQUALS
> "M" (menu)
> OR: 
>  
> STORE RESULTS OF SEARCH IN TEMPLATE: IB MENU OPTIONS
>   Are you adding 'IB MENU OPTIONS' as a new SORT
> TEMPLATE? No// Y  (Yes)
> DESCRIPTION:
>   1>This Sort Template contains all IB options where
> Type = Menu.
>   2>
> EDIT Option: 
> 
> SORT BY: NAME// 
> START WITH NAME: FIRST// 
> FIRST PRINT FIELD: .01  NAME
> THEN PRINT FIELD: 
> Heading (S/C): OPTION SEARCH// 
> DEVICE:   IP network
> OPTION SEARCH                                  MAR 
> 8,2005  09:52
> PAGE 1
> NAME
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> IB BILLING CLERK MENU
> IB BILLING SUPERVISOR MENU
> IB MANAGER MENU
> IB Means Test MENU
> IB MRA MENU
> 
> 
> 
>                          5 MATCHES FOUND.
> 
> 
> 
> Select OPTION: ENTER OR EDIT FILE ENTRIES  
> 
> 
> 
> INPUT TO WHAT FILE: OPTION// 
> EDIT WHICH FIELD: ALL// 2///OPTION TEMPORARILY OUT
> OF ORDER  OUT OF ORDER MESSAGE
> THEN EDIT FIELD: 
> 
> 
> Select OPTION NAME: ^LOOP
> EDIT ENTRIES BY: NAME// [IB MENU OPTIONS]      
>                               (Mar 08, 2005@09:51)
> User #8800 File #19
> SEARCH 
>  
>   WITHIN 'IB MENU OPTIONS' NUMBER, EDIT ENTRIES BY: 
>  
>    IB BILLING SUPERVISOR MENU     Billing Supervisor Menu
> 
>    IB BILLING CLERK MENU     Billing Clerk's Menu
> 
>     IB MANAGER MENU     Integrated Billing Master Menu
> 
>    IB Means Test MENU     Automated Means Test Billing Menu
> 
>    IB MRA MENU     Medicare Remittance Advice Menu
> 
>     LOOP ENDED!
> 
> 
> Select OPTION NAME: 
> 
> 
>