How to bypass messages where last name = ZZTEST

Try something like this in the pre-xlate tps.

proc tps_filter_PASS { args } {
[code]proc tps_filter_PASS { args } {

Another way if you are using a translation is to add an if statement at the beginning of the translation and then suppress the message.

The if statement would be:

if eq =ZZTEST

  SUPPRESS

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Good options all:

Also, depending on what kind of volume you expect and how many threads or routes you need to do this on a proc you could use in multiple places could be used.

The example below could be used to kill off all ZZTEST patient ADT messages if placed in the thread inbound TPS or only for those routes/threads for which you don’t have a test system if placed in the pre-xate or post-xlate TPS on the route. proc kill_zztest { args } {
[code]proc kill_zztest { args } {

Hey Max.  I took your HL7get script and modified it slightly to return a list of Segments if only the Segment is specified in the arguments.

This might be usefull if you want to grab all the OBX segments in a message and do something with them.

Troy

proc hl7get {args} {

  set MyMsg [lindex $args 0]                                               ;# 1st argument is the message

  set MySeg [lindex $args 1]                                               ;# 2nd argument is the segment

  set MyFld [lindex $args 2]                                               ;# 3rd argument is the field

  set MySubFld [lindex $args 3]                                            ;# 4th argument is the sub-field

  set FldSep [string index $MyMsg 3]                                       ;# Get the field seperator

  set SubSep [string index $MyMsg 4]                                       ;# Get the sub-field seperator

  set RetVal “”                                                            ;# Initialize the return value to NULL

  set LenSubFld [string length $MySubFld]                                  ;# See if the user spcified a sub-field

  set SplitMsg [split $MyMsg r]                                           ;# Split the message into a list of segments

  set TheSegment [lindex $SplitMsg [lsearch -regexp $SplitMsg “^$MySeg”] ] ;# Extract the segment we want

  if { $TheField != “” } {                                                   ;# If user specified a field  

    set SplitSegment [split $TheSegment $FldSep]                             ;# Split the segment into a list of fields

    set TheField [lindex $SplitSegment $MyFld]                               ;# Get the field number we’re looking for

    if { $LenSubFld > 0 } {                                                  ;# If the user specified a sub-field

       set SplitField [split $TheField $SubSep]                              ;# Split the field into sub-fields

       set RetVal [lindex $SplitField $MySubFld]                             ;# Return the sub-field component value

    } else {

       set RetVal $TheField                                                  ;# Otherwise return the whole field

    }

  } else {

    set RetVal $TheSegment                                                   ;# If only Segment specified, return Segment(s)

  }

  return $RetVal                                                           ;# Return the value of the field

}