Hi, I am new to openEHR system. We are using archetype designer for our research. I have created some template using “ https://tools.openehr.org/designer ”. I would like to export these template in XML or OPT format, so that I can use these templates at “ https://toolkit.cabolabs.com/app/free_tools ”. …

Hi, The archetype designer has a very straightforward export option that allows you to export your template to OPT. Once you have opened a template, you can click on the export menu on the top bar. In the pop up you can click on the export button to get a dropdown of the available options. When you…

Thanks @Dileep_V_S , I saw that option, but it is giving error like " Cannot export embedded template to OPT". Also, do yo know, can you help me with exporting template in XML as well.

Hi, Not sure what that error means. If you can share the template files, I can take a look. As for exporting to XML, OPT is XML regards

Hi Yogesh, The problem here is that you are creating a template based on an ENTRY archetype - specifically and OBSERVATION. You can only create operational templates on Composition-based templates as these are whatare used to validate the composition instances that are stored in the openEHR CDRs. A…

[image] ian.mcnicoll: The problem here is that you are creating a template based on an ENTRY archetype - specifically and OBSERVATION. Adding to that, toolkit.cabolabs.com only accepts OPTs for COMPOSITIONs.

Hi @ian.mcnicoll , Thank you very much for the inputs. I am able to export the composition based template in OPT format !!! I am new to this system, Could you please point me the documentation where I can get details of terminologies like composition, observation, evaluations . Regards

Hi, A good place to start will be this https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/RM/latest/ehr.html . You can also look at the related documents mentioned regards

We have published a bunch of training presentations at https://freshehr.com/resources/ that you might find helpful. They are a wee bit out of date but most of it still applies. Presentations Introduction to 2-day workshop Anatomy of an eHealth app Why is eHealth so hard? What is openEHR Introdu…

Thank You @ian.mcnicoll @Dileep_V_S for your help.

How to export templates in opt or xml formate

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YogeshSomawar (Yogesh Somawar) 2 December 2020 11:00 5

Hi @Dileep_V_S,

I am creating a template here itself “https://tools.openehr.org/designer”. I exported it in native format(JSON). Please see if you can export that in opt file.

~Yogesh
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