Feature request: allow SiteNum on Patients POST/PUT

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rober2092
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Feature request: allow SiteNum on Patients POST/PUT

Post by rober2092 »

We're a mobile dental practice serving patients in skilled nursing facilities, and our Open Dental database uses Sites to link each patient to their facility. Our application creates and updates patients through the API, but SiteNum is only returned by Patients GET. It isn't
accepted on Patients POST (create) or PUT (update), and there's no Sites resource.

Could SiteNum be added to Patients POST and PUT (validated against the site table), the same way ClinicNum and SuperFamily are supported? Without it, every patient created through the API has to be assigned to a Site by hand in Open Dental.

Thank you!
justine
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Re: Feature request: allow SiteNum on Patients POST/PUT

Post by justine »

rober2092 wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2026 3:05 pm We're a mobile dental practice serving patients in skilled nursing facilities, and our Open Dental database uses Sites to link each patient to their facility. Our application creates and updates patients through the API, but SiteNum is only returned by Patients GET. It isn't
accepted on Patients POST (create) or PUT (update), and there's no Sites resource.

Could SiteNum be added to Patients POST and PUT (validated against the site table), the same way ClinicNum and SuperFamily are supported? Without it, every patient created through the API has to be assigned to a Site by hand in Open Dental.

Thank you!
Hello rober2092,

I have added SiteNum to the API development list.

Thanks!
rober2092
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Re: Feature request: allow SiteNum on Patients POST/PUT

Post by rober2092 »

Thank you very much.
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