Installing SEURCLIN.MDB

NOTICE:  THIS PROCEDURE DOES NOT NECESSARILY CORRESPOND TO THE INSTALLATION OF THE NEW VERSION OF SEURCLIN (98.1.0).

Copies of the SEURCLIN.MDB front end were re-installed in the resident's room machine and the nursing station machines, using the following procedure:

  1. Copy SEURCLIN.MDB file from original floppy to the C:directory (all Seurat-relevant files should be kept in such a directory on any hard disk).
  2. Open the file in Access as the administrator user.
  3. Change the attachment: the local development version attaches to a SEURDATA.MDB file which is on the local drive. This needs to be assigned to the network drive. Open the FILE menu, then go to the ADD-INS option, over to the ATTACHMENT MANAGER. A dialog box should open showing all the attached tables.
  4. Select all of the attached tables, then click OK.
  5. A file dialog box should open. Change the disk drive source to W: (or whatever drive maps to the SEURAT file server). Select the SEURAT subdirectory, then the SEURDATA.MDB file (so it should be W:\TELEFORMS\SEURAT\SEURDATA.MDB).
  6. Hopefully, it will give you a message box indicating that all links have been refreshed. Click OK.
  7. Click CANCEL (clicking OK will attempt to open the file dialog box of step #5 again).

    Change printer setup:

  8. At present, the RptPatient report requires an idiosyncratic, non-default printer driver (i.e. the one to the Win 3.1 based HP 4M+ driver; this will not be an issue if/when we move to a double-sided printer). If you move it to a new machine, it will not be able to open the report.
  9. Open RptPatient in design mode.
  10. Open the PAGE SETUP option from the FILE menu. It will give you a message saying that it doesn't recognize the non-default driver, and is switching to the default driver. Click (OK).
  11. Save the form.

    Change the exit procedure:

  12. This is only necessary if the installation is occurring on a nursing station computer, or one where the File Manager is not available. If that is the case, this terminal is logging in as "Admin," sans password, and using an Access form looking up a local Users table to allow entry into the database.
  13. Open the module "ChartFunctions."
  14. Go to the Sub ExitCommand. This procedure has both versions of the code necessary depending on whether you are using Access security or the login screen described in #12.
  15. If you are using Access security, make sure the DoCmd Quit segment is active, and the other segment is commented out.
  16. If you are using form-based confirmation as in #12, make sure the DoCmd Quit segment is commented out, and that the OpenForm and Close commands are active.
  17. Save the module and close.

    Resizing windows:

  18. Several windows may behave flakily when transferring them from a development Win95 environment with a big screen to a small monitor. In particular, pay attention to the form size for CheckInPatient, PatientChart, AggregateReportMenu, and FindPatient forms -- they may need to be stretched down so that everything is visible in them.
  19. Saving what you've done: Once you have made these changes, and confirmed that a few basic operations work, copy the SEURCLIN.MDB file back onto a floppy disk. This will serve as a backup copy, should the file be corrupted. Then re-installation is a simpler matter of copying the file into the SEURAT directory without having to do any extra futzing. Also, it makes installation into a different machine with the same setup a snap.

 

Created by James C.S. Liu, M.D. on 28 August 1998
Updated by Geoffrey J. Corb on 14 September 1998