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After having great success with my last post, I'm now back with another question that I cannot seem to find an answer to, or if it even matters.

With our EMR, I often have multiple windows open since while I'm working on one patient, I may need to access another patient's profile (scheduling, updating information, etc). How can I make sure that PAD always selects the first window, which is the window I reserve for uploading documents into the patient's chart? If I have 6 windows open, all with the same title, process, etc, I only want it to select window 1 and go from there.

Is this possible?

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josephb61 65 on at

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I assume the EMR application is a windows gui program ? (and not a web app).

If windows app, capture the UI element for the 1st window and 2nd window, and then paste the selectors for both windows here .

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Well, therein lies the problem. It IS an application, but each window selected does not have any unique identifiers. Both return:

:desktop > window[Name="Window Name Redacted"][Process="WebMed"]

Unless I'm doing something wrong here in collecting the information. I went to 'Add UI Element', moved the box to select the entire window, and Ctrl+Left click to add it.

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Can you paste the Selector Tree screen shot here, when you click custom

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a second time - click 3 dots on the selector window and you will get a selector tree

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see if ID field or Ordinal fields have different values for he 2 windows

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This...

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arcylix 23 on at

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Window 1

Window 2

The names are identical. Am I missing something?

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Appreciate confidentiality but are these both identical ? cant tell for obvious reasons.
Theres got to be some difference no matter how miniscule 🤔

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that is a problem with them being the same.
... chances are that your EMR program has a toolbar icon, a click menu item to bring each specific window in focus to work on.
Or, a shortcut key to bring 1st, or 2nd, etc window in focus.
Suggest you check the program's help function and search for shortcut keys like that.

Did you find anything like above?

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@UK_Mike wrote:
Appreciate confidentiality but are these both identical ? cant tell for obvious reasons.
Theres got to be some difference no matter how miniscule
Unfortunately, there is zero differences in the name. Every one of them is the name of the practice and then my initials. If I switch screens (for example, go to 'Documents'), it prepends 'Documents' to the name, but I cannot rely on that because I could have documents opened in several of them.

@josephb61 wrote:

that is a problem with them being the same.
... chances are that your EMR program has a toolbar icon, a click menu item to bring each specific window in focus to work on.
Or, a shortcut key to bring 1st, or 2nd, etc window in focus.
Suggest you check the program's help function and search for shortcut keys like that.

Did you find anything like above?

There is no shortcut key to switch between the windows. Some additional information that I didn't think to mention before: When I log in, I can choose how many instances of a window I want. I usually choose 6 because I go through 6 different screens. To its credit, PAD seems to go to the last window I had used, so I suppose as long as I make it the last window of the series accessed, it should continue to work. I am not sure what to make of that, though.

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