Forwarding by patient name

I need to split up a stream of patient CTs inbound to a Conquest server so that there are, say, 4 separate destinations and Conquest forwards by looking at the first initial of the patient surname such that patients of surnames beginning A through F go to destination 1, G through L go to destination 2 &c.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Even if doing it alphabetically is not be the easiest way of dividing up the workload - are there any other methods that splits the traffic into more-or-less equal chunks?

dermot

Thanks for the response.

I've tried:

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# Configuration of forwarding and/or converter programs to export DICOM slices
ForwardAssociationLevel = SERIES
ForwardAssociationCloseDelay = 5
ForwardAssociationRefreshDelay = 3600
ForwardAssociationRelease = 2
ExportConverters = 2
ExportModality0 = CT
ExportConverter0 = ifnotequal "%V0010,0010[0,1]^","A"; stop; ifnotequal "%V0010,0010[0,1]^","B"; stop; forward series to server1
ExportModality1 = CT
ExportConverter1 = ifnotequal "%V0010,0010[0,1]^","C"; stop; ifnotequal "%V0010,0010[0,1]^","D"; stop; forward series to server2

ForwardCollectDelay = 5
MaximumExportRetries = 0
MaximumDelayedFetchForwardRetries = 0

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Although when the server reboots, it states that two export queue threads are started, no forwarding happens after a CT study arrives.

Any thoughts?

dermot