Find Open Time Slots Using Advanced Search (SAP Library

Find Open Time Slots Using Advanced Search

Use

You can search for an open time slot and create a provisional appointment or an outpatient visit from Visit Scheduling.

Note

You can also access the search from the visit overview. Choose Time Slot.

Features

In addition to the search criteria available in the Standard Search, the advanced search also enables you to search for a multiappointment with different intervals between the various treatment units.

Settings

You make the basic settings for the search on the Settings tab page. For more information about this, see Visit Scheduling.

Search Criteria

If you wish to use the advanced search, enter search criteria on the Advanced Search tab page.

Search Variant

If search variants are created or assigned for the user or the role to which the user is assigned, the user can choose these under Search Variant.

For more information about this, see

Search Variant

Assigning Search Variants to Users/Roles

Saving Search Variants on a User Basis

Using Search Variants

Search from a Given Date

In the From field, the system proposes the date for which you called Visit Scheduling or the Visit Overview. You can change this date. Specify the start date for the search.

If the search relates to a date that occurs a given number of weeks ahead of the date specified here, enter the number of weeks in the In (...) Weeks field. The system then searches for open time slots as of the Monday after the specified number of weeks.

Example

User input: In 3 Weeks

The system searches for open time slots as of Monday three weeks later.

Other Search Criteria in the Advanced Search

In comparison to the Standard Search, the following additional search criteria are available to you in the Advanced Search:

If the open time slot search is only to take into account time slots that occur at or after a specific time, specify this time in the From column. To do this, choose the value help.
If the open time slot search is only to take into account time slots that occur at or before a specific time, specify this time in the To column. To do this, choose the value help.

In the MiI field, you can specify the minimum interval to be respected between two consecutive treatment appointments of a patient.
In the MaI field, you can specify the maximum interval to be respected between two consecutive treatment appointments of a patient.

The starting point for calculating the interval to be respected is always the end time of the previous appointment. You specify the time unit for the interval between two appointments in minutes, hours or days in the Unit field. Use the value help.

Specifications for Recurrent Treatment Units

If you are searching for open time slots for a treatment unit that recurs at regular intervals (cyclical multiappointment), make the following entries in the Recurrence Pattern for Treatment Unit group box:

Enter the total number of treatment units in the Occurrences field.
Specify the interval separating the treatment units in one of the following fields:

– Every _ . Day(s)

– Every _ . Week(s)

– Every _ . Month(s)