The Merge Template Utility

How to share your templates and quick texts with others

What Mrgtmplw.exe Does

• Quarterly template and quick text update from PP

• Inspect template files with multiple practices• Does allow sharing of templates and quicktexts

between practices• Compact your template and quick text files• Update and maintain Rx templates• See PDF user guide– Merge Template Utility User’s Guide.pdf

What Mrgtmplw.exe Doesn’t Do

• Does not merge Clinical Elements• Does not merge Lab Data Elements• Does not merge Lists

Merge Template Utility

• MRGTMPLW.exe in ppart directory• Allows you to import and export templates

and associated quick text.• Uses the following files, where the nn are

digits:– Mrpnnn.*– Mrminn.*– Mrtenn.*– Mrqknn.*

Input and Output Files

– MRGTMPLW.exe takes templates and quick text from these files: Mrpn10.*, Mrmi10.*, Mrte10.*, and Mrqk10.*

– Everyone has to be out of the system when it runs– It merges the templates into these files:

Mrpn99.*, Mrmi99.*, Mrte99.*, and Mrqk99.*– Mrte99.dat, Mrte99.idx, Mrqk99.dat, Mrqk99.idx

are the active working template and quick text files in the ppart directory.

To Import Templates and QT -1

• On the system you are importing the templates from– Open the DOS prompt (Run cmd)– Navigate to the ppart directory

• Type the following:– Copy Mrpn99.* Mrpn10.*– Copy Mrmi99.* Mrmi10.*– Copy Mrte99.* Mrte10.*– Copy Mrqk99.* Mrqk10.*

To Import Templates and QT -2

• Now copy Mrpn10.*, Mrmi10.*, Mrte10.*, and Mrqk10.* to the ppart directory in the system to which you are copying the templates.

• Backup the following files in the ppart directory of the system that will receive the new templates:– Copy Mrpn99.* Mrpn99bak.*– Copy Mrmi99.* Mrmi99bak.*– Copy Mrte99.* Mrte99bak.*– Copy Mrqk99.* Mrqk99bak.*

To Import Templates and QT -3

• In the system that will receive the new templates, run MRGTMPLW.exe in the ppart directory

• Check “Select Templates to Load”• Click on “OK”

To Import Templates and QT -4

Now, click on “OK:

To Import Templates and QT -5

Check “Bring in Templates Quick Text” and highlight the template or templates you want to import.Then click on “OK”

To Import Templates and QT -6

That is all there is to it – you now have the selected templates and

their associated quick text in your system, and you can use them just as

if you created them yourself.

Export Selected Templates -1

• Make sure you have backed up the ppart directory

• Just to be sure, do it again, to another computer

• Copy these files in the ppart directory:– Copy Mrpn99.* Mrpn10.*– Copy Mrmi99.* Mrmi10.*– Copy Mrte99.* Mrte10.*– Copy Mrqk99.* Mrqk10.*

Sidebar --CTEmpty

• This is a subdirectory under ppart• It holds blank copies of all the Practice Partner

data files and their index files. • The files have the same name as the data and

index files, but have the numbers “00” in the filename, instead of “99”

• So, Mrpn00.dat is the blank file with the structure of Mrpn99.dat

Export Selected Templates -2

• Now go to the CTEmpty directory– P:\ppart> cd CTEmpty

• Overwrite your template and quicktext files with the empty counterpart files in CTEmpty– P:\ppart\CTEmpty> – Copy Mrpn00.* \ppart\Mrpn99.*– Copy Mrmi00.* \ppart\Mrmi99.*– Copy Mrte00.* \ppart\Mrte99.*– Copy Mrqk00.* \ppart\Mrqk99.*

Export Selected Templates -3• Now run the MRGTMPLW.exe in ppart directory as

described above, selecting the templates you want to export with their quicktext. This will take a while. . . .

• Your Mrqk99.* and Mrte99.* files in the ppart directory will now contain only the templates and quick texts you selected.

• Copy these files to some safe place, or run pkzip.exe on them so you can email them to a friend.

Export Selected Templates -4

• Finally, since you want your old templates back, you have to overwrite the files you just created with your original template or quick text files– Copy Mrpn10.* Mrpn99.*– Copy Mrmi10.* Mrmi99.*– Copy Mrte10.* Mrte99.*– Copy Mrqk10.* Mrqk99.*

Cleaning Up Your Templates and Quick Text with Mrgtmplw.exe

• When you load the quarterly updates to the system, if you elect to save your old templates, you will accumulate lots of templates with “Phantom Providers” that have initials of X01, X02, etc.

• This can affect performance, though not as much as you might expect, due to indexing

• You can use Mrgtmplw.exe to eliminate the templates of the phantom providers after you are sure you don’t need them.

Cleaning Up Templates

• This is done similarly to the technique for exporting selected templates above, but . . .

• After you export the templates you want into your Mrxx99.* files, you need to rename these files to Mrxx10.*, and you need to import them into a clean version of the shipping Mrxx99.* files

• Otherwise, you will not have the Letter Codes and Dot Codes in Mrqk99.dat