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Click menu strip "Tools".
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Click Tools Drop Down and select Configure My Desktop.
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On the center column for your desktop is where you may want to add this new field. This is only a suggestion of where to add. You can also make it a secondary control to toggle to if you wish to keep your messages on one screen and your Message Center on the Secondary radio button. On this instruction we are adding to your Primary view only.
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Choose magnifying glass and then from resulting list choose Message Counts from the list of items to add.
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Click "Position" if needed to see additional items on this panel. Insure your Refresh rates are all sent to the same amount of time. 60 is the recommended, This is to ensure all of your dashboard refreshes at the same time. As seen here, The messages above and Visit notes would refresh at a 300 seconds where as Message Counts would refresh at 60. All should be the same for best performance.
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Click "OK" to save your changes to your Dashboard.
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Once your dashboard has refreshed, you will see the Message Center added to your desktop view. Next will add items to your Message Center by clicking on the Magnifying glass at the end of the Message Center.
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Type "31" or your site number to view message groups associated with your site.
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Click "Search"
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When the list comes up, choose any from resulting search you wish to add to your Message Center to have access to... you must be part of the group in order for messages to show. If you are not part of the assigned group, you will see a red pop up stating you do not have access to that message group. You can choose multiple from this list in this step.
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Click "OK" once you have chosen the group or groups of messages you wish to add. Any group(s) you choose will show at the top.
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You will now see the message group listed. To open the group, click on the Blue hyperlink (name of the group) All messages in this group will be viewable on screen for you to view.
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Example of the list. Click on the blue date hyperlink to open the message. Click on the Blue Patient hyperlink (blurred out) to open the patient demographics.
