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Rapid course · Lesson 10 · English
Course code: OCA-002Lesson 10: OCA-002-A010

An undated page is not this week's list

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Lesson map

Lesson 10 published. Map, example, EX064.

flowchart TD
  D["A page of names is in the drawer"] --> Q{"Does the page show a print date, and does the log match it?"}
  Q -->|No| R["It cannot be shown to be newer than the drill page"]
  R --> W["Urgent calls do not use it as this week"]
  Q -->|Yes| U["Urgent calls may use that dated page, names only"]

A stack of names without a date is not a newer extract.

Logical drawing

reminder in the calendar
three-week drill page still known
someone adds another page, no date, no writer
    |
    +-- the new page is not identified as later
    +-- urgent calling still waits
    +-- a usable list would carry a print date and a log line

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Reject an undated drawer page as this week's urgent-call list.
  2. Say what a usable print would have to show before anyone phones from it.
  3. Keep a missing caller on today's appointment sheet instead of declaring that Hollybank has no record.

10.1 A second stack can still be the old news

Chapter 5 separated the calendar reminder from the drill's list. Staff now face a different object: a page already sitting in the drawer, with client names and no date. Nothing on it shows that it was printed after the drill. Nothing in the change log, which only Sofia and Dr. Moss can write, records a print. Two undated pages cannot be ordered by looking at them. Phoning from the newer-looking handwriting repeats the drill's gap whenever the page is actually the old one, and the staff cannot tell.

A list that urgent calls may use has a print date on the paper and the same date in the change log. This lesson does not place that pair into Hollybank's file.

10.2 Worked example

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Object in the office What it shows Decision
Page of names, no date, no writer Cannot be ordered against the drill page Do not phone from it as this week
Calendar reminder alone An intention to print Still not a list
Page dated last Tuesday, same date in the log A print Sofia or Dr. Moss recorded Urgent calls may use those names
Caller absent from the undated page The page may be old Write the name and time on today's appointment sheet and mark it for a system check

Synthetic case. No dated print is added. Do not invent client names.

Errors and limits

A dated page still omits anyone who registered after that morning. Those callers are checked in the practice system when it is up. This chapter does not set how long either paper is kept.

Apply

Worked answers

EX064. The undated page is not this week's list. Do not say Hollybank has no record of the caller. Write the caller's name and the time on today's appointment sheet and mark the line for a later check in the practice system.