Stream: shorthand
Topic: Visual Studio Code language extension
Catherine Hosage Norman (Dec 04 2021 at 03:20):
I am using FHIR v 4.6. the VS code extension does not fully recognize the resources. It can find SubstanceDefinition for autocompletion, but cannot find the definition or link to the documentation. Is there a setting that needs to be set? If not is there a date when 4.6 will be fully supported?
Chris Moesel (Dec 06 2021 at 14:18):
Hi @Catherine Hosage Norman. If I recall correctly, I think "Find Definition" only works for items you've defined in your own project -- so I would not expect "Find Definition" to find the R5 SubstanceDefinition. As for the "Open FHIR Documentation" action, I think that currently only works for R4 -- but I agree that we should update it to support other versions of FHIR (R4B and R5). I've logged this as vscode-language-fsh#34. We don't currently have a date set for supporting this, as we've already planned ahead the next two weeks. We may be able to look at it after that.
I expect you know this, but while the VS Code extension does not fully support FHIR 4.6.0, SUSHI does -- so this should not block development of FHIR 4.6.0 IGs. It just means that some helpful features of the extension won't work (so you'll need to find the docs yourself, for example).
Catherine Hosage Norman (Dec 06 2021 at 20:22):
Chris,
Thanks for the update. I had misinterpreted the objective of "Find Definition" I thought it would find the definition of the resource, but finding the definition of my objects is great. My head was not there. I have been opening the documentation in the browser; however, I like the convenience of doing it with vscode.
David Pyke (Dec 06 2021 at 20:51):
I really have to read through the docs on the extension. I had no idea you could do documentation lookups with it.
Chris Moesel (Dec 06 2021 at 21:00):
Yeah. But only for the core FHIR resources (and as noted above, only for R4 at the moment).
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
