Using a different tool to create forms?

jmager wrote on Friday, July 15, 2011:

I have been playing with a tool that can create forms and reports…  with intentions (hope) that it would be able to help speed up the form creation process in openemr.  Unfortunately it is a commercial product.

I have had success in getting the forms and reports to open in the frames and blends in really well.

I have read the forms api http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/The_Forms_API  and kinda understand what it is talking about.

If the form is launched from the left-nav…how do I connect it to the patiens PID?

Do I just add  $GLOBALS to the form?

Thanks for any help!

yehster wrote on Friday, July 15, 2011:

if you have appropriately included interface/globals.php , then yes, if you access $GLOBALS that will give you the patient’s ID.