Creating Work Environments

When you create a new work environment in the Clinical Work Station, the system displays a preview of how this work environment looks based on the current settings. The views available in the system are also displayed by view type. You can assign views from this “view catalog” to the work environments.

For more information, see Generate Keys.

Procedure

Call the clinical work station.
For more information, see Calling Clinical Work Station/Care Unit Work Station or Calling Outpatient Clinic/Service Facility Work Station.
Choose Settings Manage Work Environments .
The Manage Work Environments dialog box appears.

For more information about all management functions for work environments, see Manage Work Environments.
Choose (Create).
The Create Work Environment dialog box appears.
Enter the name of the work environment.

Note
Customers cannot change SAP work environments shipped with the standard system.

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Select Hide Title, if appropriate (see F1 Help).
The upper part of the dialog box contains the following fields:
- Institution
- Nursing OU
- Departmental OU
- Performing OU
- Plan./Initiat. OU
The system uses the planning/initiating OU in the following functions if you have not selected a patient in a view: when creating a preregistration, when creating a provisional appointment for an initial or follow-up visit and in the preregistration list.

These organizational units (OUs) serve as default values for the views defined for general use (“generic” views). (For more information about “generic” views, see Tips on Setting Up the Clinical Work Station). Views defined for general use are views that are created without reference to an OU. This means that they an OU is not stored in the assigned selection variant. The OU on which the view runs is defined in the assignment to a work environment tailored for a specific OU.

The institution, nursing OU and departmental OU are important for the view types Occupancy, Arrivals and Departures. The performing OU is not relevant for these three view types.

Two screen areas are located below the input fields:
- The preview of the work environment based on the current settings is displayed on the left.
- The catalog of views available in the system is listed on the right.
Drag & Drop lets you “drag” views from the view catalog into the work environment. In doing so, align the views in the desired sort order. You can return the views from the work environment to the view catalog using the same function.
To modify the attributes of a view, click the pushbutton for the view name. For more information, see Changing Views.
In the work environment preview on the left, you can click the same pushbutton to modify the attributes of the assignment to the work environment. Here you can specify the sort number (priority of the view in the work environment), stipulate whether this view should be used as the default work environment, and specify the text (description) output in the work environment. The placeholders &e (performing OU), &p (nursing OU) and &f (departmental OU) are available to you in this text. Always use these placeholders to output the current OU in the view name.

Note
If you were to include the OU as a fixed element of the name, this field cannot be refreshed if you change the current OU using the Change Selection function. The system would display patients who are not on the OU described.

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If you have selected a view, the following functions are available to you when you call the context menu:

Context Menu under View Catalog	Function
Changing Views	You can change the view. For more information, see Changing Views.
Delete View	You can physically delete the view. For more information, see Deleting Views, Variants/Layouts and Work Environments.
Add View to Work Environment	You can add the selected view to the work environment.

Context Menu under View Catalog

Function

Changing Views

You can change the view.

For more information, see Changing Views.

Delete View

You can physically delete the view.

For more information, see Deleting Views, Variants/Layouts and Work Environments.

Add View to Work Environment

You can add the selected view to the work environment.

Context Menu under Work Environment Preview	Function
Details on Assignment to Work Environment	You can change the assignment data, for example: If you set the Default indicator for a view, this view is selected by default and the selected data is displayed in the view area when you start the Clinical Work Station. The system automatically opens the folders for the work environments. The priority of the view in the work environment determines where the system displays the view. See the F1 Help. You can also modify the name of the view.
Changing Views	You can change the view. For more information, see Changing Views.
Delete from Work Environment	You can delete the view from the work environment.

Context Menu under Work Environment Preview

Function

Details on Assignment to Work Environment

You can change the assignment data, for example:

If you set the Default indicator for a view, this view is selected by default and the selected data is displayed in the view area when you start the Clinical Work Station. The system automatically opens the folders for the work environments.

The priority of the view in the work environment determines where the system displays the view. See the F1 Help.

You can also modify the name of the view.

Changing Views

You can change the view.

For more information, see Changing Views.

Delete from Work Environment

You can delete the view from the work environment.

Result

The work environment you’ve just created with the assigned views appears in your LaunchPad.