Practice Preferences for Holiday Setup

Field	Description
Suspend Appointment Scheduling	Select the checkbox to prevent appointments from being scheduled on the holiday. The providers are not available for appointment search for the holiday or for a multiple-day event chain that includes the holiday. You can override this setting for a specific provider from the Scheduling Administration window in NextGen® Enterprise PM.
Apply Holiday to These Resources	Select the providers that you want to create template exceptions for based on the holiday information. After the template exceptions are created, the appointment slot information is updated only after the nightly process runs or after the process is manually run.
Apply Category To Resource's Templates	Select the category to apply to the time slots that are within the company holiday date and time range. If you do not choose a category, the existing categories that are present in the resource's templates are removed, and no category is assigned.
Stop BBP	Select the checkbox to prevent the NextGen® Background Business Processor scheduler jobs from running packages on the holiday. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download latest User Guide for NextGen Background Business Processor. You can override this setting for a specific schedule from NextGen® Background Business Processor.

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Configure Providers as Available On Holidays

When you set holidays in practice preferences, you can make a provider available for all holidays or for no holidays. You cannot select individual holidays. In NextGen® Enterprise PM, select Admin > Scheduling Admin. The Scheduling Administration window opens. Select the Resources tab, and then double-click a resource in the list. In the Edit Resource window, select the Available On Holidays checkbox, and then select OK. Parent topic: Set Up Practice Preferences for Holidays

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Set Up Practice Preferences for Holidays

The Appointment Scheduler and NextGen® Background Business Processor can recognize your practice's holiday schedule. By entering the holidays that your practice observes, you specify dates and times when appointments are not allowed and that NextGen® Background Business Processor jobs should not run. Holidays affect the ability to search future appointments and check for appointment conflicts, as well as scheduling jobs in NextGen® Background Business Processor. To open the Practice Preferences window, do one of the following: In NextGen® Enterprise PM, select Admin > > Preferences > Practice. In File Maintenance, select Master Files > System > Practices, double-click a practice name, and then select Preferences. From Preference List, select Holidays. To add a holiday, select the menu icon, and then select New. To modify a holiday, double-click the holiday in the list. The Holidays window opens. Enter holiday-related information in the required fields: Description, Start Date, End Date

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Holiday Practice Preferences Descriptions

The following table provides descriptions for the fields found in Holiday Practice Preferences. Field Description Description Enter a name for the holiday. Start Date Enter the date that the holiday starts. End Date Enter the date that the holiday ends. Start Time Enter the time that the holiday starts. End time Enter the time that the holiday ends. Suspend Appointment Scheduling Select the check box to prevent appointments from being scheduled on the holiday. If someone tries to schedule a resource on a holiday, a message informs that the date is a global holiday and the resource cannot be scheduled. Also, the resource is not available for Appointment Search Ahead for the holiday or for a multiple-day event chain that includes the holiday. When you select this check box, you can select additional resource and category options. You can override this setting for a specific resource in the Scheduling Admin in NextGen® Enterprise PM. Stop BBP Select the check box to prevent the BBP schedu

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Holidays Practice Preferences

The Appointment Scheduler and the NextGen® Background Business Processor can recognize your holiday schedule. By entering the holidays that your practice observes, you specify dates and times that appointments should not be allowed and that Business Background Process (BBP) jobs should not be run. Holidays affect Appointment Search Ahead, Appointment Conflict Checking, and the NextGen® Background Business Processor Job Scheduler. Set Up Holiday Practice Preferences Holiday Practice Preferences Descriptions Resources Available On Holidays Parent topic: Practice Preferences

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Configuring NextGen® Background Business Processor

You must meet the following requirements for NextGen® Background Business Processor configuration: The .NET Framework v4.6.2 is installed on your computer The NextGen® Background Business Processor Engine Service is installed on your computer The NextGen® Background Business Processor security rights is configured in the System Administrator application The NextGen® Background Business Processor preferences is configured in NextGen® Background Business Processor. The enterprise and practice for which NextGen® Background Business Processor functions are selected Note: Running NextGen® Enterprise PM processes in the background can be very demanding on the capabilities of your servers. Scheduling NextGen® Background Business Processor packages to run in NextGen® Enterprise PM helps. However, if you overload your servers with processes that run simultaneously, you may be dissatisfied with the results. NextGen Healthcare suggests that you experiment with scheduling NextGen® Background Busin

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Scheduling Administration

Scheduling Administration is an important function in NextGen® Enterprise PM. The Scheduling Administration creates the Appointment Book window and helps you schedule appointments for patients in a practice. Note: When you select the Enable Enterprise Appointment Scheduling option in Practice Preferences window, the Scheduling Admin option on the Admin menu displays the following two options: Enterprise Practice The following tabs are available in the Scheduling Administration window: Classes Resources Events Event Chains Categories Weekly Templates Daily Templates For scheduling appointments on the practice level using the Appointment Search Ahead window, you must complete the configuration for the practice in Practice Scheduling Administration for each practice. For searching an appointment at the enterprise level from the Enterprise Appointment Search Ahead window, you must complete the configuration for the practices of an enterprise both in Practice Scheduling Administration and E

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