Clovertech | Gary Atkinson | Activity https://clovertech.infor.com/members/gary-atkinson/activity/ Activity feed for Gary Atkinson. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:33:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3c7ced91d689470dcf4eaee6d8fcbecd Gary Atkinson replied to the topic sqlite in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sqlite-6/#post-80165 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:27:01 -0400 Femina- Yes I have done this a few times.  What you need to do is store ADT fields into the sql data, MRN, account etc etc.  Then store the HL7 Messages onto your cloverleaf server.  Then you run a schedule task to query the HL7 Messages against your sqlite database.  If message qualifies sent out else do something else.  Message if you would like…Read more

]]> 0 5b88a75c01fe375e5777b2794cec8aa0 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic The best way to handle ever changing tables in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/the-best-way-to-handle-ever-changing-tables/#post-78804 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:04:00 -0400 Has anyone tried this using a web service?

]]> 0 2b412600250ea89f6bb765ffc29390c1 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78476 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:58:26 -0400 No I don’t.  How would I get my hands on 64-bit version? 😛

]]> 0 f6421058cd89928e1951ec406440e86d Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78474 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:48:35 -0400 Yes, someone else has upgraded and their local install does not work as well.  Luckily we have a citrix install that works, as I think that is server 2003.

]]> 0 a76bee4a74102b9178ead17fc466097d Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78471 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:34 -0400 Mine is 64 bit.

]]> 0 74dd582c9fd78bb402341b8c92d43e05 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78469 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:10:43 -0400 I have re installed using the procedures above and I still can not get the IDE to run.  At this point I am at a lose as to how to get the IDE to run under windows 7.

]]> 0 05d1cfede5cb45e426f11c037dd082b3 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78465 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:41:18 -0400 Russ that URL does not work.  What tips and tricks did you have to do?

]]> 0 b62a7ef146099fa794cd4c8cf139aba3 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic CL 5.6 running local client on Windows 7 in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cl-5-6-running-local-client-on-windows-7/#post-78463 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:24:20 -0400 What do you mean “you will not have support”?

Also, that link does not work.

]]> 0 a2b5d91c9a6c070ed472e6c9383d9b24 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic XLATE Iteration Issue ~ Having issues on how make this work in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/xlate-iteration-issue-having-issues-on-how-make-this-work/#post-78042 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:16:33 -0500 are you using a custom or standard schema?

]]> 0 ed4214f3f3acfa55a05ee0d94e1de899 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic XLATE Iteration Issue ~ Having issues on how make this work in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/xlate-iteration-issue-having-issues-on-how-make-this-work/#post-78040 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:36 -0500 how do you have your schema set-up?  That will show you where to put your iterations.  Run a test message through the hl7tester.

]]> 0 3afeae5e253fd54fd2e92062848c3953 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sequential Number / Global Variable in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sequential-number-global-variable/#post-77729 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:10:37 -0500 the variable you use as the counter in the translation will reset.  try using global variable instead.

]]> 0 922afbcba4d06b89cc9985cee306dfc6 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sequential Number / Global Variable in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sequential-number-global-variable/#post-77727 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:03:48 -0500 if you going to use in the xlate, you can set up your own counter in the translation tool.  Then use MATH or whatever to change number.

I am not sure if you can access a .ctr file from inside a the translation..never tried that.

]]> 0 6d7a6557e5c811ba3505d35e76276eb2 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sequential Number / Global Variable in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sequential-number-global-variable/#post-77724 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:29:16 -0500 Like those guys said  ðŸ˜† Great thing to use if you need your MSH id number to be unique.

]]> 0 1ec95542198bfb1694d2973f21a2de37 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic More Itertate OBX help in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/more-itertate-obx-help/#post-77710 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:04:33 -0500 Your translation is a bit confusing.  Do you have multiple obr.obx groupings in your message?  If so, you should nest your iterations.  Also, the basis is not shown so there may be issue there too.  Run an example message in hl7tester with level3, this will show you were iterations are occurring.

]]> 0 51daa9ed34ffadcfbb77e8487bc224c6 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic 'unable to allocate fetch buffer' TCL error in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/unable-to-allocate-fetch-buffer-tcl-error/#post-77627 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:01:49 -0500 No restarting done.  Seems to happen just so often and usually just one message.  One will error but others will be fine.

]]> 0 7c03fac8d0debbc3fceb01ce25f5328b Gary Atkinson replied to the topic 'unable to allocate fetch buffer' TCL error in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/unable-to-allocate-fetch-buffer-tcl-error/#post-77625 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:36:16 -0500 If a dispList was not being returned why does it not fail when I resend?

]]> 0 e2069b5c26f71ec38db2a8b7afc5c07f Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Problem with ENV in upoc in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/problem-with-env-in-upoc/#post-77617 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:28:56 -0500 Charlie-

Question for ya.  By coding in this manner if sqlitePath is also used another thread in same process the value will be changed correct?  In my situation this ok, but in another situation this would be bad.  

I still wonder if this is not a bug inside CL  ðŸ˜›

Gary

]]> 0 af4666ff4f57bb2a84de938114151f6e Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Problem with ENV in upoc in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/problem-with-env-in-upoc/#post-77614 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:50:12 -0500 I did have HciConnName on a different, but even after moving to same line it didn’t help.  added using evn in start up didnt help either.  Here is code snippet of what I am doing:

Code:

[ - - - - - - LOG MESSAGE FROM:
[LOG NOTE: TEST/tpsCrispDSQuery Fri Dec 14 07:47:17 EST 2012] WARNING: Failed to set 'sqlitePath' in START…Read more

]]> 0 c2bdcddb8c5c4d0102a8126494176ac5 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Problem with ENV in upoc in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/problem-with-env-in-upoc/#post-77612 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:48:18 -0500 Yes its a “regular” UPOC (if there is thing :)) in an hciengine process.  The process is only used for sqlite processing.  There is no other code changing env in the process.  It’s really weird becuase it only happens sometimes and when I replay the errored messages the error does not occur.  One thing I tried is to declare the variable path in…Read more

]]> 0 f4352c59a3854b89e27fc0147ab9ed4c Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Help with Keyed List Arguments in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/help-with-keyed-list-arguments/#post-77533 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:29:39 -0500 yep {} worked!

]]> 0 5addd65718d5d98a8017e58dbfaf4a18 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic 5.8 testing tool in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/5-8-testing-tool/#post-77535 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:55 -0500 No I fixed the quote issue  ðŸ˜†   A coworker is having issues running anything through tester.  I think he is over a vpn.  Could that be it?

]]> 0 d2acc4fb2f5abc41fdf3e61a796c2a5b Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Removing hosts from the selection drop-down box in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/removing-hosts-from-the-selection-drop-down-box/#post-77528 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:42:30 -0500 check your client.ini

]]> 0 f9fe152db6d3d1b1294d5cd65fa5bcba Gary Atkinson replied to the topic How do you auto generate daily idx and msg files in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-auto-generate-daily-idx-and-msg-files/#post-77383 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:54:14 -0400 I don’t know if it works on windows.  I used it on a unix box.  Try setting it up as a schedule task.  You try using a batch file.

]]> 0 1ac2bf0eb249c72e44d60f8c93896890 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic How do you auto generate daily idx and msg files in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-auto-generate-daily-idx-and-msg-files/#post-77381 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:55:29 -0400 create a file, like crontab_entry.  Then to run “crontab crontab_entry” from the unix prompt.  This put what you have in the file into cron memory.  I like to create a file incase someone gets fancy and messes up with crontab -e or just runs crontab with no filename  ðŸ™„

]]> 0 eb94bed4619985dbf1b3dd0651caad4a Gary Atkinson replied to the topic How do you auto generate daily idx and msg files in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-auto-generate-daily-idx-and-msg-files/#post-77379 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:49:57 -0400 ..and I just remembered one thing about that perl script.  The way the regex is written to find the thread name from Netconfig is a bit weird.  If you have two thread names that have the same/similar name, like conn_1_test and conn_1_prod, then only one thread name will be picked up.  I found this out the hard way along with the 15 character limit…Read more

]]> 0 2419e88601891abb89b890ec80e102bb Gary Atkinson replied to the topic How do you auto generate daily idx and msg files in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-auto-generate-daily-idx-and-msg-files/#post-77376 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:34:50 -0400 On 5.8 there an auto save option much like the process history log save option.  If you are on an earlier version there is perl script in the contrib directory that works will.  I think its called hcicyclesavemsg or something like that.  You can set it up to work from cron.

]]> 0 8f07dc0207af2b2113dc3fbc51f4d6de Gary Atkinson replied to the topic creating a list of hl7 escaped characters in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/creating-a-list-of-hl7-escaped-characters/#post-77218 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:44:31 -0400 Yep Charlie that what I was attempting to do.  I ended up do an regexp instead.

]]> 0 8f903e53d71afa6bc4ea30a269cf53b5 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic creating a list of hl7 escaped characters in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/creating-a-list-of-hl7-escaped-characters/#post-77215 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:41:14 -0400 Follow up question–>

how can I get lsearch to work with this list using the whole msg as a string?

Code:

set escaped_chars  [list F S T R E]
set chkmsg [crange $msg 9 end]
if {[lsearch $escaped_chars $chkmsg] == 1} {
 do something here....
}

always returns -1 :cry:

]]> 0 84bb710c768271a289fe7529d8611468 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sqlite locks errors and other good stuff... in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sqlite-locks-errors-and-other-good-stuff/#post-77184 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:16:29 -0400 Agreed but sqlite is free  ðŸ™‚

]]> 0 e5805e8323f30a8236661b507987894b Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sqlite locks errors and other good stuff... in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sqlite-locks-errors-and-other-good-stuff/#post-77182 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:07:09 -0400 In our case we will be writing to and selecting from several processes.  We ended up writing our own package and handled the locking and errors inside the package.

]]> 0 36d50c2bdb209670cc5890aed08369bd Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Sqlite locks errors and other good stuff... in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/sqlite-locks-errors-and-other-good-stuff/#post-77178 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:10:24 -0400 What do you do if a timeout is reached?

]]> 0 29c7e51d8a71fe14ff8c6a81037aae13 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic IF data fetch produced multiple values in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/if-data-fetch-produced-multiple-values/#post-66377 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:33:47 -0400 Not a problem.  Good Luck!

]]> 0 74b96e8d262b55b4bff0e1b8adf12350 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic IF data fetch produced multiple values in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/if-data-fetch-produced-multiple-values/#post-66375 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:09:42 -0400 You could also try to go back to the vendor and tell them “hey your not following the standard” and see where that gets ya.  I have been down that route before with no luck.  I have attached the proc I have used before when I did xlate work, its arg driven (use at your own risk, yada yada yada…) 8)
GL

]]> 0 19bc387c7cd67bc607bec9c406198bf3 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic IF data fetch produced multiple values in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/if-data-fetch-produced-multiple-values/#post-66373 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:21:02 -0400 add in pre-proc before translation and change the & to T.  Run message through translation.  In post-proc change T back to &.  I use a table to make this easier to maintain.  table of segs and fields to check for “&”

]]> 0 67c838a44b886bc9d4e5ccfa88c490da Gary Atkinson replied to the topic closing sqlite db in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/closing-sqlite-db/#post-77067 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:23:39 -0400 well don’t I feel stupid now !  ðŸ˜³  thx  8)

]]> 0 2a18eade83c7b845410af1705c75db49 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Multiple interates in a xlate & order of segments in var in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/multiple-interates-in-a-xlate-order-of-segments-in-var/#post-77004 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:49:06 -0400 I would take out the pathcopies, where you have multiple in one copy.  pathcopies always messed things up for me, so I did field by field copies  8)

]]> 0 4a58cc336a8dd3ced32ee890e03d68a3 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic measurement conversion in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/measurement-conversion/#post-76965 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:22:05 -0400 LOL, those were numbers from a test case  ðŸ˜† Thanks for the tip on using format command.

]]> 0 71d4a8e6276b619b23d5419715288ae4 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Threads per Procees Name in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/threads-per-procees-name/#post-76986 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:18:36 -0400 I think it depends on our your volume and complexity of intergration.  We break out threads into mulitple process for performance reasons.

]]> 0 83c2d6eb8195dd9a1529bc0e35794f97 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic measurement conversion in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/measurement-conversion/#post-76962 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:03:51 -0400 duh I was thinking it was more complicated than that 😳 Is there a tcl command to only allow two decimal points in a number?  Like 100.54545 turns into 100.54

]]> 0 97bb25cbfa87695daa75ed89d614478f Gary Atkinson replied to the topic splitting a text report in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/splitting-a-text-report/#post-76709 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:35:50 -0400 Loop through all the OBX:5 for the string “ADDENDUM” and use OBX:5 as your iterate variable for the OBXgrp.  If you find “ADDENDUM” then do your copy of the OBX.  As long as all of the “stuff” you don’t want is not in the obxs below “ADDENDUM” I believe this will work.  8)

]]> 0 f00d0fbb0490909fd6096c7a1b6ec1c9 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Strip out "***" from string in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/strip-out-from-string/#post-75247 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:53:08 -0400 yep that worked. thx  ðŸ˜†

]]> 0 243299a837cc2e34a32d0fce676c725d Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Strip out "***" from string in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/strip-out-from-string/#post-75246 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:49:28 -0400 I tried string map too, doesn’t error but doesn’t qualify either.  Here is an example string that contains the *** in which I want removed.

Code:

*** Preliminary Report ***.br.brInterpreted by:   Elder,M.D. , David M.brTranscribed by:  JC     09/19/2011 14:19

]]> 0 1b66969377ef1ae6b6ca52059cc8a2fc Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Dynamically Load Tables in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/dynamically-load-tables/#post-65875 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:18:24 -0400 Actually an example proc that does the “whole thing” as you described.  Grab the file…check for modification etc etc  ðŸ˜†

]]> 0 15e52fb0c778bcaa1f6716deb25c0077 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Dynamically Load Tables in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/dynamically-load-tables/#post-65873 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:58:45 -0400 would anyone have any Tcl code they would be willing share that uses the csv tcl package as Charlie has described above?

]]> 0 da547c2acba65b6b87044b2123c48749 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Create A17 Message in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/create-a17-message/#post-73827 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:20:06 -0500 Just create a custom schema and used that in outbound part of the xlate.

]]> 0 ba0c949407169664292b75cdbe377370 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Cloverleaf comparison with Ensemble in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cloverleaf-comparison-with-ensemble/#post-73614 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:14:38 -0500 Oh will add you have to been familiar with object oriented programming to really use Ensemble to it’s full.  Using studio is a pain, esp since you can’t indent your code!  I thought TCl was much easier to learn then Cache or Objectscript…

]]> 0 46ac9063f38410dbb4475cb82464b6e2 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Cloverleaf comparison with Ensemble in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/cloverleaf-comparison-with-ensemble/#post-73613 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:11:10 -0500 I am being moved from CL to Ensemble at my facility.  The biggest issue I have is it is like a big black box of objects.  Its hard to hack things where as CL is like a open book and you can create your own story.

]]> 0 d68bbb3f71476b640b91585ad0ba0d28 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic phone format in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/phone-format/#post-73042 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:20:18 -0400 thx guys

]]> 0 d3517928e90e65efe0b6ecb519edf87d Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Remove active nulls from an entire HL7 message in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/remove-active-nulls-from-an-entire-hl7-message/#post-72649 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:09:13 -0400 One there is way to have Mckesson not send the data this way, I know because I foght this battle before with them  8)   If they will not do this you set-up a pre-proc tcl and do a regsub on the whole msg and replace all “” with nothing.  I am not sure why Mckesson does this as the double quotes are only supposed to be for deletes and not nulls.…Read more

]]> 0 bceb7a57a3492dfe4034cfcbf6c94898 Gary Atkinson replied to the topic Problem with CONCAT of repeating OBX field to single field in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/problem-with-concat-of-repeating-obx-field-to-single-field/#post-72430 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:11:40 -0400 I thought you wanted to take multiple OBX:5 fields into multiple OBX segments.

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