# External FHIR orders arrive at accessioning with neither patient nor specimen data pre-filled

**URL:** <https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/external-fhir-orders-arrive-at-accessioning-with-neither-patient-nor-specimen-data-pre-filled/2395>\
**Category:** Integration\
**Tags:** dev\
**Created:** [August 24, 2026, 10:16am UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/external-fhir-orders-arrive-at-accessioning-with-neither-patient-nor-specimen-data-pre-filled/2395 "2026-08-24T10:16:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bhupesh\_Gupta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.openelis-global.org/bhupesh_gupta/32/1273_2.png) [@Bhupesh\_Gupta](https://talk.openelis-global.org/u/Bhupesh_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/external-fhir-orders-arrive-at-accessioning-with-neither-patient-nor-specimen-data-pre-filled/2395/3 "2026-08-31T13:05:32Z")

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Figured it out, refer:

> [@Specimen data from external FHIR orders is never available at accessioning (Add Sample sample-type always blank)](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/specimen-data-from-external-fhir-orders-is-never-available-at-accessioning-add-sample-sample-type-always-blank/2394/11):
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> Figured it out! It wasn’t a bad FHIR bundle after all—just a silly configuration mistake on my end.
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> `ACCEPT_EXTERNAL_ORDERS` was set to `false` in `SystemConfiguration.properties`. Looking at the front-end code, the Add Order page only pulls the order ID from the URL when `ACCEPT_EXTERNAL_ORDERS` is enabled. Since it was disabled, the entire external order workflow was skipped. Front End Debugger snapshot (for reference):
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> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/openelisci/original/2X/c/c32addec79bf74f7731316bd061f1ab8a87701ac.png)
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> AI wasn’t much help here; it kept hallucinating fixes for reading patient data on the page instead of flagging the configuration setting. Manual debugging did the trick! Setting `ACCEPT_EXTERNAL_ORDERS` to `true` completely fixed it.
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> @ELAI It will be good if above video can be updated to point out configuration settings that need to be enabled to run that workflow.

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