Diasend automatic clinic contact script

[Bill Stewart]

If you have a PC I have a batch file that will ask you whether you want to inform the clinic that you have put data up.

This is because I cannot be bothered to phone the clinic and leave a message

I like things simple

batch building vbs available for anyone who wants it

 

[mikeyB]

I can't be bothered to switch the PC on, the heating isn't on in that room. Phone's easier.🙂

 

[Bill Stewart]

When the pc is on the room warms and you would have it on to do the upload anyway alternatively turn it off after upload and then... the phone is in another room and the number is in your phone book in a drawer somewhere and the reading glasses are by the bed. You Maybe right it's just too much work to do the automation thing after all.

 

[trophywench]

Well I don't use Diasend as it happens - however what the hell is a batch file? You use the term like everyone knows what it is!

 

[Bill Stewart]

I you use a pc for a while you may remember dos (disk operating system) the remnants of this is a thing in your machine called CMD.EXE a black text window where you can do simple tasks like get a directory listing or delete a problematic file that windows will not touch. I use it a lot when repairing machines. The batch file is a file that speaks to the cmd.exe program and carries out tasks for us to save our fingers and all the typing. The file I have starts the diasend program and when the program is exited continues to ask you if you want to send an email and then uses primitive code from deep in the windows operating system to get the email send for you then it closes. Batch files are great for repetitive tasks renaming all your pictures or mp3 files to a more sensible names,and stuff like that. I am also sure that post prandial is something we say that non diabetics are unaware of - sorry for the confusion (unintended). If you use an uploader to send data to your clinic and would like to email the clinic automatically when you do so I can render a batch file for that purpose for you, but only for a PC Iam not so hot with mac commandline and scripting files.

 

[trophywench]

You've lost me again LOL - yes I recall DOS on a word processor that our office used but I never used it - the computers the brokers (me) used were programmed with an in-house broking system. We generated correspondence and could communicate with other offices throughout the UK on them but not anyone outside our comany. We had another ancient machine even then, which ran off a Winchester whatever that was on which we ran Lotus 1-2-3 My husband had a PC he used for his printing business that could be connected to the internet once they invented it at our house and since then we've been using it for all sorts of things.

We had an IT dept and a computer room that was AC and equipped with Halon extinguishers - all mod cons LOL

Then after a mergeover with another large broking house, and updating, we got the internet at work - woo hoo. Still used the in-house system though alongside the normal Windows suite, which was actually a purely an enhancement and we had to hard copy anything done on Windows, since it didn't speak to the bespoke system so wouldn't appear on the Client files otherwise.

I've never ever needed to know anything whatever about how the things work, still don't and at 67 see no advantage of learning !

My pump software can email my downloads to anywhere I want or need anyway - hence I have no need of Diasend.

Presumably anyway you can save results downloaded to Diasend as a document on your PC, and just send it as an attachment in an email anyway, and if you do it often you can save the text of the email the same and copy/paste it onto the blank email, then just add the Diasend doc.

I rarely need to send my downloaded info to my clinic anyway between appointments - perhaps others don't, either?

 

[SB2015]

I wouldn't want to send an email automatically to diabetes team if am downloading to Diasend. The data can then just sit there, with them having access if necessary, and I am happy that I email only when I need help.

 

[Bill Stewart]

@SB2015 the batch file asks if you want to send, and does the email if you want.
@trophywench the diaasend stuff is just to upload to the site where we can look at the data in a nicer way and if its connected to the clinic they can too... the issue is that they have to be contacted to tell them when data is uploaded and that's by phone call or email.. The batch file approach just simplifies it....

Thats all.