The New Mobile Site

Surprisingly JK and I found that getting the hang of the JSP was not as hard as we anticipated. We do have to follow a lot of trails through the trunk, but these are not that hard to pin down. Since my last post we have almost entirely completed the Patient Search page for the mobile site. This is a huge milestone. We are now left with trying to figure out how to get the findPatient div to resize when a search is in progress. What we have done:

• Shrunk page elements to be suitable for mobile environment
• Brought language bar up to rest immediately under the page info (fixing the display problem on the iPhone)
• Shortened the user login bar
• Shortened the search field
• Eliminated unnecessary whitespace (breaks, etc.)
• Coded the JavaScript to scroll the findPatient and createPatient fields
• Made small formatting tweaks to make things cleaner overall

Now as we approach the end of the semester we hope to get the patientSearch page done, at least, so that we have something concrete to show in our final presentation. Regardless of what we get done before then, we will be continuing into the summer. Hopefully we will soon begin on the patient summary page.

Long Since Due Update

After some discussion and planning between us and Ben Wolfe, we have settled on a definite course of action from here out. We are going to be designing an entirely new mobile interface, but we will be working one page at a time. We're starting out with the patient search and patient summary pages. We will be designing first and then coding these pages in JSP. We are taking special care to order the elements by importance to the user base (primarily clinicians). Since we have a presentation coming up, we are working on a mock-up layout that we can present.

Location of Pages in the Project

I did some digging and found this article on the OpenMRS website. It was not that hard from there to find the location of our web pages: http://dev.openmrs.org/browser/openmrs/trunk/web/WEB-INF/view.