HOWTO: Put A XrayVision Button In PracticeWorks

To put a XrayVision button in PracticeWorks.

  1. Right-click on a blank area of the Other buttons in PracticeWorks Chart.


     

  2. Select the Add Button option.


     

  3. Click on the User Defined Button option.


     

  4. Click on the Define New button.


     

  5. Enter XVa3 as the button name and button label.  Select entire mouth for the Entry made for entry.  Select Not surface related for the Surface entry option.


     

  6. Click on the OK button.  The new XVa3 button will appear in the button list area of PracticeWorks.


     

  7. Right-click on the new XVa3 button.


     

  8. Select the Define AutoLinks option.


     

  9. Click on the Add button.


     

  10. Click on the Select? button in the Respond by section.


     

  11. When asked if it will ALWAYS occur for this event, click on the Yes button.



     

  12. Select the Run another application option.


     

  13. Click on the Define New button.


     

  14. Enter XVa3 as the description.


     

  15. Enter the command line to launch the XVa3 application.  Make sure that you specify the network path to the XVa3 application if running on a network even if XVa3 is installed on the local computer.   You will additionally need to specify the short filenames (the 8.3 format) for the path and not fully qualified names (PracticeWorks can not handle launching fully qualified names with spaces in them).



    The parameter that follows the executable file is: /p?<LastName>, <FirstName>::<SSN>::<PersonID>?
    Note that there is a space between the ?,? and ?<FirstName>? and that you should include the quotation marks. The 8.3 format of a directory or file can be found by using the LongToShort_Filename utility available on Apteryx?s utilities web site http://www.apteryxware.com/files/utilities.
     

  16. Click on the OK button.


     

  17. Click on the No button when asked if PracticeWorks should wait.


     

  18. Click on the No, always respond WITHOUT asking button.