The way proposed here by Craig has the disadvantage that it merely hides the bottom frame, without deactivating it. So, when you ask the application to show you the patient’s encounter history, you just won’t see it, as it will be assigned to the (hidden) bottom frame. We’ve found a much quicker way to hide the bottom frame by default. Here it is:
Go to the file /interface/main/left_nav.php
And modify the code as follows:
Kostantinos’ method is much cleaner than Craig’s as it uses the existing logic for toggling visibility, and it also means only one file has to be aware of the new $GLOBALS (left_nav.php) instead of two (main_screen.php).