Patient tab, Patient sub-tab, Comments pane
 | Remember, to open the Patient tab, you can do one of the following on the Patients tab: • Right-click the patient record that you are reviewing, and on the context menu that opens, click Patient Detail. • Double-click the patient record that you are reviewing. |
The Comments pane on the Patient sub-tab shows all the comments that have been added for the patient in reverse chronological order. If one or more comments are displayed in the pane, then you can right-click in the pane to open a context menu with the following options:
| | The context menu for the Comments pane is not enabled if the pane is blank. To a comment for the patient and enable this context menu, see To use the context menu for a patient (Patients tab). |
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Add Comment | Opens the Add Comment dialog box. You add a comment for the selected patient in the Add Comment field. The Comments are displayed in reverse chronological order in the pane. |
Delete Comment | Opens the Delete Comment dialog box. Click OK to delete the comment for the patient and close the dialog box. |
Copy | Copies all the information that is displayed for the selected comment to your client’s clipboard. You can then use the standard Paste commands to paste this copied information into a third-party application such as Notepad. |
Load Columns | |
Manually | Opens the Select Columns dialog box in which you can select columns that are to be shown and clear the columns that are to be hidden dynamically, or select a configuration from the list of available column configurations. This option is also available on the column header context menu for the sub-tab. Note: For information about showing and hiding columns dynamically, see To show/hide columns in a tab pane. Note: If you set column display preferences here, then you can display preferences for variants in all the variant sub-tabs and panes (with the exception of the Sample Group columns on the Sample Variant Data sub-tab on the Sample tab and the Variant pane on the Variant tab) in a single step. See To apply shared preferences or to clear all tab preferences. |
Compact | Displays the data columns on the sub-tab in a more condensed view. To toggle the display, click Compact as needed. |
<Saved Pane Configuration Name> - Saved by <User Name> | Publicly available pane configurations. The name of the user who created a pane configuration is displayed next to the configuration name. |
Load Filters | |
Manually | Opens the Filters table for the Comments pan. See To filter the data that is displayed in a tab pane. |
<Filter Template Name> - Saved by <User Name> | Opens the saved Filter template for the Comments pane. Limits the display in the pane to only the data (fields) that are defined by the template. See To filter the data that is displayed in a tab pane. |