Re: [Gnumed-devel] Sort order and clin_when

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-07-17, at 2:03 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:35:49PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> Within any one patient, is clin_when the default sort order for all query 
>> result presented in GNUmed's plugins?
> 
> No.

Let me ask better / differently.

Those GNUmed tables which contain at *least* one date column may contain

        modified_when
        clin_when

So, excluding the case of the Report generator plugin (because its queries are 
free-form and not hard-coded), what I *should* have more clearly asked concerns 
which of the two dates get used in the UI and how. There can be:

- explicit presentation (being "shown" to the user) where it would maybe be 
obvious

- implicit presentation (specification of query ranges of interest, sort order) 
when the dates themselves may not appear in the UI.

So I am wondering whether this choice has already needed to be made in any 
queries that would present such information to the user, or not yet?

-- Jim