The Drawer functionality was adjusted in MacPractice builds after 7.3. You can read more about these changes in this article here.
The MacPractice Drawer contains additional features such as user created lists and reports on patient or user interactions within records. The options available in each tab vary by ability. For example, the Patients, Schedule, and EDR/EMR abilities have unique Drawer functions.
To open the Drawer, click the button on the bottom left of the sidebar.
The Drawer will display tabs depending on the ability selected. These tabs within the Drawer may include the following, which we'll cover further in the article:
The Lists tab displays lists created in the Reports ability and allows you to manually create lists. Lists are most often used to export specific sets of data or to create bulk notes, forms, or envelopes.
To manually create a list, click the plus button to create a new folder. Rename the folder and drag any list items from the MacPractice sidebar to the new list. List items might be patients from the Patient ability, Forms, Appointments, and so on.
Lists within the Lists tab display in three columns:
- Name: The name of the list item, such as a patient name, form name, and so on.
- Type: The type of the item within the list, such as patient, appointment, form, and so on.
- Ability: The ability from which the list item was derived, such as Scheduling, Images (Attachments), Accounting (Ledger), and so on.

- Name: The name on the charge.
- Charge: The total amount of the charges within the set date range.
- Date: The date the action was committed.
- Action: The name of the action committed, such as Update, Insert, and so on.
- User: The username of the user who committed the action.
To print the filtered results, click the Print icon.
These filter options display results within the following columns:
- Name: The name of the patient on the appointment.
- Date: The date on which the appointment was/is scheduled.
- Time(Mins): The appointment start time and the duration for which the appointment was/is scheduled in minutes.
- Status: The status of the appointment, such as Confirmed, Unconfirmed, and so on.
- Type: The appointment type of the repeating appointment.
- Resource: The Resource in which the appointment is scheduled.
To print the list, click the print icon.
References
For information on using Drawer Reports with References, see References Drawer Reports.
The Appointments tab within the Drawer has unique functions within the Patient ability, where the tab describes all appointments, and the Schedule, where the tab describes details on a single appointment.
Patients
The Appointments tab within the Drawer in the Patients ability lists the Patients in the account, Follow-ups (Recalls), Appointments, and To Reschedule appointments.
Patients in account:
- Name: The name of the patient within the account.
- Patient ID: The patient number.
- Chart Number: The number within the Chart Number field in the Patient tab.
- Name: The name of the patient on the appointment.
- Type: The Follow-up or Recall type.
- Last Visit: The date of the last visit.
- Frequency: The frequency assigned to the Follow-up.
- Next Visit: The date of the next visit scheduled.
- Notes: Any notes added to the appointment.
The date range filters above the Appointments box can be used to filter the appointment results.
- Name: The name on the appointment.
- Date: The date for which the appointment was scheduled.
- Time(Mins): The appointment start time and the duration for which the appointment is scheduled in minutes.
- Status: The status of the appointment, such as Confirmed, Unconfirmed, and so on.
- Type: The type of the appointment.
- Name: The name on the appointment to reschedule.
- Date: The date on which the appointment was originally scheduled.
- Time(Mins): The appointment start time and the duration for which the appointment was scheduled in minutes.
- Type: The type of the appointment.
- Notes: Any notes added to the appointment.
- Status: The status of the appointment, such as To Reschedule.
Schedule

-The upper portion of the Appointment tab displays and modifies information in a similar way to that of the Appointment Detail window in the Schedule.
The Transparencies Tab controls Transparency blocks in MacPractice 7.3 and earlier.
You can read more about Transparencies in 7.3 in this article here.