Configuring the Content Update Server Utility

Before you begin

The Content Update Utility allows you to:

  • See a list of workstations on your network, and whether they require updating.
  • Indicate whether you will allow workstation computers to download MDref package content to them (as required) from your server.
  • Indicate whether you will allow workstation computer to background process MDref package content (explained in the table following).

Procedure

  1. Locate and double-click the MedicalDirector Maintenance icon on your desktop. The MedicalDirector Maintenance window appears.
  2. Select the Database Tasks > MedicalDirector Clinical menu item.
  3. Double-click the Content > Update icon.

    If this is the first time you have tried to run the Content Update Utility during this session of working in MedicalDirector Maintenance, you will be prompted to select a Configuration, and enter your Username and Password.
  4. The Content Update Server Utility appears. This window displays computers on your network that either:
    • Require an update of Clinical content, as flagged with the icon, or
    • Do not require an update of Clinical content, as flagged with the icon.

  5. Use the following table to configure the Content Update Server Utility to your needs
    Features of the Content Update Server Utility
    Settings menu > Disable Content Update This completely disables any content updates from being downloaded by your workstation computers. If you were to access the Content Update utility from a workstation computer whilst this setting is enabled, the following window would indicate that updates have been disabled.
    Settings menu > Disable Background Processing MDref updates are transferred from your Server computer to your Workstation whenever you do one of the following on your Workstation;

    Log on to Clinical.

    Open a patient's record.

    Access Product Information, Consumer Medicines Information, or NPS.

    Access the Pathology, Cytology, or X-ray Request modules.

    Under normal circumstances, the process is as follows:

    The user accesses Product Information (for example).

    Clinical detects that an update for Product Information is available, and immediately downloads the update to your workstation and installs the update.

    If at this time other content updates are discovered, they are also transferred to your workstation and saved in a temporary folder for installing later (when you next access those particular components of MedicalDirector Clinical).

    This process of downloading extra content updates to your workstation and saving them for later is referred to as 'background processing'. The Disable Background Processing option prevents these extra content updates from being transferred to, and stored on, your workstation(s). Such updates will still be transferred and installed later, but only when the user accesses a relevant component in Clinical.
    Show Hidden Computers check box You can hide a computer from the list within the Content Update Sever utility window by right-clicking the entry and selecting Hide Computer from the menu that appears. This check box displays hidden computers. Hidden computers are displayed in grey highlight, as shown in the example at right.

    To reveal a hidden computer, ensure you have ticked this check box, right-click the computer and select Show Computer from the menu that appears.



    Note:
    the list of computers detected by this utility includes any current (or obsolete)

    computers that have ever accessed MedicalDirector Clinical. It is not possible for the Content Update Server Utility to determine if these are still being used by MedicalDirector Clinical, or even if they are still in use at your Practice.

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