RADAR TUTORIALS PART-10

SAVING AND RECALLING THE CASES

 

Saving and Recalling Cases

RADAR allows you to save and recall (open) your cases at a later time. Clipboard cases are saved into one big file, unless you specify otherwise. The default name of the file in which your clipboards are saved is REPERT.da1. This is called a catalog. You can create other catalogs so you can categorize your cases in a way that makes sense to you.

Opening, closing and other tasks you may wish to perform on a clipboard are done through a pop up menu accessed through the right mouse button. The following table explains each selection in the pop-up menu and the results you will receive by making that selection.

Menu Choices

Explanation

Change Clipboard Name

Change the name of the clipboard from the default, or from one that the user assigned.

Open this clipboard

Open the clipboard on which the user right clicked.

Clear this clipboard

Erases the information currently in the symptom clipboard. It does not effect information which may already be saved.

Cut the clipboard contents

Removes the information in the symptom clipboard and moves it to the Windows clipboard.

Copy the clipboard contents

Makes a copy of the symptom clipboard and places it in the Windows clipboard

Paste to this clipboard

Pastes the contents of the Windows clipboard to the symptom Clipboard

Clear all clipboards

Erases the information from all clipboards. It does not affect information which may already be saved.

Save this Case

Saves the current clipboards to an assigned name saved in a catalog.

Recall a Case

Opens a previously saved set of clipboards.

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Menu Choices Explanation

Delete a Case

Removes a specified case from the current catalog. Once a case is deleted, it cannot be recalled, unless you have made a backup file of your cases.

Open another catalog of cases.

Opens a different collection of cases stored in a different catalog. The catalog is the actual Windows file into which many cases are stored.

Create another catalog of cases.

Allows the user to create a new catalog in which to store cases.

Open Patient File

Import from WinChip

Export to WinChip

These menu choices all relate to WinChip, which is explained in a later section of this manual.

Import a Case File

Export a Case File

Allows the user to export a repertorization in a text file

Allows the user to import a repertorization from a Case text file

General Information about Saving and Recalling Cases in RADAR

Individual cases are not saved in individual files. They are saved together in a file called REPERT.da1. RADAR refers to this as a catalogue. You can create additional catalogues as well. For example, you may with to save your clients alphabetically in a separate catalogue for clients whose last names begin with letters A-D, etc. See page 81 for procedures to create new catalogues.

If you are placing symptoms into the clipboard and your computer system crashes or gets turned off accidentally, RADAR will automatically produce a back up copy of your clipboards when you restart RADAR. This is true even if you have not yet saved the clipboard. You will notice when you restart RADAR that there are symptoms in the clipboard. The name of the backup clipboard is SOS. If you have saved the clipboard, RADAR will still name the backup SOS. If you made changes to the clipboard after naming it, the SOS file may be more current than the saved version.

If you have an SOS file in your list of case names at the time of the crash, RADAR may choose to name the file LAST.

It is important to note, however, that if you place symptoms in the clipboard and then recall an existing patient clipboard without saving the data in the clipboard, the symptoms in the clipboard will be erased from memory. That is, you will overwrite the rubrics currently in the clipboard. No back up copy is available in this situation. The SOS backup copy is only available after an unplanned or improper shut down.

If you accidentally delete a case from a catalogue, there is no way to get it back unless you have made a back up copy of your files.

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To recall a saved case:

1.

Press the right mouse button while the mouse is over one of the clipboards. Select Recall a Case from the pop-up menu. -or- Choose File, Recall a Case The Recall Case window appears.

Saved cases

2.

Double click the case you wish to open or begin typing the name as it appears in the list.

3.

When the name is highlighted, press Enter. The symptom clipboard icon will display the number of symptoms associated with that case.

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Click the right mouse button an any clipboard icon.

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Choose Recall a Case from the pop-up menu.

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Begin typing the letters of any case that has been saved, or click on the case you wish to open.

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Press Enter.

To delete a rubric from the clipboard:

1.

In the symptom clipboard, select the rubric you wish to delete by clicking on it.

2.

Press the delete key on the keyboard. The following dialog box appears, asking if you are certain you wish to delete the rubric from the clipboard.

3.

Click Yes or press Enter to erase the symptom.

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To save a case:

1.

Click the Right Mouse button on a clipboard. From the Pop up menu, choose Save this Case -or- Choose File, Save a case. The Save Case window appears.

2.

In the Case name box, enter the name you wish to give the case. For example, the client name. You may use spaces and upper and lower case letters.

3.

In the Case note box, enter any information you feel is important about the case.

4.

Press Enter or click OK. The case is now saved.

You may wish to delete a case from the file. Perhaps this case has been resaved into another catalogue, or is a client you haven’t seen in 10 years. You may also have exported the case to WinChip.

To delete a case:

1.

From the File menu, choose Delete a Case (Alt + F, d) -or- Click the right mouse button on a clipboard and choose Delete a Case from the Pop-up menu. The Delete Case window appears.

2.

Begin typing the name of the case you wish to delete, or click on it.

3.

Press Enter or Click OK. You will be prompted to indicate whether you really want to delete the case.

4.

Press Enter or Click Yes. The case is deleted.

Case Catalogues

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As indicated earlier, each case that is saved is stored in the same file, REPERT.da1. However, you can create new files, called Catalogues, in which to save your files. Perhaps you wish to save them alphabetically, or by year. Or, you may simply be overwhelmed by too many names in one catalogue. You can create catalogues to suit any purpose. Unlike case names, catalogue names are limited to 8 characters (letters or numbers). RADAR will automatically add the .DA1 file extension at the end of the file name. Whatever catalogue is open at the time you are saving a case is the catalogue that will contain that case you are saving. Be default, the catalog in which you were last working is the one that is open the next time you start RADAR. It is not necessary to open a catalog each time you begin working in RADAR.

To create a case catalogue:

1.

From the File menu, choose Create a New Catalogue of Cases. –-or- Right click on a clipboard icon. Select Create another catalog of cases from the Pop-up Menu. The Enter the Name of the New Catalogue dialog box appears.

2.

In the File Name box, enter a name of up to 8 characters.

3.

Press Enter. Notice title bar of the clipboard it says C:\RADAR\CASES\NEWNAME (whatever the new name is).

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From the File menu, choose Create a New Catalogue of Cases.

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Enter whatever name you wish to give the new catalogue, up to 8 characters.

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Press Enter.

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Once you have created new catalogues, you must also open them as needed.

To open a case catalogue:

1.

Open the symptom clipboard.

2.

From the File menu, choose Open Another Catalogue of Cases. The Select the Catalogue of Cases you wish to open dialog box appears.

3.

Choose the file name from the list.

4.

Press Enter, or click OK. Notice the name of the selected catalogue appears on the title bar of the symptom clipboard.

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Clear the clipboard of rubrics, if necessary.

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Enter the following rubrics into a clipboard. The numbers following the rubrics indicate the intensity of the symptom. MIND - SUICIDAL disposition – thoughts (3) MIND – SADNESS (3) MIND - SUICIDAL disposition - hanging, by (1) MIND - SENSITIVE - music, to (2) MIND - CHEERFUL - stool – after (2) MIND – VIOLENT (1) MIND – MOROSE (1) MIND – ABSENTMINDED (1) MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - anxiety; with (2) MIND - ANXIETY - conscience; anxiety of (1) MIND - CONTRADICTION - intolerant of contradiction (3) GENERALS - EVENING - 18 h - 18-21 h (1)

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Save it as Suicidal case.