How to Use this Manual Throughout this manual, advice and instructions are offered regarding the use of the RPC Broker V. 1.1 and the functionality it provides for Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (V IST A) and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software products. There are no special legal requirements involved in the use of the RPC Broker Interface. This manual uses several methods to highlight different aspects of the material: • Various symbols are used throughout the documentation to alert the reader to special information. The following table gives a description of each of these symbols: Symbol Description Used to inform the reader of general information including references to additional reading material Used to caution the reader to take special notice of critical information Used to denote Virgin installation instructions only. Table 1: Documentation symbol descriptions • Descriptive text is presented in a proportional font (as represented by this font). • Conventions for displaying TEST data in this document are as follows: • The first three digits (prefix) of any Social Security Numbers (SSN) will begin with either "000" or "666". • Patient and user names will be formatted as follows: [Kernel Delphi Components]PATIENT,[N] and [Kernel Delphi Components]USER,[N] respectively, where "Kernel Delphi Components" is defined in the Approved Application Abbreviations document, located on the Application Abbreviations web site and where "N" represents the first name as a number spelled out and incremented with each new entry. For example, in KDC test patient and user names would be documented as follows: KDCPATIENT,ONE; KDCPATIENT,TWO; KDCPATIENT,10; etc.