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By bradymiller:

Hi Jacob,

What are the advantages of grouping them into discrete specialty folders?

Here is a list of disadvantages:
1. The hard-coded paths of all the forms that get placed into the specialty folders need to be modified. (note using a mysql table avoids this)
2. Categorizing of forms into specialties (and creating new specialties directories) needs to be done outside the OpenEMR application and won't be supported when a user upgrades OpenEMR versions. (note using a mysql table avoids this and will maintain settings during upgrades)
3. Forms can only be categorized into one specialty (note using a mysql table to categorize forms can assign a form to multiple specialties).

thanks,
-brady