[Gnumed-devel] SOAP row type 'u'

[Busser, Jim]

Presently, when including SOAP row content in documents and when wishing to 
include entries via "SimpleNotes" plugin, one must include in the row 
specification

        u

as in

        soapu

which results in a column label

        u

which does not match what is outputted in the EMR Journal, which is a question 
mark (?).

My preference is to get rid of the question mark in the EMR Journal. The first 
step would be to make it the same as what appears in the document printout 
('u') because the question mark can give the impression of uncertainty which is 
not the intended (clinical) meaning.

My question is whether it is necessary to use a symbol for this 'lack of 
assigning a soap row' or can the character be a space, which -- if accepted -- 
would require a future upgrade replacing the values of 'u' to values of ' '.

The benefit would be to avoid to depict or present, in the GI and in documents, 
'non' information.

I only don't know whether, even if the above would be agreed-to, it becomes a 
problem to try to support a 'space character'  in the template specification 
and whether instead of


        'soapu'

we would need the space to be escaped, as in

        'soap\ '

-- Jim