Military Flips are not a supported feature within Apteryx at this time. You can use a workaround to provide a Military Flip to an entire Apteryx URL, but you cannot revert the images back to a standard layout in a way a customer would expect should the customer decide to revert. You can revert the layout so that tiles are on opposite sides again, but you cannot “unmirror” each image within each layout’s tiles en-masse. As such, Apteryx Support takes the stance of encouraging best-practices, using widely accepted standards most customers will expect when viewing and acquiring images.
In Dental, there’s an orientation of images known as the “Military Flip.” It is a non-standard way to display images that mirrors all x-ray layouts in addition to the images themselves within image tiles.
The typical user request for a “Military Flip” in the DSO landscape is for a single or extremely small subset of doctors that work for that DSO that want images displayed this way for them as a preference. Most DSOs can coach or performance manage those doctors to no longer needing to use Military Flips. However, you may still run into situations even within DSOs where you get this request.
Military Flips are not a supported feature within Apteryx at this time. The reason being that we do not have user-specific or location-specific settings that will allow users to select whether they want to display layouts/images in a military flip or not. However, if a customer’s entire Apteryx URL is already using a Military Flip, and plans to continue doing so, we can use Plugin settings to mirror newly captured images as they are captured and then manually modify Layouts so that the layout is Military Flipped. But doing so would continue to create a situation where EVERY IMAGE that they acquire is being mirrored. That means if they ever decide they no longer want to use the Military Flip, we can change the orientation of the layout back to standard, but we cannot perform a mass horizontal flip on every image they have within those tiles. It would be like the image below, where the tiles are in the correct Standard layout again, but the images within them are still backwards. Currently Apteryx has no way to correct this en-masse, so the only solution is for users to manually correct them as-needed if they are reverting a practice from using a Military Flip to no longer using a Military Flip.
Currently Product’s stance is that there have not been enough requests for this feature, and it is an exceedingly rare request that is usually addressed by the customer’s organization’s leadership team.