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  • August 26, 2011 at 4:46 am #52663
    Marcus de Leon
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      Hi,

      I am splitting a large ERP message to smaller ORU messages using xlate. I am looping through the segments and when I reach the point to split, I am using “CONTINUE”. The loop repeats until the end of the message. I am having a problem in that messages split at the end may contain parts of messages from the beginning. I think it’s because I am not clearing out the previous messages. What is the best way to clear out a previous message?

      Thanks,

      Marcus de Leon

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      • August 26, 2011 at 11:08 am #75047
        Jim Kosloskey
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          Marcus,

          Do you have a SUPPRESS in your Xlate?

          When generating multiple messages from one unconditionally I usually place the SUPPRESS at the beginning. Mainly so I don’t forget and also as an eye-catcher that I am most likely generating multiple messages from one in this Xlate.

          Without a SUPPRESS, your last generated message will appear twice – maybe that is what you are experiencing.

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

        • August 29, 2011 at 7:52 am #75048
          Robert Kersemakers
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            Hi Marcus,

            I have had this problem as well. You are splitting the inbound message into several outbound messages, where each outbound message has a certain number of OBR/OBX segments, right?

            What you see is that when your first outbound message has, say, 3 OBR/OBX segments and the second message has only one OBR/OBX segment, then you will need to ‘erase’ the last 2 OBR/OBX segments from the second message.

            You can do this by either use a ‘do-while’ loop to PATHCOPY @null to all the OBR/OBX segments after you have send the outbound message (search the forum on how to do the do-while loop in an Xlate).

            Another option would be to first send out the outbound message(s) with only 1 OBR/OBX, then the ones with 2 OBR/OBX, then with 3, etc… This way you don’t need to erase segments.

            Hope this helps.

            Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

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