Copying Work Environments, Views and Variants 

Use

The copy function provides the easiest means of creating new work environments, variants (function variants, selection variants and layouts) and views. You can use the copy function in three variations:

·        Copy Work Environment Without Views and Variants

Here you assign the views and variants, which were assigned to the work environment originally selected, to the new work environment. You should use this method if you wish to quickly distribute the defined view to all care units and outpatient clinics.

·        Copy Work Environment and View Without Variants

Here the system will only use the variants in the new views. It recreates the views and work environments.

·        Copy Work Environment, Views and Variants

Prerequisites

You access the function for copying work environments, variants and views by choosing the Manage Work Environments function. See the prerequisites described in Manage Work Environments.

You should note that although this copy function makes it easier to create work environments, views and variants, it becomes more difficult to maintain them.

You will often need to modify function variants. This will require you to rename functions in the function bar, add new functions to function variants, and so on. If your system contains many function variants, you will need to modify them all in order to ensure uniform function descriptions. If you reuse function variants, you only need to make changes in one function variant.

If you copy work environments or views including variants, the system copies the name of the new work environment or view into the description of the variant, to simplify maintenance. This means you can distinguish the new variants from the original variants.

Procedure

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       1.      Call the Clinical Work Station.

For information about this, see Calling Clinical Work Station/Care Unit Work Station and Calling Outpatient Clinic Work Station/Service Facility Work Station, for example.

       2.      Choose Settings ® Manage Work Environments.

For detailed information about this, see Manage Work Environments.

       3.      Position the cursor on the work environment you wish to copy.

       4.      Select one of the following radio buttons in the resulting dialog box:

Copy Work Environment Without Views and Variants

Copy Work Environment and View Without Variants

Copy Work Environment, Views and Variants

Give a name to the new work environment.

       5.      Choose .

Result

The system creates the copy in relation to the criteria you specified.