> ## Audiology (3)

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> Specify default print form settings by clicking on either the Audiogram Single Print Forms or Audiogram Multi Print Forms button. In each case, a click and drag form appears. Use this form to drag default options from the box on the left into the box on the right.

> Check the Audiogram auto-save box to automatically save the Audiogram form every thirty seconds. This form involves a significant amount of data, and this feature allows you to protect yourself from data loss (for instance, as the result of a computer crash). Records that have been auto-saved are marked as such on the Subject Studies form.

> You can make default Serial Port Device Assignments for each type of device which can communicate through the serial port. You can override any default settings on the entry form itself. At the time of this writing audiometers and tympanometers are the only supported types. As other device types are added they will be handled in similar manner. Selecting the button will open the Serial Port Device Assignments form.

> For each device type, a default device name, communications port and serial port protocol can be defined. If you are connecting an audiometer and a tympanometer, they can be connected to different serial ports. The communication protocol is automatically changed depending on the entry form page being displayed (e.g. tympanometer protocol is used when the Tymps tab is selected on the Audiogram form). The serial ports can be opened automatically when a record is open and unlocked. IMPORTANT NOTE: Most preference items belong to an individual user or to the database globally. The Serial Port Device Assignments belong to the computer which is running the AudBase program (standalone or client). The computer's network name is used to identify the preferences and needs to be unique among all the computers using the same database and which are setup for serial port communications.