Adding new OBX segments to an iteration?

I believe this falls under the “fun with indexes” category. You will need to maintain separate indexes/variables for the NTE segments vs the OBX segments. As you mentioned, you may want to “insert” a new OBX segment at the top. You will have math functions to increment counters that are used as the OBX indexes. This means that your OBX index will end up being greater than your NTE index.

Example – if you know there will be five patient identification OBX segments, write those out first, incrementing the index for each OBX, from 0 through 4. Then when you get into your NTE-based loop, use that same OBX index, currently valued at 4, and add 1 to it for each NTE segment that you are copying over to an OBX.

This will take some time to work out, but everything is addressable.

Is this sort of what you are trying to do? I have to add an OBX segment at the top of reports with the accession#. Then, I renumber the remaining OBX segments through the iteration.

If after reading the provided answers (all of which are correct) you still are having issues, I am willing to via desktop sharing, help you work through this issue. There are some nuances involved.

Just email me and we can work on this off-line if you would like. Email is in my signature.

Cloverleaf is really kind of ‘not good’ in this regard. You have to keep two sets of variables, one standard translate variable (@var) where you can do MATH functions, then the iterate variable (%g1 – where g can be i or f depending on context, and a number), which you have to put a $ to store into (see Lisa’s copy line of @idx -> $%g2). Cloverleaf won’t allow you to math on the % variable, so you have to update the @variable then store it into the % variable. It’s a really odd design choice. Otherwise, as the others said, you need to keep your iterate index and copy index separate and keep the counter current.