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  • October 8, 2008 at 6:14 pm #50360
    Kathy Riggle
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      I’ve combed the archive and can’t find my exact configuration. We’ve been hammering it for two days and can’t figure it out!

      We get:                            We need:

      MSH                                 MSH

      PID                                  PID

      [{NTE}]                            [{NTE}]

      {                                      ORC

       ORC                               OBR

       OBR                               [{NTE}]

       [{NTE}]                          {

          {                                    OBX

             OBX                             [{NTE}}

             [{NTE}]                     }

           }                                New message

      }

      We’ve got a group iteration on the first (inbound) ORC+ group. The second group iteration is on the OBX/NTE group. There’s a Continue, then a Suppress at the end of the message.

      Even using a Pathcopy with @null in the input field —

      @null  ->  2(0).1(%g2).OBX

      —we are still getting remnants of the previous OBX values in subsequent messages, if the number of results is less. I know it’s because it’s stuck in memory – I just can’t figure out how to eliminate it and go on to the next group. Is there a way to accomplish this while I still have some hair?

      Thanks. I will attach the whole translation, in case there is something really obvious that I’m missing.

      Kathy

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      • October 8, 2008 at 7:13 pm #65754
        John Mercogliano
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          Kathy,

          Before your start the iteration of the OBX segments do a PATHCOPY @null to the whole OBX group and not just each segment.  The problem you are having is that some the orders have less OBX segments then the previous order so the extra OBX’s do not get iterated over.

          Hope this helps.

          John Mercogliano
          Sentara Healthcare
          Hampton Roads, VA

        • October 8, 2008 at 7:28 pm #65755
          Keith McLeod
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            Did you mean Send and Suppress?  Send the message when you have completed the first pass through the segments you wish to send.  Then If you are trying to eliminate the iteration of the ORC group you just sent, before creating your next message you might use something like

            iterate

            |

            | send

            | pathcopy @null –> 2(0)

            suppress

            i.e shorten to a common path for all of the message segments you wish to eliminate.  I am fairly certain that is what I have done… Hope this helps…

          • October 8, 2008 at 7:55 pm #65756
            Keith McLeod
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              I wne t and check out some of the iterates I was using.  It looks like the suppress was actually used as the last command in the iterate at the ORC level.  So from my previous post slide up the suppress one level.

            • October 9, 2008 at 12:09 am #65757
              Mark Freed
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                John,

                I cannot thank you enough for your advice.  Your suggestion did the trick.

                Thanks again,

                Mark (Kathy’s minion)  ðŸ˜›

              • October 9, 2008 at 1:22 am #65758
                Jim Kosloskey
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                  I prefer CONTINUE to SEND  because SEND bypasses post Xlate processing. Now if there is no need for post Xlate processing no problem.

                  However, if later there is a need to add a post Xlate proc, it will not get executed with SEND and you could spend a fair amount of time figuring out what went wrong.

                  email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

                • October 9, 2008 at 4:44 pm #65759
                  Robert Milfajt
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                    Does CONTINUE keep an order to the messages sent out?

                    For example, I receive an reschedule (S13) message from Cadence, but my receiving system only knows cancel and new appointment, so I need to create an S15 and S12 and send them along, but I need the S15 to get there first.

                    My basic plan is to move S15 to the MSH.9 field, CONTINUE the message, then move S12 to MSH.9 and let the message fall through.  Will the S15 always be first?

                    Any advice would be appreciated,

                    Bob

                    Robert Milfajt
                    Northwestern Medicine
                    Chicago, IL

                  • October 9, 2008 at 4:52 pm #65760
                    Kathy Riggle
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                      To the best of my knowledge and experience, yes. I have this principle in place on several translations and have never had the messages get out of order.

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