CompuServe Messages

Tim, Set up your files as you normally would, making sure that there is a unique key available in the patient file. Then use a LOOKUP command to determine whether or not the patient is entered in the file. If you want you can use a REQUEST 4 to ask for a last name, and then do a REQUEST 20 on the last name making sure that the current index is on last name. If the user OK's out of the requester, then you have your record (maybe, they could have typed something in so you will still have to recheck). If they canceled out, then you can ask if they want to enter a new one and deal with that first. Once you have the patient record number, you can insert that into an appropriate field in the appointment database. If you want to have simpler access to the patient data, you can also create VTX fields with lookups to hold the necessary patient data. Ciao, Neil