Editing the "Edit Issues" form

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rdh61 wrote on Friday, August 20, 2010:

Hi,

I wish to add a text area field called “Additional Information” to the “Edit Issues” form. Can this be done and if so, could somebody please post instructions?

Many thanks.

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visolveemr wrote on Friday, August 20, 2010:

Hi,

Adding a text area field to “Edit issues” screen doesn’t require more effort. Please add a field to the table “lists” so that the information you are entering in the “Additional Information” field will get stored. Then, customize the file “Openemr/interface/patient_file/summary/add_edit_issue.php”.
Define the field and provide the field name in ‘update’ and ‘insert’ queries.

Please let us know for any further help.

Thanks,
Vicareplus Team,
services@vicareplus.com

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rdh61 wrote on Thursday, August 26, 2010:

Thanks. I am not familiar with these scripts. However, looking at the add_edit_issue.php file, I realised there is already the field I want included in the script. It is called “Comments” but by default it is not displayed in the form. By trial and error I found that by changing the following line:

document.getElementById(‘row_comments’      ).style.display = (f.form_comments.value  ) ? ‘’ : revdisp;

to:

document.getElementById(‘row_comments’      ).style.display = (f.form_comments.value  ) ? ‘’ : comdisp;

the field is displayed.