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Hello, This will be my first post, so please forgive me if I don't do it quite right. I work for a group of hospitals and I've been supporting our supply chain EDI system for over 10 years. Recently, however, I was asked to map a transaction I have no experience with - the 278...

edianalyst, Sorry for the late response to your email. I've only been hopping and skipping through tek-tips lately to save time and didn't notice your response. You can post here (I'll flag it notify me) or send me email off-line, whichever. I should warn you that while I know something...

Daren, I don't know if this will help, but the ECMap User Reference on Import Definition (Chapter 9 in my version) indicates you can bring in the definition of a "delimited "file. That would allow for fields to fluctuate in size or be absent entirely. You might want to ask...

What kind of message does it give when it bombs out? For a LINK ONLY level there are no true trailer records in your input file, it just hits that level after it reads the last detail record; is that true for your situation? If not, then it shouldn't be flagged LINK ONLY. If yes, what if you...

Tom, Yes, it helps. I do need to warn you that while I work in healthcare, the only EDI mapping I've done pertains to purchasing, invoicing, and electronic payments; claims I have no clue about. So the first 3 bytes, I'm guessing, is how you tell what record type it is, correct? So the...

Tom, It's coming clearer, but I have another question that you might have already answered, but I'll ask anyway. Are there multiple detail records per Provider or just one record for each Provider? Does your file look like this header - provider A detail record - another detail record...

Tom, Since Provider ID is not on every record, then you can't match against it. So on your Header level, the key field has to be "+" and every child level, the key and match fields have to "+" also. Record type doesn't come in to flow; it's just set in record definition...

Tom, I'm running out of things to suggest, but I'll give you some things to look at, some potential gotchas. On your flow diagram, is Options at the top set to Multiple files? Referring to your answer to question 2, is it on every record? If that's not the same as your Trading Partner...

Tom, No, that doesn't make it clearer, unfortunately. So I'll backup and ask some basic questions to see if something rings a bell. Is this common field the same value on all the records or does it have different values for each of the different types of records? Is the file going to...

Tom, I just had a brainstorm, so see if this helps. Double-click on each flow level to bring up it's properties. On your header or highest level, you should have in the Records box, Current, what input record is your header (select it from your list of records). Then off to the right...

I'm not sure what you mean when you say the records are "out of sequence", but I can address your question. How do you know one record is a different type than another record? If they are different records because of different values that are in the same field on each record...

Those fields refer to receiver indentifiers. Is this going to be an inbound transaction to you? If it is, this information is how you identify your company EDI-wise to your trading partner. Someplace in your EDI software you define your company identifier and qualifier and that's where it's...

That all depends on the TPs and your software. It depends on whether you're the buyer or the seller. We are buyers, so my boss took the tack that we are the ones paying so we shouldn't jump through hoops to meet their needs. It has worked; we've got EDI up for all our big $ vendors (nearly...

Just a late comment, keep in mind that you have a sample version 4030 832 tree, but do you know if the X12 file is going to be a version 4030? If it's an old version, like 3020, it may look very different with different segments and fields. DISA standards are very useful, but they are not...

If you go to your scheduler directory, is there a scheduler.lpd.pid with a date equal to the last time the scheduler was started? If it isn't, then the problem is in your start script; are you sure you've got all the necessary spaces between the parms and the paths? If it's there, then your...