[Gnumed-devel] soap notes editor/creator combo? (was improved soap notes creator screenshot)

[James Busser]

On 21-Nov-08, at 1:43 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> ["Recent Notes" ...] already shrinkable - the right hand side is a  
> horizontal splitter. The handle between recent notes and notes  
> editor can be dragged up and down as needed. The seemingly-one-line  
> SOAP fields do auto-expand upon typing. It is possible to make the  
> recent notes a collapsible pane, too, if that is thought of value.

Once we are happier with  better managing the encounter (continue vs  
new) + RFE + AOE aspects, I think the next important thing could be  
improving the structured display of existing notes (i.e. making them  
more- or better-readable).

However -- since the design of a creator may as well be aware of  
*possibilities* for how the editing function could be dovetailed -- I  
may as well put out the following ideas, while remaining happy to  
"dock" the thread, linking from the todo page and listing also as a  
proposal at Launchpad blueprints.

I was wondering whether the area that used to display "Most Recent  
Related Note(s)" can be made more powerful/ functional, in order to  
allow an earlier-saved notelet to be selected and raised for editing  
when it was recognized to have been improperly or inaccurately recorded.

The idea might be that when a problem is clicked from the left hand  
list, one line of data per related notelets (maybe datetime and a  
string from the notelet so"A"p row) would be displayed along the  
right (or in the area currently occupied by Hints & Tips). At the  
point where the user would click on one of the notelets, the  
notelet's contents could be rendered editable in the pane presently  
serving for "creation".

In other words, within this soap notes plug-in, the user could select  
to view any notelet, upon whose selection its contents would be shown  
in the space occupied by the creator. The creator pane would in  
essence become a review / edit / create new notelet pane. Extra  
buttons within the pane (left, right arrows) could support scrolling  
between "previous" (older) and "next" (newer) notelets.

Single-clicking any problem in the left hand list would
- highlight the most recent related notelet (in the list of related  
notelets)
- raise this most recent notelet as the first (primary) tab within  
the review / edit / create pane
- if it is not chosen to edit this notelet, nor to scroll / view  
earlier ones, the user could click "next" or "new" and be presented  
with creator functionality.

When the user would single-click a second, third... problem a second  
review / edit / creator tab would be raised in which to review /  
edit / create notelets for this second, third... problem.

Double-clicks, instead of single clicks, could be made a condition  
before a problem at left would be raised into the review / edit /  
creator tab.

Maybe a single click would only raise the most recent related notelet  
into the review / edit / area but without exposing an edit button...  
maybe it should be a double-click on a specific notelet within the  
list of notelet that makes a notelet editable?

I only just don't know if it will be possible to cache (unsaved) the  
text of a new soap, in order to permit scrolling back to an earlier  
notelet, and then restoring (from cache) the unsaved text of the  
notelet-under-creation. Maybe at the point where a new notelet is  
being created, the user would lose their ability to scroll (within  
this plug-in) among the earlier notelets, until after they had  
committed the notelet-under-creation. I suppose, though, they could  
review the earlier notelets from inside a different plug-in?