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Hey Jordan! Will you ensure we have APIs available for working with data in secured tables? Example I know vendors like Flex writes heavily into payments table and there arent any APIs that replaces all the functionality. So what will happen there?

If I filter by passing a status="booked" param, I get the results just fine, but i'm trying to get all the appointments as a one time upload into our system. How do we increase the timeout on the API or what other way can we do this to prevent timeouts?

Another issue we're facing: not all patients will have a folder designated in the file directory right off the bat. And there's no default naming convention for a folder that maps back to a patient. meaning we would have to go into open dental manually to create a default folder for a patient, and T...

jordansparks wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:30 am

I think we might be able to add that today to the head, and maybe backport to beta if it looks extremely safe.

Thanks Jordan! and that would work only for offices on the latest version of OD whenever you roll this out i assume

Correct. You can't specify the folder. I think it ends up in the first folder. So you could organize the folders with your "in" folder at the top, if that's how it's normally used. I'll think about some sort of special prefix or suffix that could be added to the filename to designate destination fo...

drtech wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:27 am

just drag it to the folder you want or right click and change the category from the properties window

We're uploading the PDFs programmatically and there's no API for this

Thanks Jordan. How would we specify which folder in the patient's chart we want the PDF to go in without touching the db? Seems like it just goes to a default folder in the patient's chart and can't be categorized

I remember being pointed to the sheets table, but I don't see reference to folders at all there

Is a .dll plugin the only way to accomplish this or can you read the folder list from the DB and write files in with a DB insert? I looked at the query list and couldn't find anything related to this.

Thanks in advance!

Hi Jordan, what would be a "dangerous" table example?

Any ETA? It's still down

Hey guys,

I noticed the API doesnt have anything regarding patient forms. How would we access them programmatically?

Hey guys, My team is using this endpoint: https://api.opendental.com/fhir/v2 It works sometimes, other times throws this error: { "resourceType": "OperationOutcome", "issue": [ { "severity": "error", "code": "exception", "details": { "text": "The office's eConnector is not running. Please contact th...

Hey guys, for example the Patient API doesnt include things like insurance info, their current status (in room, unconfirmed, etc) etc so I feel like I don't have a choice. What are the best practices when the API is not adequate? I really hate the idea of writing to the db and queries are more compl...

Hey guys, We are developing some software that integrated with OD, and I realized the API does not have all the data we need, so looks like we'll need to plug in directly with the database and that does not seem like a trivial task.. does anyone know where I can find a developer experienced with OD ...