turn a 12 character date to 8 character

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February 19, 2015 at 3:11 pm #54581
teddy greschel
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I am trying to change the admit date and discharge date in PV1 from yyyymmddhhmm to a yyyymmdd. i am very new to interfacing and any help will be appreciated.

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- February 19, 2015 at 3:15 pm #82096
  Robert Milfajt
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  Easiest, if you are using an Xlate, is to modify your outbound HL7 variant so Admit and Discharge dates are 8 characters long.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Robert Milfajt
  Northwestern Medicine
  Chicago, IL
- February 19, 2015 at 3:28 pm #82097
  teddy greschel
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  thanks that does help little but how would i have to create a new variant if i am using the same variant for other xlates?
- February 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm #82098
  James Cobane
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  If you don’t want to affect the outbound variant because it is used for other interfaces/Xlates, then you would have to create a new variant. You could do some tcl in the Xlate to trim the value down:
  
  set xlateOutVals
  0 7]]
  
  This will grab the first 8-bytes of the input field and set xlateOutVals to just the first 8 characters. However, you will want to test this as the engine may automatically fill-in the hours/minutes based on the field defintion of the variant.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Jim Cobane
  
  Henry Ford Health
- February 19, 2015 at 4:50 pm #82099
  teddy greschel
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  That work just as needed thanks
- February 19, 2015 at 4:53 pm #82100
  Keith McLeod
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  If you are using 6.1, then you can use the new string command
  
  string source xlateStrSubstring 0 7 to destination
  
  effectively doing what James had indicated…
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