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  • April 24, 2006 at 2:09 pm #48488
    Terry Kellum
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      I’m having a problem with empty segments after using a pathcopy @null to them.

      I have a situation in translate, where I have a venipuncture service code in FT1s that needs to go in a seperate message.  I’m SENDing the current message, PATHCOPYing @NULL to the group, and populating the first FT1 with the venipuncture code (along with other FT1 fields).  When I get the message out of translate, I have FT1s at the end that have nothing in them.  Is there an easy way to supress these empty segments?

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      • April 27, 2006 at 11:54 am #58760
        John Mercogliano
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          I have usually seen this happen when a segment I am pathcopying is not defined as optional.  Try creating a variant and define that segment as optiona for the message type you are using the FT1 segment in.

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          Sentara Health Care

          John Mercogliano
          Sentara Healthcare
          Hampton Roads, VA

        • April 27, 2006 at 12:42 pm #58761
          Terry Kellum
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            Thanks a million!  Seems so obvious from this side of the problem.

            This BBS Rocks!!!!

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