Both.

You can print directly to a printer if that printer is defined on the server that hosts the web application. You can assign printers to templates and specify these printers by practice location. You can also tell the system not to interact with the printer during printing so will not display print dialogue with option to Print, Preview or Cancel.

The Preview option in the Print dialogue downloads the document to the browser at which point it can be printed.

We use jasperreports for any document that has more complex datasets such as invoices, statements, reports etc as these typically have multiple rows of data and require groupings and other data processing functions not available in OpenOffice. Also these are changed rarely except during implementation and typically contributed in the case of Reports.

OpenOffice is used for customer and patient documents. These are more likely to be modified and added by the practice so a standard Word Processor editor is more appropriate for the User.

No strategy to change this at this point.

The app uses Spring's JavaMailSenderImpl class to send emails. If your SMTP server requires authentication, this can be specified in applicationContext.xml:

<bean id="mailSender" class="org.openvpms.web.component.service.MailService" singleton="false">

<property name="username" value="someuser"/>

<property name="password" value="somepassword"/>  </bean>