Chronic Medication Service (CMS) Message Collector

Note - For Health Board or Service desk use only.

The CMS Message Collector should be configured to run automatically as a daily scheduled task from your GPC Machine/EDI Account whenCMS was initially enabled. A manual CMS Message Collection can also be run if required, which enables you to request and receive data from the ePharmacy message store on an ad hoc basis.

Running a Manual Collection

To run the CMS Message Collector manually:

  1. From the Vision 3 Front Screen, select Modules - CMS Message Collector.
  2. The CMS Message Collector screen displays, select the Message Type to collect:

  3. Select Process to send a request for messages to the ePharmacy store. The status displays as In Process whilst waiting for messages to be returned. It might take some time to return a response for the request:

  4. The Audit status and description displays as Complete once the message collection process has finished, select Exit to close:

If there are no messages to collect the 'No Registration update messages exist message' displays, select OK to close:

The messages can now be checked in Mail Manager.

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