patient in your report from the PATIENT file? The attending phone number is stored in the physician’s (fictitious) DOCTOR file, the PATIENT file. not You can include the attending phone number for each patient in your report, by using a simple physician’s extended pointer at the prompt: “PRINT FIELD:” Figure 35: Relational Navigation—Example of a simple extended pointer PRINT FIELD: ATTENDING PHYSICIAN:PHONE NUMBER You can use simple extended pointers in many places in VA FileMan, including: Reports (Print Fields, Sort Criteria, Search Criteria) Editing Records (edit information in related files, just current file) not Computed Expressions COMPUTED Fields Within word-processing |Windows| The syntax for simple extended pointers is described below. Simple Extended Pointer Syntax (Short form) With simple extended pointers, there be an existing relationship based on a pointer field from the must current file to the file you are interested in. In this case, you can reference a field in a pointed-to entry by using the following syntax: pfield:element is the name (or number, preceded by #) of a pointer field in the current file. “pfield” is an element that exists in the field to which pfield points. “element” This is called the short form of extended pointer syntax. For example, since ATTENDING PHYSICIAN is a pointer field in the current file to the (fictitious) DOCTOR file, the short form of extended pointer syntax to reference the PHONE NUMBER field in the (fictitious) DOCTOR file would be: ATTENDING PHYSICIAN:PHONE NUMBER
patient in your report from the PATIENT file? The attending physician’s phone number is stored in the (fictitious) DOCTOR file, not the PATIENT file. You can include the attending physician’s phone number for each patient in your report, by using a simple extended pointer at the “PRINT FIELD:” prompt: Figure 35: Relational Navigation—Example of a simple extended pointer PRINT FIELD: ATTENDING PHYSICIAN:PHONE NUMBER You can use simple extended pointers in many places in VA FileMan, including: Reports (Print Fields, Sort Criteria, Search Criteria) Editing Records (edit information in related files, not just current file) Computed Expressions COMPUTED Fields Within word-processing |Windows| The syntax for simple extended pointers is described below. Simple Extended Pointer Syntax (Short form) With simple extended pointers, there must be an existing relationship based on a pointer field from the current file to the file you are interested in. In this case, you can reference a field in a pointed-to entry by using the following syntax: pfield:element “pfield” is the name (or number, preceded by #) of a pointer field in the current file. “element” is an element that exists in the field to which pfield points. This is called the short form of extended pointer syntax. For example, since ATTENDING PHYSICIAN is a pointer field in the current file to the (fictitious) DOCTOR file, the short form of extended pointer syntax to reference the PHONE NUMBER field in the (fictitious) DOCTOR file would be: ATTENDING PHYSICIAN:PHONE NUMBER
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