Torex Synergy: hints and tips for hooks

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• Hooks in practice Torus article (183K)
• Examples of hooks
• The hooks editor
• Firing multiple Sophies from a hook
• Hooking to another program which is visible

The hooks editor

From within the Hooks Editor the individual parameters can be set as follows

• The Hook Type must be "Callback"
• The Hook Event Name can be either "Add Read Code", "Save Entry" or LoadPatient . "Add Read Code" is triggered when the read code is entered and every time the note is edited, whereas "Save Entry" is only triggered when the note is first saved.
• The Event Trigger Value contains a Read Code, and must have 5 characters, padded to the right with dots, for both four and five byte systems.
• The mode is only useful for triggering in hidden mode for Watchdogs, and is -mH, otherwise the normal mode (-mS )is the default and run when no mode is specified.
• Any Read Codes in the hooked SOPHIE that are not explicitly put under a particular problem will be put in the problem from which the hooked note was entered. If the hooked note was a problem, then they will be put in that problem.

The runtime parameters that SOPHIE can accept are

-m<H|S> mode hidden or show (defaults to show)
-p<ID> is patient id (defaults to none)
-g<string> is guideline (defaults to none) (prepends path defined in .ini file, if not an explicit path)

An example of the Hook Command is

sophie -p$patientid -gs:\meddata\s6000\guidelines\Stopping_smoking_[319].sow

If you don't use "-p$patientid", then sophie won't load the current patient in Clinic. It is best to use guidelines that are on the server, so everyone in the practice can use them.

Steve Speakman

Firing multiple Sophies

Hooking to another program which is visible

• Brad Cheek: last updated Dec 2006
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