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Release
Notes
In
Report Templates you will notice some new options.
The default is to extract and present the information
online with ePACT.net. The online functionality
is unchanged.
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If
you click on either of the Offline Requesting
options - the green border highlights the Offline
Requesting Box and further choices become available.
Currently for Offline Requests only a standard
set of fields are available. The options to add
different fields, set record limits, the Patient
Denominator and Parent are disabled.
Choose
the Period, Organisation and BNF Summary levels
you require and enter a name for your request.
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The Summary levels when requesting offline will
not allow Accumulated options; the period summary
level will currently only allow months.
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Notice also that the Summary Level options now
respond to the levels selected in the Data Selector
- whether you are in Online or Offline mode. The
Summary Level options now respond to tags as well.
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Your
ePACT.net client will detect if your browser is
capable of using the new ePACT Downloader and
will enable or disable some offline options as
appropriate. Notice in the examples above the
Run Offline for Data Export check box is disabled.
If your Internet Explorer Browser does not have
the JAVA 1.4 plugin installed, the option to run
requests offline for data download is not available.
Full
instructions and support for the installation
of Sun Microsystems Java 1.4 will be issued when
appropriate.
In
the example below the ePACT.net is running in
Internet Explorer with Java 1.4 installed and
enabled. The option to run Offline for Data Export
is enabled.
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Viewing and Downloading
your information.
Reports
can be viewed through the Electronic Reporting
Information Centre (ERIC). Documentation about
ERIC can be found elsewhere.
To
collect your offline data export files you will
need to logon to a new ePACT service - the Downloader.
You will be able to use your current ePACT and
Prescribing Toolkit user ids.

In the Available for Download area of the screen
the name and number of your requests are shown.
In general you can choose to download one at a
time or all the files. There will be an option
to download overnight or out of office hours.
If you no longer require any files you can delete
them
The
journal area is mostly to help the support staff
if you experience any problems.
You
can use this screen to change your password for
ePACT.net and Prescribing Toolkit.
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