Light Bar

Style- Choose to show patients in Location format, or Queue format.

Orientation - Select whether to show the seated patients horizontally (in a row), or vertically (in a column).

Chair - Select the chair to monitor. Although all chairs display in your light bar, the selected chair appears with yellow highlighting. (See Chair 2 in the example below.) Note that you can use hot-keys as well as right-clicking to update the appointment activity for the selected chair, as described below.

Office / Doctor - Select which office and / or doctor's patients to display, or include all patients that are flagged as seated in your On-Deck Operatory. The light bar uses the doctor and office assigned to the appointment, not those assigned to the patient folder.

Visual Queue Size - Enter the number of appointment spaces you want to reserve for display when viewing the light bar in queue format. Note that all seated patients appear in the light bar, even if that number exceeds the visual queue value. In our example below, the visual queue size is 5; so 5 spaces are always reserved. However, when more than 5 patients are seated, additional spaces are added to that doctor's section of the light bar.

Wait Threshold - Enter the number of minutes a patient can be in Doctor is Needed mode (described below) before the waiting time begins to flash in the light bar. The length of time a patient has been in Dr is Needed mode appears in the light bar. This number begins to flash when the wait threshold value is exceeded.

Show Information - Enable each type of information ( Patient Nickname, Patient Last Name, Procedure, Orthodontist, and Assistant) that you want included in the light bar display.

Single Doctor Queue Per Office - (Applies only when the Queue style is selected in your Light Bar.) Enable this option to separate patients in your Light Bar by the office assigned to the appointment. If this option is disabled, the Light Bar will separate patients by the doctor assigned to the appointment instead.

Show Queue Number on Left - Enable this option to show the doctor's queue number to the left of the patient information, rather than behind it.

Theme - Select a color scheme for your Light Bar: Silver, dark or light. If you have multiple light bars enabled, the same theme is applied to all of them.

Number of Light Bars - You can view up to four light bars simultaneously within the same widget. After you enable multiple light bars, you choose which one you want to configure when you first access the settings window. To set up a different light bar, exit and re-enter your settings. The example below shows three light bars.

Light Bar Colors - Use the color selectors to choose appointment milestone colors for your Light Bar widget: Seated, Dr. Needed, Dr. Needed High Priority, Dr. Here, and Dr. Was Here. Note that the color descriptions below refer to default colors, and may be different from your settings.

Colors - Each color indicates the patient's appointment status. If you changed your light bar colors in the settings window, described above, the color descriptions below may not match the colors you see in your light bar.

Appointment Time Remaining - The number of minutes scheduled for an appointment appears in the light bar. Once the end of the scheduled appointment time has passed, that number becomes negative and begins to flash, indicating the appointment is taking longer than anticipated.