Set Up User Defined Fields

Use the User Defined Fields table to set up the captions, or names, of unique fields available in several types of records, including fields in your Patient and Responsible Party records, your Employer, Assistant, and Insurance tables, your Office Contacts list, and your patient identification fields.

How to Get Here

• ViewPoint main menu > System Tables > System > User Defined Fields.

   

  

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Choose Your Settings

• Edit descriptions - Click in the field you want to modify and type your changes, or cut, copy and paste text as needed.

• Patient / res. party user def 1 - These fields appear on the patient information panel, and the responsible party page of a patient folder, respectively. They require that you select a response from the Patient Custom List or the Res. Party Custom List editors.

• Patient / res. party user def text - These fields also appear on the patient information panel, and the responsible party page of a patient folder, respectively. You can type your text, including Internet hyperlinks, into these fields as needed.

• Table -specific fields - The captions you enter in these fields appear in their respective table . Note that certain user-defined fields require a date, while others accept any text.

• Save your changes - Click Close to save the changes you have made and close the editing window.

Notice!

• Use these fields - When you open the associated table or record, you will see these settings as your field captions.

   

  

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• Hyperlinks supported - ViewPoint user-defined fields support Internet hyperlinks: You may type Internet web site addresses, or e-mail addresses into these fields, then double-click the field to follow the hyperlink.

• Patient / responsible party custom lists - Use the Patient Custom List and Responsible Party Custom List table to create the lists to use with the "Custom" fields in the patient folder.

Notice!

• Alternate set up - You may also set up the patient identification labels, the patient custom fields, and the responsible party custom fields with the Patient Folder Captions tab of your Patient Folder Properties utility. See "Set Up Patient Folder Captions" for details.

• Professional record user defined fields - Use the Professional Type table to set up the custom field captions for your professional records. See "Set Up Professional Types" for details.

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