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When we import an image to od, it automatically assumes that it is a picture, and we can choose as to whether it is a document, xray, photo , file or mount

It seems to be set on photo as default, which is fine for patient pictures, and photos.

Can we set the default for pt info, med history, financial, tx plan, letter to DOCUMENT,

and set the bw, pas and opg to RADIOGRAPH?

It just seems silly that we almost always need to click what it is, when od should be able to realise what it is 99% of the time correctly by seeing WHERE we are putting it

It sounds like you want feature request #2910 - Images module setting for default item type when importing files.
http://www.opendental.com/manual/featurerequests.html

aussiedentist wrote:It just seems silly that we almost always need to click what it is, when od should be able to realise what it is 99% of the time correctly by seeing WHERE we are putting it

Open Dental could possibly realize what the file is based on extension but the "WHERE" of the file placement is currently arbitrary. Those "folders" that you see in the Images module are user defined and have no such metadata on them that suggests what type of files are going to be placed within them by default (sans for MAYBE the categories with our specific flags of Patient Pictures, Statements, etc). It would be a feature request for us to add something for the user to pick or define what type of file is typically going to go into the "WHERE" or we could do some magical guessing like we do with photos but even that will never be 100% accurate.
http://www.opendental.com/manual/defini ... lines.html