Entering Lunch Time

PracticeWorks displays lunch time in your book as a gray block and warns you if you try to schedule an appointment during this time. You can schedule appointments during lunch, but blocking out the time makes it impossible to do so unintentionally.

To enter lunch times in your Appointment Book:

From the ApptBook menu, select View. The Active Appointments view mode is selected by default.
Select Block booking production. The Appointment Book changes the view to Block booking mode.

On your Appointment Book, click to go to the first day of the practice’s work week.
In any chair, click and drag to select the time that this chair is scheduled for lunch on Mondays. The time turns dark purple.
Click once on any part of the dark purple area. The Block Booking Specification window is displayed.
In the Type area, click Select. The View Production Block Definitions window is displayed.
Under Description, select Lunch, and click OK. You are returned to the Block Booking Specification window, where Lunch is displayed in the Type area.
Under Effective dates, type an ending date in the thru field.
In the Chairs box, select the chairs to which this lunch block booking applies.
The Repeat every field defaults to 1, so that this booking applies every day. Type a different number as necessary, and click OK.

To establish different lunch times for other chairs, repeat these steps for each time or date range.