Bridge - iCat  

To activate the bridge, go to  the Main Menu, click Setup, Program Links. Double click on iCat in the list. Check the Enabled box, then verify the Path of file to open and Additional Properties (see below).  Click OK.  You will now have a button in the Chart module labeled 'iCat'. 

In the Additional Properties grid, set the following properties:

XML output file path: This is a file that is created and managed by EZ2000 Plus Dental. Every time this bridge is used from the acquisition computer, the current patient is added to the file.  From within the iCat software, set this same path for the "PM.XML" file.  The patients in this file will show on a list to select from in iCat when acquiring an image.
Return folder path: After a patient is selected in the iCat software, it will generate a response file in the specified folder. EZ2000 Plus Dental will process this file to remove that patient from the PM.XML file.
Acquisition computer name: The name of the computer where the iCat acquisitions take place. The descriptions above all pertain to the acquisition computer. If you are on a different computer and you use the iCat bridge, it will behave totally differently. It will instead try to launch iCat software using a command line argument.

In the iCat software, turn off the option to have iCat return thumbnail images.  EZ2000 Plus Dental will disregard such images if they are created.

Troubleshooting
iCat returns an XML file with a small amount of information.  The name of the return file will be in the following format:
PatID_yyyymmddhhmmss.xml
EZ2000 Plus Dental is not interested in any of the information within the file, but only in the filename itself. EZ2000 Plus Dental extracts the PatID from the filename, removes the corresponding entry in PM.XML, and then deletes the file.   If there is an error processing the return file from iCat, EZ2000 Plus Dental will fail silently.  The return file will not get deleted, and the patient entry will not be removed from the PM.XML file.  If this happens, we will need to take a look at the PM.XML file as well as the return file.  It is also safe to delete the entire PM.XML file at any time.  This will completely clear the list of patients that show on the list to select from in iCat when aquiring an image.