Look and feel

Day-to-Day Users
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macmend wrote on Thursday, May 21, 2009:

I have recently undertaken IT support management for our healthcare business in the UK.

I have investigated a number of EMRs and for ease of installation and modules offfered Open EMR is unbeatable.

However I am used to products like XOOPs ( I see the OpenEMR website is built with XOOPS CMS) Wordpress or CRMs like Vtiger.

Whilst I can see the technical excellence in OpenEMR, I am concerned at its look and feel and how are staff will get used to it.

XOOPS, and many other CMS, CRMs and other modular based perl/php and java based web portals and applications use themes and styles to ensure the right look and feel.  It makes a product so much more accessible.

I would love to be able to contribute, I know a little programming and CSS etc.  But can anyone point me to where these can be changed or is there something within the setup that would help.

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cfapress wrote on Friday, May 22, 2009:

OpenEMR is chock full of great features but sometimes the interface can get in the way. Some of the system can be controlled with CSS and the theme files in <oemr>/interface/themes. I suggest editing your globals.php and changing to the style_oemr.css theme.

Elements not controlled by that style sheet are hard-coded in the PHP files. It’s a time consuming hunt to find the right file and style to change.

Plan to spend a few solid hours of looking at pages in a browser and then looking at the code behind them. It will make you very familiar with the code and, at the same time, you will become a better support person for OpenEMR.

It’s worth the time invested.

Jason