Stream: implementers
Topic: all day appointments
Yagami L (Apr 12 2021 at 17:58):
Hi all. What is the best way to handle all-day appointments?
We are creating appointments from outlook events. Some of these appointments are marked as "all day" and we don't know the right way to handle them (because of the time zone issue), both as data and in UI.
We considered two options.
- Mark appointments with an "all day" extension and act accordingly in our EHR.
- Use the time zone of the location where the doctor is based, with the problem that if the doctor sees the appointment from another time zone it will come out incorrectly.
Any idea, please, thanks.
René Spronk (Apr 13 2021 at 06:46):
Instead of populating start and or end, one could use Appointment.minutesDuration. Like -1 or 999 this would be a workaround with a special value (24 * 60), because the appointment won't really take that amount of minutes. I'd be looking to see if serviceType or appointmentType could be used to indicate an "all day appointment"
Yagami L (Apr 13 2021 at 14:43):
Thank you @René Spronk !
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
