sea1956 wrote on Friday, April 03, 2015:
Hello everybody,
I need an Iranian calendar to be replaced with the present calendar of OpenEMR. Would you please let me know if it is available right now? We need to schedule patients based onthe Iranian calendar.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
Syrous
fsgl wrote on Friday, April 03, 2015:
There is no Contributor in Iran, nor the Middle East.
Persian Calendar is available on the Desktop, but will require customization for appointments in OpenEMR.
sea1956 wrote on Friday, April 03, 2015:
Thanks for your reply. Can anybody help me customize the calendar into persian calendar?
visolveemr wrote on Friday, April 03, 2015:
Hi Syrous,
Greetings from ViSolve Inc! We are interested to work with you to accomplish your technical requirements.
Please email "services@visolve.com" and we can discuss more.
Thanks,
ViSolve OpenEMR Team
www.visolve.com
fsgl wrote on Friday, April 03, 2015:
Our colleagues are located in Tamil Nadu & Kerala (India).
Perhaps a programmer there speaks Urdu, which is a lot closer to Persian than American English.
Best of luck.
sea1956 wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Dear fsgl,
Would you please provide me with the email address of your colleagues in Tamil & Kerala.
Thanks
Syrous Etezadi
yehster wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
ViSolve (services@visolve.com) are the colleagues in Tamil and Kerala.
asalr wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Let me know exactly what u want? as i am Iranian and located in Bangalore
fsgl wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
The other Certified Contributors are CapMinds Private Ltd. in Tamil Nadu, pandi.param@capminds.com & Z&H Consultancy Services (Pvt) Ltd. in Kerala, sam@zhservices.com .
asalr wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Regarding this post (Perhaps a programmer there speaks Urdu, which is a lot closer to Persian than American English.) Persian is not at all Urdu and the person know Urdu can not help you for communicate with Persian stuff.
mdsupport wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Syrous, Be aware that most I18N problems start small and expand exponentially as you run through the complete process. Since we do not know your budget and final objectives, general approach you should consider is exploring interface to commonly used standalone scheduling programs in Iran. Luckily, scheduling function has perhaps only 2-4 integration points with the core package. After few months of operation you could embark on journey to extending this package for out-of-box use in Iran.
fsgl wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
We understand that Urdu, the national language of Pakistan & also spoken in Northern India, is not Persian.
The point of the post is that Urdu lexically is closer to Persian than the English we speak in the U.S.
Historically, during the reign of the Mughal Emperors (1526-1857), Persian was the official language of India & Pakistan.
Indians spoke Persian from the 16th century onward in their public interactions, but less so from the time of the British Raj.
A very important consideration in the choice of support is whether the vendor has been certified as an OpenEMR professional support provider. Our three colleagues in Southern India are OpenEMR Certified Contributors.
Linguistic abilities do not trump OpenEMR competency.
Additionally, they have demonstrated good people skills which will be reassuring to the prospective client.
blankev wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Dear fsgl,
since Brady officially promoted you to be a DEVELOPER, it is time for you to explore the source code of:
http://www.iranchamber.com/calendar/converter/iranian_calendar_converter.php
and add the option to choose what Calender to be used.
Iranean <-> Gregorian <-> official Moslim (Hijri Shamsi) calendar.
This a new adventure! Translations can be done in Brady-translation-spreadsheet 
fsgl wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Pimm,
I’m certain that Syrous (wonderful expression of parental approval) would much prefer to have the Malayali/Tamil developers undertake the task.
Never spoke Persian in any of my reincarnations.
blankev wrote on Tuesday, April 07, 2015:
Dear fsgl,
this has nothing to do with speaking. It is coding needed in the Calendar. And making this new option for Calendar choice in Globals.
The “Hijri Shamsi” calendar has also 12 month of 29-33 days, but is more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar, once in place, it works for a couple of thousand years. Longer than OpenEMR will remember your and my name. Not Solar powered but moon powered calendar. Is not related to the seasons. Most festivity and celebration dates have a different day every year compared to the static Gregorian calendar, it moves with the moon and has no accomplice in seasons.
IMHO the choice and words used for this calendar should be in English, to be translated through the Translation spreadsheet.
If you want it in URDU translation should be used for the URDU-OpenEMR language.
If you want it in Classic Persian the Classic Persian translation for language should be used.
fsgl wrote on Wednesday, April 08, 2015:
Thanks for the words of encouragement, however…
I’ve a sneaking suspicion that more will be required than tweaking Globals & Translations.
There is quite a bit of codes related to the Calendar.
An amateur, like yours truly, has been frightened off.
If there is enough time, effort should be directed to getting the ACL stuff into the codebase.
blueehs wrote on Wednesday, April 08, 2015:
Guys
They use Jalali Calendar in Persia(Iran). In fact we had an inquiry some time ago for adding the Jalali calendar, and we estimated the time to be about 40 to 50 hours.
Hijri is used in Saudi and other Arab states.
On some other observations seen here, I learned in college that Urdu is actually a mix of Persian and Hindi. Listening to Urdu is a great experience as it is a beautiful poetic language. It is said that the Indian Muslims are different than the Arabs because they came through the filter of Persia which was a much more civilized and secular civilization than the Arabs and Mongols( the word “Mughals” derived)
Shameem
blueehs wrote on Wednesday, April 08, 2015:
I am the one in Kerala and also in McLean, VA, ZH Healthcare. Contact me at sam@zhservices.com
sapiens110 wrote on Wednesday, April 22, 2015:
Dear Syrous,
We recently has done the exact above customization for a client in Iran along with lots of other customization. We would like to help you out in this matter as well. You can contact us at:
Regards
