Holidays Practice Preferences

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Appt Scheduling Practice Preferences

The Appt Scheduling practice preferences enables you to set various options and defaults that impact setup in Scheduling Administration and booking appointments in NextGen® Enterprise PM. Appt Scheduling Practice Preferences Field Descriptions Hide Time Slots to the Right of the Scheduler Book You can hide time slots to the right of the scheduler book. Time Interval Overrides You can set different time increments to schedule resources at different times for doctors to perform their standard procedure. Override Scheduling Conflicts A supervisor can override scheduling conflicts by entering their credentials. Parent topic: Practice Preferences

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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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Practice Preferences for Holiday Setup

The table describes the preferences available for holidays in your practice. 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 templa

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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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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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Resources Available On Holidays

When holidays are specified in Practice Preferences, you can make a resource available for all holidays or for no holidays. You cannot select individual holidays. Open NextGen® Enterprise PM. On the Admin menu, select Scheduling Admin. The Scheduling Administration window opens. Select the Resources tab, then double-click a resource in the list. The Edit Resource window opens. Select the Available On Holidays check box. Select OK. Parent topic: Holidays Practice Preferences

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