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9401/9402 System Administrator's Guide

These steps let you assign character restrictions not available with Option 2.

1.Define your text or bar code field as shown in Chapter 2.

2.Find Option 3 on the Format Worksheet. Use this option for detailed character restrictions.

3.Write S in box R3 after 3. Write the S in the same row as the field to which you are applying restrictions.

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2General Character Restrictions

4.In box R4, list the characters you wish to accept for this field. For example, to allow only digits 1 through 5, write 12345. To allow only letters A through F, write ABCDEF. You can list a maximum of 30 characters.

Place all of the characters that apply in box R4 after S. Place quotation marks around the entire list, like this:

"123ABC"

A sample use for this option is a field on a patient record containing a patient's blood type. Acceptable characters would be A, B, O, +, or -. List them this way:

"ABO+-"

Example

Consider the example for Option 1. If you use Option 4 to copy data into the non-fixed positions (4, 5, 6), make sure that the number of characters copied is 3 and the start position in the destination field is 4.

NOTE: If you set the start position in the destination field to 1, the copied data will overwrite the fixed positions.

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