The Entities Page provides access to management of entities functionality. The main page lists all the entities that have been defined on your instance. By default, when you install the software you get one entity called “Person Entity” that represents a person or patient. You can add a new entity by pressing the “Add Entity” button at the top right corner of the Entity Management page.
Checking the checkbox on the left of an entity to select it causes, the button bar to emerge from the bottom of the the screen which gives you various options for manipulating the selected entity. The “Edit” button allows you to edit the configuration of an entity. The “Delete” button allows you to delete the selected entry after confirming the request. The “Export Schema” button allows you to export the entity definition to a local file that you can then import on another instance or use as the basis for a new instance. The “Export Records” button, upon confirmation of the operation, initiates a background operation to export all the records in the instance for that specific entity to a pair of files in the directory pointed to by the file-repository configuration parameter.
