Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Placeholder external ids - improperly formatted user arguments?

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-10-06, at 3:12 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Try any of:
> 
>       $<patient_comm::homephone::>$
> 
> and
> 
>       $<patient_comm::homephone::9999>$                               (to set 
> the max length to 9999)
> 
> This is what gmMacro.py sayeth about the format:
> 
>       # those must satisfy the pattern "$<name::args::(optional) max string 
> length>$" when used
> 
> across the top of the relevant placeholder list.

1) under the above logic, the lack of a terminal :: in the following

        $<gender_mapper::Male//Female//Transg>$

should be argued to not work, yet it does. So…

2) when a placeholder is not commented in gmMacro.py as supporting any 
arguments, and even when it does not stand to reason that a person would desire 
to insert arguments (or character limitations), are you suggesting that all of 
the following (barring bugs) can insert empty arguments and empty formatting 
plus minus character limits and *should* work?

        $<firstname::>$
        $<firstname::::>$
        $<firstname::::9999>$
        $<firstname:://::9999>$

3) anyhow, the following *still* don't work which does not surprise me, given 1)


        & home phone $<patient_comm::homephone::>$\\
        & home phone $<patient_comm::homephone::9999>$\\

which each result in:

        home phone error with placeholder [< patientcomm :: homephone :: 9999 >]
        home phone error with placeholder [< patientcomm :: homephone ::>]

??

Appended are

- the complete chunk of code for patient identification (in the template in 
question)
- a screenshot showing that yes, the channel homephone actually does exist in 
the database
- a screenshot of the resulting portion of the resulting PDF

I even tried quoting homephone:

        & home phone $<patient_comm::'homephone'::9999>$ \\

-- Jim

\begin{tabular}{ l | l | }
  \cline{2-2}
  re & $<lastname>$, $<title>$ $<firstname>$ 
($<gender_mapper::Male//Female//Transg>$, born $<date_of_birth::%Y %B %d>$) \\
   & $<adr_number::home>$ $<adr_street::home>$ \\
   & $<adr_location::home>$ $<adr_postcode::home>$\\
   & \\
   & home phone $<patient_comm::homephone::9999>$ \\
  \cline{2-2}
\end{tabular}