The File Menu along with the Open, Special and Help menus, is available from within any screen in Genie. The File Menu contains options like contacting Genie Support, your Genie preferences, and Maintenance and Reports.
| Help | If you are running Genie v9.3.4 and above, clicking this Help button from anywhere in Genie will direct you to an appropriate Knowledgebase article (e.g. if you click this button from within a standard invoice it will take you to the Invoicing article). If you are running below Genie v9.3.4, this button will take you to our historical manual. |
| MIMS Information | Displays the currently installed version of MIMS, the MIMS disclaimer and contact information you can use to become a MIMS subscriber. |
| SNOMED Version | If you have SNOMED codes installed in your Genie database, this will advise which version you currently have installed. If you do not have SNOMED installed, this will prompt you to install them. |
| Contact Genie Support | Allows you to contact Genie Support directly through Genie. |
| User Preferences | Opens the User Preferences for the user currently logged in. |
| All User Preferences | Opens a list of all users allowing you to double-click and edit a particular user's preferences. You can also quickly see user availability for appointments and billing capabilities. You will need to have Modify Other Users' Preferences enabled for your user in Edit Groups to access this window. |
| Edit Groups | The Edit Groups window allows you to set security privileges for different Genie users. |
| Printing Preferences | Opens the Printing Preferences for Genie on the current computer. |
| Practice Preferences | Opens a list of practices where you can double-click to edit the Practice Preferences for a specific practice. |
| Maintenance and Reports | Opens the Maintenance & Reports window where you can produce a variety of reports including managing your financial data. |
| Set Administrator | This option is only available when the current administrator is logged in. It allows the current administrator to assign another user as the administrator of Genie. |
| Add or Change User | Opens the Login window allowing you to log in as a different user, add/change passwords, and add or delete users from your Genie database. |
| Change Practice | This option is only available if you have multiple practice locations set up in Practice Preferences. |
| QuickReports | QuickReports allows you to create custom searches within your Genie database, giving you the ability to print, export or preview your reports. |
| Import | Allows the import of data into Genie. Please contact Genie Support for further assistance. |
| Export | Allows the export of data out of Genie. Please contact Genie Support for further assistance. |
| Connections | The Connections window allows the setup of an automatic exchange of new and modified demographic data with other external applications. |
| Execute Command | The Execute Command window allows you to enter in specific lines of code to manipulate data in your database. This should only be used under instruction from Genie Support. |
| Start Offsite Logging | This option can be used to manually start offsite logging from within Genie Solo if you use Database Replication. |
| Import Offsite Log | This option is used to manually import offsite logs from your database replication, if required. |
| Register | Allows you to register Genie by entering a registration code supplied by Genie. |
| Cloud Adapter | This option allows you to stop, start, and restart your Genie Cloud Adapter. This adapter is responsible for running Medicare Web Services and our suite of Advanced Extras. |
| Activate Medicare Web Services | This will open a window where you can perform an Online Patient Verification (OPV) to connect your practice with Medicare Web Services. |
| Set Practice Type | This allows you to specify the type of practice your Genie database operates as. Certain features in Genie will automatically display different information depending on the practice type you set here. |
| Quit (Windows only) | This option gracefully quits Genie. Clicking the red cross in the top-right of the screen is not recommended as it does not allow the database exit routines to run. |