# Specimen data from external FHIR orders is never available at accessioning (Add Sample sample-type always blank) **URL:** \ **Category:** Integration\ **Tags:** dev\ **Created:** [August 24, 2026, 8:13am UTC](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/specimen-data-from-external-fhir-orders-is-never-available-at-accessioning-add-sample-sample-type-always-blank/2394 "2026-08-24T08:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**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, 1:01pm UTC](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 "2026-08-31T13:01:06Z")
Figured it out! It wasn’t a bad FHIR bundle after all—just a silly configuration mistake on my end. `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): ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/openelisci/original/2X/c/c32addec79bf74f7731316bd061f1ab8a87701ac.png) 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. @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. --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.openelis-global.org/t/specimen-data-from-external-fhir-orders-is-never-available-at-accessioning-add-sample-sample-type-always-blank/2394)._