rdhingra wrote on Wednesday, April 14, 2010:
Does OpenEMR have a collection of LBF for different specialties? Or do I have to create the forms for every specialty?
Rema
tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, April 14, 2010:
LBF is so new that no contributions have been made for forms in that model. Anything you do would be nice to share.
-Tony
penguin8r wrote on Tuesday, May 18, 2010:
Speaking of, is there a certain procedure for sharing or exporting Layout Based Forms?
The only way I can see is to manually export the relevant entries from the layout_forms table & then manually import them into another OpenEMR database? Correct me if I’m wrong on this…
ytiddo wrote on Wednesday, May 19, 2010:
The need to have interchangeable forms that are separate from Openemr is part of why i created the xml based form generator. In an ideal world, we would have had the time to merge this approach with the layout based forms, so that the layout engine gets an ‘export as xml’ and ‘import xml’ functionality.
Unfortunately, the form generator is still in the tracker, awaiting someone who is willing to review XSLT/XML, and copious time has not been on anyone’s hands…
tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, May 19, 2010:
We are likely to gain some experience in XLST/XML as part of the Meaningful use CCR/CDD code that is also in the pipe. So … maybe with that, it won’t be so daunting a task ? I hope they use the same libraries for XML parsing etc …
Perhaps you could help with that review process?
-Tony
sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, May 19, 2010:
There is an experimental tool for exporting and importing configuration data, of which “Layouts” may be chosen as a subset. You can see this by setting “$GLOBALS{‘configuration_import_export’} = true;” in globals.php. It’s part of the Administration -> Backup page.
Currently this would export or import *all* layout data, not individual forms; but (thinking as a developer) it would be a good starting point to create a tool such as you request, and that would not be very difficult.