Active Projects
Overview
This is a listing of currently important active projects. This is a place to see what's going on, and also a place to see where help is needed by other developers and testers. These are kind of ordered by how important they are to OpenEMR's future.
Wiki
We have just migrated the wiki to mediawiki. Below describes the active projects in this wiki migration that still need to be completed.
License
Change to GPL. All the FDL stuff needs to be changed to GPL. Places I notice this:
- bottom left icon
- bottom page text link
- bottom page during editing of a page
- When users are requesting a new account.
Seems like most of these can simply be configured near bottom of the LocalSettings.php file
Internationalization
This has been a bit more difficult than anticipated. The polyglot extension was initially considered but is no longer maintained and likely buggy. Gonna go with below manual approach described HERE
- Install/configure the following extension:
- ParserFunctions
- The ParserFunctions extensions adds some logical functions to allow use of the languages and languages/Lang templates described HERE.
- ParserFunctions
- Recruit translators
Jason B. and Brady are working on this.
Certification
A very large multi-developer project is currently underway to get CCHIT certifications and is described on the CCHIT Roadmap wiki page.
Internationalization
OpenEMR supports internationalization and multi-language clinics. Most of this are from recent modifications that got released in OpenEMR 3.1.0. Further information on the project can be found on the internationalization configuration and development wiki pages.
CAMOS module internationalization
This is basically done; now testing in cvs; when stable will include in 3.1.0 patch.
Here are the bug tracker link and the forum thread associated with this.
Date formatting
Still work to do in order to support date formats across multiple languages. Here's the forum thread discussing this.
Awaiting a Analyzer to figure out a good plan for this.
Translation database maintenance/improvement
We currently have a stable collaborative system in place to allow translation of any language. The translations are entered into a OpenEMR Translation Google Doc Spreadsheet. These instructions and scripts (README files describes the pipeline in detail) then allows conversions of the translation spreadsheet to mysql tables and allow detection and insertion of new english constants into the translation spreadsheet.
A new set of official translation tables are created approximately every 1-6 weeks depending on where we are in the release cycle.
Brady is maintaining this.
Calendar
Multi-facility bugs
Description of bugs:
- Things work great with one facility
- With two facility the bugs appear (different bugs happen with the $GLOBALS['restrict_user_facility'] turned off(default) and on)
- When $GLOBALS['restrict_user_facility'] is turned off get following behavior. In essence the calendar only shows what is set as 'default facility' in the users settings. If you choose the facility then that user won't be available. By choosing all facilities, it will actually show all appointments from all facilities, however the scrollbar display is confusing (shows the top item), and unable to schedule an appt at anything but in the scroll bar; this also screws up what you see when scrolling through new days.
- When $GLOBALS['restrict_use\r_facility'] is turned on, then only seems to work right if you place all facilities in the users settings 'Schedule facilities'. Then everything seems to work fine, but there is no option to view all facilities, which seems like should be an option. If you don' t place all facilities in the users 'schedule facilities', then you'll see other appointments at other disallowed facilties like they are on the selected on (not much of a bug since appointments shouldn' be scheduled on disallowed facilities anyways), however can only add to the allowed facility, which is good.
Seems like the bug(s) really stem from three mechanisms:
- When choose all facilities, don't then highlight the item below it; highlight them all and that have this supported when click other buttons (moving days or adding appt)
- With global restric_user_facility off (default) allow users to be scheduled at all facilities.
- With global restric_user_facility on give option to show all facilties in calendar.
Currently linked to this tracker item and this forum thread.
Awaiting a Developer to fix this bug.
Recurring appointment bugs
This problem() is discussed in this forum thread and this forum thread.
Awaiting a Tester to further document this bug behavior and make a bug report in tracker with this behavior.
General code base improvements
Clean up magic quotes, prevent sql-injection, and prepare for PHP6
Plan to pass all input data through functions in the openemr/library/formdata.inc.php file before inserting into mysql database. This is useful for following reasons:
- Will centralize input validation
- Will centralize sql-injection blocking
- Fix the escaping bugs(magic quotes) that are seen throughout OpenEMR when inputting the apostrophe character
- Will allow easy migration to php6 (since magic quotes will no longer exist in php6)
- Simplify support for other database software
- 12/01/2009: Committed a cleaner openemr/library/formdata.inc.php to CVS and will include in patch#5 for 3.1.0. Read file for details. --Bradymiller 00:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
- 12/05/2009: Committed an even cleaner openemr/library/formdata.inc.php to CVS and will include in patch#5 for 3.1.0. Read file for details. --Bradymiller 09:08, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- 12/05/2009 and 12/06/2009: Focused changes in calendar appt, calendar searching, and bookmarks to make compatible with both magic quotes settings (on or off). Files modified:
- openemr/interface/main/finder/patient_select.php
- openemr/interface/main/calendar/find_patient_popup.php
- openemr/interface/main/calendar/add_edit_event.php
- openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/default/user/ajax_search.html
- openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pnuser.php
- openemr/interface/usergroup/addrbook_list.php
- openemr/interface/usergroup/addrbook_edit.php
- --Bradymiller 11:02, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
- 12/11/2009: Changes in CAMOS to make compatible with both magic quotes settings (on or off). Files modified:
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/admin.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/ajax_save.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/content_parser.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/new.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/save.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/rx_print.php
- openemr/interface/forms/CAMOS/notegen.php
- --Bradymiller 22:47, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
- 12/21/2009: Quick conversion in the admin facilities edit page
- openemr/interface/usergroup/facility_admin.php
- --Bradymiller 09:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
quick note: Smarty cleans up its variables via pnVarCleanFromInput() function in openemr/interface/main/calendar/includes/pnAPI.php file (this function will strip slashes if needed, however doesn't escape characters for database insertion). Smarty can prepare for database commands via pnVarPrepForStore() function in openemr/interface/main/calendar/includes/pnAPI.php file (this function ca not be used with pnVarCleanFromInput() and simply adds slashes if magic quotes not on, so will need to consider securing this further in future) (both of these functions are only likely specific for calendar smarty system).
nice independent security analysis, which pertains to sql-injection.
Currently linked to this tracker item and this forum thread.
This project will be a lot of work and will involve modifications to a large amount of files. This process is currently happening slowly as we modify files(example here). However at some point this will likely become a primary multi-developer project as we get closer to the release of php6.
Configuration
Migrate configuration settings into OpenEMR program
Currently, many of the configuration settings are found in the actual source files. It will be very advantageous to migrate all configurations settings from these files into OpenEMR's mysql database. This would markedly simplify use, customization, upgrading, and patching of OpenEMR.
A proposed plan is the following:
- auto-detection of the webroot and webserverroot directories (it seems all other php projects do this, so shouldn't be hard) in the interface/globals.php file, so it doesn't need to be hard-coded.
- Create an Administration->Confiugration module to allow editing of the below settings within OpenEMR
- Migration of all configuration setting from the following files to above Administration->Configuration Module (ie. mysql database) (then could simply make a database call when need the variable. For example the globals.php file would then simply be a huge sql query to collect the configuration settings):
- interface/globals.php
- includes/config.php
- custom/clickoptions.txt (place into current admin->lists structure)
- custom/code_types.inc.php
- custom/statement.inc.php
- library/lists.inc
- library/classes/class.ezpdf.php
- interface/billing/billing_process.php
Here is the related feature request tracker item.
Awaiting a Developer to take this project on.
User Interface Refactor
- Major clean up and refactor of the User Interface experience.
- Full pass internal cleanup and implementation of more AJAX for modern look and feel
- Patient centric: using demographics page as the launch pad for all patient focused information
- Use of modal windows rather that separate browser windows for all popups
- Model for plugin of customizations that does not require code changes *designed*
- Reporting look and feel standardization - *Done*
- API to support clean work flow management
- etc ...
In Progress at MI-SQUARED
Summary goals on User Interface Refactor
