During last night's presentation on View, a person posed an interesting scenario.

The scenario was a hospital, that was using view, with different exam rooms. The nurses/doctors would move from exam room to exam room and needed different desktops for each room. The solution to "that" part of the problem was pretty straight forward. The recommendation was to create separate desktop pools for each room and when they nurse/doctor went into that room, they could select the appropriate desktop from the View Client's list of available desktops on the View Client toolbar.

However, from that point, things got more interesting and the question came up as to whether we could push patient data to that specific desktop. Thereby, depending on which exam room and desktop the nurses/doctors would have the appropriate patient's data.

In retrospect, I feel I have a plausible solution to this. Simply put, create a network share and instead of assigning user permissions to the share, assign desktop permissions to the share. Then, administrative personnel, could copy the appropriate patient info to the appropriate network share for that exam room. Next, when nurses/doctors attached to that exam room's desktop, the desktop would have access to the appropriate network share and therefore the person would be able to see the pertinent patient data for the patient in that exam room on that exam room's desktop.

Just a thought.