We are expanding our existing e-RS integration to include appointment slots functionality (directly bookable type services).
Our QA team has been given access to test Trust (on INT) to create services under, but we are struggling with appointment slots testing data. It seems you can setup polling times for a service to update it’s available slots, but nowhere to define those available slots (or blocked out times, days etc.)
In order to test functionality like showing which days a service has slots available , drilling down to the day to show the times in that day (yes, I am aware the slots are returned paged and in no guaranteed order), or even just testing paged retrieval of numerous slots - we would need services with (preferably a lot of) slot info.
In short, are there any recommendations on how to best test slots & appointments functionality in the INT environment? I am hoping there was an example list provided in an on-boarding email that might be long since lost in my inbox , but that search has proved futile as well.
Thanks for the update. Our current state is that the ITOC team is standing firm, saying they cannot add appointment slots for any services our QA team created through the E-RS website / portal on the INT environment. Seemingly the portal route counts as a PAS system that is outside of their control / scope. (note we are not a patient admin system - we just aid creating referrals for GPs etc.)
ITOC said they will only add slots to services they created (of which there is one, which isn’t working - but that is a different issue altogether).
Our BA will be taking over mantle now and cc’ing the nhserspartners email for good measure.
This is more for folks coming across this in future - if anyone finds any other avenue for this to add to this thread.
Of course, if we find the magic setup steps, I’ll also update this thread.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to this thread and we’ll have a look at the email when it comes through. There’s potentially a misunderstanding here along the line. We’ll try and bridge that gap between yourselves and our internal teams, if we can.