Logging into PracticeMaker
If you are starting PracticeMaker® on your host computer, or using PracticeMaker®LE, open the PracticeMaker5 folder and double-click on 1.Office Startup. You will have to enter your FileMaker database password. You will then have to login (see below).
From a Workstation
To get started from a workstation make sure that the Host/Server computer has its proper software running. Then double click on the PracticeMaker Client file. This file is preset to open PracticeMaker® with the lowest level "database" password. The screen below then opens. Note: You cannot login if the networking protocol is not TCP/IP. To learn more read the networking chapter.
Note for system administrators: If you want to open the software with a higher level of database access (such as is required to change user and administrator passwords), you need to do the following. Double-click on PracticeMaker Client and immediately...
- On Macintosh hold down the option key
- On Windows hold down the shift key
- Enter your database password in the dialog below. This is not your login password used when you first enter PracticeMaker. The password used below is given only to the purchaser of the software.
If this workstation
wants
to set its default view of the Appointment scheduler, you would
select
either List, Full or Single for the view that
you module
to open to when you navigate to it!
Click Quit if you want to quit before you log-in!
To log onto the
PracticeMaker®
network, click the blue Logon to PracticeMaker® Network. If you are having trouble getting this
workstation to see the network click the Troubleshooting button
at the upper
left. You can read more about troubleshooting on the Network
considerations
section!
Once connected to
from
a workstation, you will get the password dialog box below. Select the User
and enter the correct Password. Once successfully logged in the
software
will completely start up! To read more about setting up your login
preferences click here.
Regardless of the
method used to log-in, either on the host or from a workstation, after
a Full
startup you will end up at the Main Menu of Patients, as seen here!
From this screen you create a New
Patient Record, Find a Patient Record and other functions.