[OpenEMed-developer] Re: Specify search criteria with PIDS idviewer

[David F. <dw...@la...>]

When you successfully connect to a PIDS server with the IDViewer (click on =
select source button and
select as in the other PIDS client), you should see a list of supported Tra=
its in the right top panel
and a list of sources in the upper left panel.   You can have multiple PIDS=
 servers with IDViewer.  =

Open one of the sources and you should see a list of traits that you can sp=
ecify.  Thus if you see
HL7/PatientName, you should see the various components of this trait below =
it, such as Family Name,
Given Name, Middle Name, Suffix and Prefix.  Click on the folder below the =
Family Name, say and you can type in a value.   Enter the family name you a=
re looking for (or any portion thereof) and click on find.  You then should=
 see search results in the panel below in a tree structure.  The upper righ=
t panel is to select which traits you want to be filled in.  The idea for I=
DViewer is to enable one to see much more complex traits that PIDS supports=
 by displaying them in an tree structure.   How it handles some of these tr=
aits is constrained by some XML files in the client directory.  For example=
 HL7Types.xml has the following:

<?xml version=3D"1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE PIDS SYSTEM 'XMLtypes.dtd'>
<PIDS>
<Trait name=3D"HL7/PatientName"  T=3D"XPN" sep=3D"^">
	<item DISPLAY=3D"1" T=3D"ST">Family Name</item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"1" T=3D"ST">Given Name</item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"1" T=3D"ST">Middle Name </item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"0" T=3D"ST">Suffix </item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"1" T=3D"ST">Prefix</item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"0" T=3D"ST">Degree</item>
<!--	<item DISPLAY=3D"0" T=3D"ST">Name Type Code</item>
	<item DISPLAY=3D"0" T=3D"ST">Name Representation Code</item>
-->
</Trait>

The DISPLAY attribute says to display the trait, the T attribute is the HL7=
 data type, the value of the item is the string to display for the type.   =
The commented out field is the difference between HL72.3 and HL72.4, I beli=
eve.

The display of the data is constrolled by the idviewer.xsl stylesheet that =
is applied to the DOM tree. =


This client was worked on several years ago to demonstrate how one could ha=
ndle arbitrary traits rather than the constrained ones in the simple PIDS d=
emo client.   It could use a little more work to improve its flexibility an=
d streamline the code considerably.    But it should get the point across o=
f the flexibility and power of PIDS.

I need to get some more documentation on IDViewer into the repository.


I hope this helps,

Dave

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Joncheng Kuo <ck...@sy...>
> To: ope...@li...
> Cc: "David Forslund" <dw...@la...>
> Date: Wed, Jun-23-2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: Specify search criteria with PIDS idviewer
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> I'm trying out the PIDS examples. The idviewer asked me to specify a =

> search criteria, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. Can anyone =

> help me with that? Thank you.
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> Joncheng
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