This is to announce that I have found and tried out an excellent replacement for the old popup calendar widget. Most importantly it solves the problem with IE where some form fields such as <select> lists were bleeding through. In addition the new widget is nicer and more versatile.
The license is LGPL. You can learn more about it at:
I won’t have time to get back to this for a week or two. If anyone is interested in similarly changing the remaining places in OpenEMR that use popup calendars, please leave a note here to avoid any duplicated effort.
Ron McDaniel had this to say about the date widget:
"""It would be nice if the button used for the date picker was also used on the "Billing View" to assist in choosing the date. It should be used throughout the program for consistency and to reduce user error. Just a thought."""
Seems like a good idea to me. Ron McDaniel describes himself as "IT Director for school system, consultant/engineer"
I agree with the date widget everywhere idea too. I think I tried to do it a while back and it was not the quick cut&paste job I thought it would be.
Regarding the billing page, what about filtering by patient id and/or primary insurance company? I have this working in my version and I have found it to be useful, especially when I had to reprint all of my medicare claims because of a date and zip code problem.