Before you move your charts anywhere, you want to know whether the form will keep up with how you actually examine a patient. A screenshot cannot tell you that. The sample chart on the charting page can: it uses the same pickers as the real chart, so you can type a point, pick a pulse and see how it feels.
Where to find it and how to start
Open charting and press Chart session at the top of the page, or Open the sandbox on the sample chart preview card. The sample opens over the page with a sample patient already charted: LI4 and LR3, a wiry pulse, a pale, tooth-marked tongue, Liver Qi Stagnation and twenty minutes of acupuncture. No account is involved, and Close or Escape takes you back to the page.
Press Start tour for a five-step walk through points, pulse and tongue, pattern, protocols and history, or switch to Hotspots and open any of those in any order. You can also ignore both and click around.
What you can try
The tabs are the real chart's: Notes, Pulse & Tongue, Pattern & Technique and Points. Fields are the same components the signed-in chart uses, filled with sample data.
- Points: type a code or name, such as ST36 or Hegu, and press Enter. The point lands set to the side you used last.
- Pulse & Tongue: pulse by position or, with Detailed, by position turned off, one overall reading, plus tongue body, coating and shape.
- Pattern & Technique: pick a pattern, or type one that is not listed and add it. Technique takes modalities, retention minutes and the time the needles went in.
- Notes: a few sample custom fields and a free note. Customize fields lets you rename a field, change its type or add one, to see that the questions are yours to set.
- Protocols: apply Neck & shoulder or Low back. A protocol adds its points to the chart and never replaces what is already there.
A pattern, pulse or tongue term you add is kept on a short note under the field for that visit. In your own practice the same step saves it to your clinical vocabulary.
Undo, history and signing
The sample also shows the safety net around a chart. Each change shows Saving and then Saved just now, and Undo and Redo walk back and forward through your saves. History opens a drawer that lists every save, with Restore this version on any older one. Restoring writes the old version forward as a new entry instead of erasing anything, and a run of five or more plain saves folds into one expandable group. These work as they do in the real chart; see Session history and Undo and redo.
Sign chart locks every field and turns off Undo and Restore, the way a signed session is locked in Goji. Reopen (unsign) brings editing back. The real chart words these buttons differently, and its Sign and lock entry covers what a signed chart does there.
What is real and what is simulated
The pickers, tabs and field behavior are the real components. Three things are stand-ins because the real ones read your practice's saved data: the two protocols are canned samples rather than your own, the history drawer is a small log kept in the page, and the custom fields are examples. The save indicator is a visual only, since nothing is written anywhere.
When you want the full thing
The sandbox has no patients and no appointments of your own. To click through scheduling, charts with a real appointment and forms, open the free demo practice, a shared workspace with fake patients that resets every night. The step after that is your own account, where the same chart autosaves to your practice. TCM charting covers the full form, and Protocols and chart templates cover shaping it for your visits.