[Health] Name vs Last Name in Tryton vs GNU Health / Expiry dates for lot numbers in stock management

[Christoph H. Larsen]

Dear Crowd,

I continue to be a bit confused by the "Name" and "Last Name fields in
Tryton, and their use in GNU Health.

In Tryton itself, I got the impression that "Name" should be the FULL
name of the respective party, e.g. "John Cage". The "Last Name" field
was an addendum to clearly determine, which name component is the
surname (here: "Cage"), and is subsequently used by Tryton's reporting
utilities.
If, still in Tryton, I enter only the first name ("John") into the
"Name" field, and "Cage" into the "Last Name" field, I get only "John"
in the Party listing and letters/reports - which is hardly desirable.

So, while this:
Name: John Cage | Last name: Cage
works in Tryton, with a listing as "John Cage", and letters addressed to it,
the same yields a patient name of "Cage, John Cage". Ouch!

Given the multitude of different countries GNU Health is (going to be)
used in, Tryton's philosophy of stating the full name, and then again
the surname (or name used for politely addressing the respective party)
makes sense. Example:
"Minh Anh Quan Trung" in Vietnam is the full name of a person, but the
surname is Minh (East Asian naming order). To make life more
complicated, in many countries surnames are kind of ignored, and I am
just "Dr. Chris" - nice touch, though ;-).

So, as a minimum we need Tryton and GNU Health use the above fields in
the same manner. Or am I missing something?

Unrelated question: I have not yet gotten into Tryton's stock
management, but for pharmaceutics and lab reagents, this will be
essential. Can we enter expiry dates to lot numbers?

Thanks a lot everyone!

Bests from Kabul,

Chris


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