I noticed that the PDF viewing area in OpenEMR 4.0 is about 2/3 smaller than it was with OpenEMR 3.0.1. I was wondering what people thought about moving the “Notes (add)” text box to the upper right hand corner of the screen on the same row as “Sha-1 Hash: (validate)” or even on the same row as the “Download” button? Then the PDF document viewing area could be increased. There is a lot of unused screen real estate that the PDF viewing area could utilize. Of course getting rid of the bottom frame would also help but I am not sure what the long term plans are with the bottom frame. I am going to play around with this on my installation because my users are used to the larger PDF viewing area from OpenEMR 3.0.1. Thoughts?
I agree with Mike. Please increase PDF viewing area.
Notes textarea can be decreased to 2 rows, and increase width (same as pdf width).
“Rename” and “Move” option should be available only to admins or restricted users. In multi-user facility there are lot of chances that medical assistants play with these buttons. I have everyday headache with this “Move” button
In what instances do you find use for the bottom frame in 4.0? I have been using the bottom frame since OpenEMR 2.8.3 with the old style menu at the top. If I turn off the bottom frame, then I would not have to re-arrange the document viewing area and only have to make it larger. I like the idea of turning off the bottom frame. What are the future plans for the bottom frame? I believe Dr. Bowen mentioned in another post that the encounters frame would be merged to the patient summary area.
The plan is to move the encounters section to the summary page. The current blank space will become filled with the “Problem list” on the Summary page. The goal is for the patient summary page to become the “patient dashboard.”
I use the bottom frame only when I need to see two screens from the left menu at the same time for a “research” such as looking at the calendar or looking up a address/contract in the address book will talking to a patient. Mostly I just use full screen mode and turn on and off the top and bottom frames to switch views. As too encounters + patient summary. Since you can flip back and forth between the active encounter and the active patient in the title bar I never use the bottom frame for encounter/visit processing.
Down the road I do want to make it so the right column patient summary info is visible and the ‘encounter’ take over (mostly) the left side of the summary screen, kind of like doing automatic collapse of all the left side section and opening one that is encounter processing.
Notes textarea can be decreased to 2 rows, and increase width (same as pdf width). “Rename” and “Move” option should be available only to admins or restricted users. In multi-user facility there are lot of chances that medical assistants play with these buttons. I have everyday headache with this “Move” button
As enhancement request in the Tracker->Feature Request database so they don’t get lost
Jeremy Wallace has written code that automagically sets the pdfs, jpgs to the correct width for best viewing. This could likely be shared with the main branch.
What is controlling the height of the document viewing area? I noticed that adjusting the attributes of the iframe tag in /templates/documents/general_view.html has no impact. Actually, none of the iframe attributes seem to take effect there. I also looked in C_Document.class.php and Document.class.php files and did not see anything for adjusting the height of the document viewing area.
