This article is in relation to Dental Referrals only.

Before the Dental Referrals button can be installed, you will need to contact Dental Referrals who will supply you with your practice specific Dental Referrals license. Once you have this license, follow the steps outlined below.

Dental Referrals link button installation notes V1.1 (revised 18/03/21)

Requires EXACT Version 12.7 or above.

The Dental Referrals link button utilises EXACT's generic link button capability to launch a script that in turn launches your default web browser to display the Dental Referral portal. The user is then presented with a choice of referral forms, which once selected will be prepopulated with basic patient information.

Installation Part 1: Creating the DR EXACT product licence

Before starting this process you must contact the EXACT support team to enrol your practice in our systems to enable Dental Referrals for your practice.

You can access support from within EXACT, click Live Chat to get in touch with our friendly support team or ask our support bot to search for help articles from the EXACT help centre.

1. Log in to EXACT on any machine with admin privileges or as a user that has access to.
2. Go to configure - practice settings - product licences.
   • Select +1 to add a new Licence.
   • Under Product Name enter Dental Referrals.
   • Under the key enter the following licence key (same for all customers).
     c6e33d4a-f358-4b89-a666-ba96f5067407
   • Leave the access code blank (it is not required for this Link Button).
   • Enter the directory path C:\DReferrals.
   • Then click copy to all computers.
   • click OK.
     
     
3. Please note this screen does not auto-update so please log out of EXACT while performing step 2 (or wait a few mins for it to register the new licence) before logging back in to test.
4. Once the licence is enabled exit, relaunch and log into EXACT. Open up a patient file and you should see the Dental Referrals Icon. Please note the icon only appears if a patient is selected.

When you select this icon the Windows default web browser will be launched,  pointed at the Dental Referrals web portal front screen which then prompts the user to select a type of referral form.

Once the referral form is selected, the form will be displayed with the supported patient fields pre-populated.

Installation part 2: Install the Dental Referrals link button

1. Download the file attached to this article titled 'drlink-install-32bit' (located at the bottom of this article).
2. Extract this file to your computer.
3. Make sure you have the Dental Referrals Authorisation Token (API key included in your email from Dental Referrals) before continuing.
   • If you need to contact Dental Referrals see: https://dental-referrals.org/about-us/contact-us/ or email: d.referrals@nhs.net
   • This installation process will need to be repeated on every workstation where you want the link button to be used.
4. Once extracted you will need to then run the 32 bit installer.
5. You will likely see a UAC prompt.
   • If it does please select yes.
   • Then if you're happy with the licence agreement click I agree.
     
6.  Leave the path as it is, clicking install.
   
7. At the end of the install process a windows popup will be displayed prompting for your Dental Referrals Practice Authorisation token. This is the API key/authorisation token issued by Dental Referrals to the practice.
   
   • Enter your code (or copy and paste, use the right mouse click to paste) after the prompt and hit enter/return.
8. If the wrong code is entered or this code needs to be changed then repeat the Part 2 install and re-enter the key.
9. Complete the installation by selecting close, log out and back into EXACT before the button will appear.