OpenVPMS 1.9-beta-1

The OpenVPMS development team is pleased to announce the release of OpenVPMS 1.9-beta-1.

This is a beta release of OpenVPMS 1.9, to allow users to test the new features prior the final 1.9 release.

See New in 1.9 for a summary of new features.

The release can be downloaded here: openvpms-release-1.9-beta-1.zip

See Installing OpenVPMS for installation instructions.

See Known Issues for any known issues with this release.

Requirements: 

See Requirements for the pre-requisites for this release.

New features: 
Improvements: 
  • [OVPMS-924] - Change Preview button to Print button
  • [OVPMS-975] - Follow-up work lists
  • [OVPMS-1451] - Preserve selection switching from edit to view
  • [OVPMS-1567] - Replace entity relationship between products and product types with an entity link
  • [OVPMS-1569] - Replace entity relationships between products and suppliers with an entity link
  • [OVPMS-1570] - Replace entity relationships between products and stock locations with an entity link
  • [OVPMS-1572] - Integrated docloader has shortcomings
  • [OVPMS-1583] - Invoiceitem cascade deletes investigation that may already be reported.
  • [OVPMS-1599] - Extend document file name support to SQL reports
  • [OVPMS-1607] - Provide tool to generate A5, Letter format JasperReports from A4 templates
  • [OVPMS-1625] - Keep desex/deceased status when merging patients
  • [OVPMS-1631] - openvpms.org being down for maintenance is not handled gracefully
  • [OVPMS-1638] - Document Loader Job: Move invalid documents to error directory
  • [OVPMS-1639] - Strikethrough for completed and cancelled appointments
  • [OVPMS-1642] - Add reporting datasource for SQL reports to allow SQL reports to run against slave db
  • [OVPMS-1643] - Change Medication layout, to reduce overall width
  • [OVPMS-1647] - Change report parameter text areas to display a single line
  • [OVPMS-1648] - Sort charge and estimate items by template or product type
  • [OVPMS-1649] - Product price rounding
  • [OVPMS-1651] - Add support to show/hide the batch column during charging
  • [OVPMS-1659] - Improved Till Balance and Bank Deposit templates
  • [OVPMS-1660] - Key Performance Indicators Report
  • [OVPMS-1661] - JXPath function required for date addition
  • [OVPMS-1665] - Product 'use only in templates' flag
  • [OVPMS-1674] - Add VeNom 'Reason for visit' codes
  • [OVPMS-1675] - Default email contact
  • [OVPMS-1677] - Add dose number to product dosing
  • [OVPMS-1681] - Add duplicate checking and overwrite support to docload -n
  • [OVPMS-1691] - Invoice auto save
  • [OVPMS-1700] - Change order of patient identity archetypes
  • [OVPMS-1705] - Add option to ignore decreases in List Prices
  • [OVPMS-1706] - Add support for $nl variable in macros
  • [OVPMS-1720] - Smart Flow Sheet Improvement Stage 1
  • [OVPMS-1738] - Add a website contact
  • [OVPMS-1739] - Add Preferred, Allow SMS columns to Contacts table
  • [OVPMS-1742] - Allow expression in report's sub-report expression
  • [OVPMS-1743] - System document renovation
  • [OVPMS-1747] - Add support to External Edit patient letters created during invoicing
  • [OVPMS-1749] - Add reminder functions to get all reminders for a patient on a date/date range
  • [OVPMS-1750] - Add reminder functions to get all reminders for a patient by date/date range and product type
  • [OVPMS-1752] - Add history:medication(patient, productTypeName, date)
  • [OVPMS-1754] - Prompt for parameters when selecting email templates
  • [OVPMS-1755] - Add support for grouped reminder email templates
  • [OVPMS-1757] - Add optional product node to act.patientDocumentLetter
  • [OVPMS-1758] - Wildcard searches
  • [OVPMS-1759] - Separate mail templates from pre-fill templates
  • [OVPMS-1760] - Add party:getAppointments(customer, interval, units)
  • [OVPMS-1762] - Provide history functions to return charges
  • [OVPMS-1765] - Include batch number in Medical Records.jrxml
  • [OVPMS-1767] - Support macro expansion in SMS reminders
  • [OVPMS-1768] - Charge and estimate minimum quantities
  • [OVPMS-1769] - Distinguish between SMS appointment reminders and general SMSes in communications log
  • [OVPMS-1770] - Tax-exclusive product prices
  • [OVPMS-1771] - Add barbecue support
  • [OVPMS-1772] - Add support to time out mail server connections
  • [OVPMS-1773] - Add support to disable appointment reminders by appointment type
  • [OVPMS-1784] - Date reporting functions to support now, today, yesterday, tomorrow and hour additions
  • [OVPMS-1785] - Add support to customise visit display in patient, problem history
  • [OVPMS-1788] - Preselect documents for printing on check-in and transfer
  • [OVPMS-1789] - Standardise security.user name attributes, and provide reporting support
  • [OVPMS-1791] - Add support to invoke the EVALUATE() function in all JasperReports
  • [OVPMS-1792] - Add user preference to display batch numbers in patient history
  • [OVPMS-1795] - Add optional Printed Name attribute to lookup.uom
Tasks: 
  • [OVPMS-1301] - Prevent macros and reports invoking JXPath extension functions that update the database
  • [OVPMS-1310] - Statement accounting fee adjustment should use the lookup.customerAccountType accountFeeMessage text
  • [OVPMS-1312] - Prevent deletion of archetypes that are in use
  • [OVPMS-1477] - Add support to print supplier deliveries and returns
  • [OVPMS-1626] - Set visit status to Completed when invoice finalised
  • [OVPMS-1637] - Don't use context clinician when performing Check-In
  • [OVPMS-1650] - Allow appointment status colours to be configured in site.properties
  • [OVPMS-1662] - Send patient owner identifier in PID-18 Patient Account Number
  • [OVPMS-1663] - Include customer practice location in reminder export
  • [OVPMS-1669] - Add support for Clickatell 2 Way SMS
  • [OVPMS-1672] - Add support for multiple MLLP receivers on the one socket
  • [OVPMS-1676] - Relax product validation constraints on patient investigations
  • [OVPMS-1678] - Add validation to idealQty and criticalQty nodes of entityRelationship.productStockLocation
  • [OVPMS-1704] - Add support to enable/disable ADT messages for IDEXX
  • [OVPMS-1712] - Preserve invoice item sort order and selection when adding/deleting items
  • [OVPMS-1721] - Warn about loss of merge fields when editing .doc in OpenOffice
  • [OVPMS-1727] - Include template name when displaying report errors
  • [OVPMS-1728] - Add support to load subreports from all report bands in JasperReports
  • [OVPMS-1737] - Supplier - location account identifier
  • [OVPMS-1774] - Suppress appointment reminders for inactive customers and patients
  • [OVPMS-1775] - Add list:values(object, node) and list:distinct(object, node)
  • [OVPMS-1776] - Add Content column in Document Templates table to display the template file name
  • [OVPMS-1778] - Add support to configure referral display in patient summary
  • [OVPMS-1779] - Update Smartflow report download support
  • [OVPMS-1780] - Remove DNR from hospitalization record
  • [OVPMS-1782] - Add validation to estimate items, to ensure high qty >= low qty
  • [OVPMS-1797] - Prevent creation of Initial Balance acts, if a customer has any account acts
  • [OVPMS-1798] - Display a warning when printing hidden customer transactions
  • [OVPMS-1801] - Add support to disable user preferences on a per-user basis
  • [OVPMS-1802] - Include timeout warning in lookup replacement dialog
  • [OVPMS-1804] - Add support to administratively reset user preferences
Bug fixes: 
  • [OVPMS-966] - Scheduling and Worklist calendar component not being initialised with current displayed date
  • [OVPMS-1273] - Invoice item Add button disabled if interactive reminders have their due dates changed
  • [OVPMS-1389] - Messages filter not functioning
  • [OVPMS-1399] - Can't sort security authorities on Archetype Name column
  • [OVPMS-1415] - Cannot edit AssertionProperty nodes in Administration|Archetypes
  • [OVPMS-1421] - Stock Location - Products don't sort
  • [OVPMS-1508] - Cannot call apply() recursively error when editing patients
  • [OVPMS-1518] - Shortcuts only available on the first tab when editing
  • [OVPMS-1576] - Data truncation: Data too long for column 'name' at row 1
  • [OVPMS-1598] - Product reminders not visible after saving invoice
  • [OVPMS-1634] - Customer and patient alerts not displayed in appointment editor
  • [OVPMS-1640] - Shut down quartz, OpenOffice threads when webapp stopped
  • [OVPMS-1641] - PatientRules.getOwnerReference() doesn't pick most recent active relationship
  • [OVPMS-1644] - Charge item batch number removed when changing clinician
  • [OVPMS-1645] - Date filter does not filter orders to include in a Return
  • [OVPMS-1654] - Users without admin rights can edit products
  • [OVPMS-1655] - Free Appointment Slot query uses wrong database index
  • [OVPMS-1656] - Amount doesn't match the sum of the Items error when invoicing estimate
  • [OVPMS-1657] - Memory leak in message monitor
  • [OVPMS-1658] - Date choosers in editors show current rather than selected month
  • [OVPMS-1664] - Product templates created prior to 1.8 display Print flag as unset
  • [OVPMS-1666] - KPI report has wrong Avg Outstanding Balance numbers
  • [OVPMS-1670] - Patient List Report shows prior owners
  • [OVPMS-1673] - OrderGenerator tries to generate orders with negative quantities if there is a fractional on hand quantity and Ideal Qty < Critical Qty
  • [OVPMS-1680] - Printing documents with no associated templates not selecting the default practice printer
  • [OVPMS-1682] - Practice Summary - Count Visits by Location - Active Patient count wrong
  • [OVPMS-1683] - The Practice Summary visits by location & visits by clinician have small errors in the counting and percentages
  • [OVPMS-1685] - Save failing when swapping charge item products with reminders
  • [OVPMS-1688] - act.supplier*Item acts missing minCardinality=1 for quantity node
  • [OVPMS-1689] - ReminderRules.calculateProductReminderDueDate() should handle missing Period Units
  • [OVPMS-1692] - Order generator handles part delivered orders with received > ordered qty incorrectly
  • [OVPMS-1693] - Inactive product batches included in Batch dropdowns
  • [OVPMS-1695] - StaleObjectStateException invoicing supplier delivery
  • [OVPMS-1696] - NullPointerException calculating product reminder due date
  • [OVPMS-1697] - NodeDescriptor doesn't support derived=true and null derivedValue expressions
  • [OVPMS-1702] - Inactive default practice location prevents location initialisation
  • [OVPMS-1703] - 24:00 no longer supported in schedules
  • [OVPMS-1707] - Appointment clinician/patient can be initialised from current context on copy or move
  • [OVPMS-1709] - Duplicate reminders not completed when multiple products charged with same reminder type
  • [OVPMS-1710] - Customer orders invoiced when the quantity is zero
  • [OVPMS-1715] - New unit prices not calculated if a product-supplier relationship has Auto Price Update selected
  • [OVPMS-1725] - Help dialog terminates session if subscription name contains an &
  • [OVPMS-1736] - Price date validation inconsistent
  • [OVPMS-1740] - Editing a single appointment in a series triggers overlap check for subsequent appointments
  • [OVPMS-1745] - OpenVPMS Editor Launcher not supported on OSX
  • [OVPMS-1748] - Patient history prevents deletion of documents linked to invoices
  • [OVPMS-1751] - Customer and patient search doesn't exclude inactive customer relationships
  • [OVPMS-1753] - 1.7 to 1.8 migration script fails to migrate templates if a template has duplicate products
  • [OVPMS-1761] - Restrict document templates to mergable content
  • [OVPMS-1794] - Investigation Print Form downloads PDF instead of printing JasperReports templates
  • [OVPMS-1800] - Template expansion includes inactive products
  • [OVPMS-1805] - Prescription creation and dispensing ignores Use Location Products flag