@grace, this reminds me of @darius’ process of imagining how Bahmni would use OCL and running into challenges with using OCL and our 26-March-2018 Design Forum, which led him to share a proposal for the “OCL for OpenMRS” application (which evolved into today’s OpenMRS Dictionary Manager).
It might help to look at @darius’ posts above along with his OCL for OpenMRS Application storyboard Google Doc.
@darius had a very the same experience as you did, which led to the creation of the Dictionary Manager. I thought that, now that both OCL and the Dictionary Manager have evolved to a state where we’re considering how we might merge them, it might help to look back at the original impetus for creating the Dictionary Manager. 