how to edit a ACK message

Teddy,

I’m assuming that you are generating the ACK from a tcl proc on the inbound thread.  If so, then you will need to modify that proc.  Take a look at the inbound thread configuration and look at the ‘Inbound’ tab; there is likely a proc there (in the ‘Inbound Data’ dialogue) that is creating these ACKs – that is what you will need to modify.  If the proc is used in other threads, you should create a specific proc for the thread that you are dealing with so that you don’t affect other threads that may be using the existing proc.  Just copy the existing one and give it a new proc name and modify as needed.

Hope that helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

Hi Teddy,

Following on what James said.

If you are using ‘gc_genHL7OrigModeACK’ as the proc to generate the ACK, there is an option ‘MSGACK’. Setting {MSGACK 1} will generate an ACK with msgType ‘ACK^R01’ (if your incoming message is ORU^R01 for example). The default {MSGACK 0} will return msgType ‘ACK’.

Since you are using hl7Raw_ack, it is likely used across multiple threads, so you will need to create your own version of this proc for your thread.  In looking at the code, you should be able to see where it is building the ACK message and modify that section of the code.  You may want to modify it so it uses the Event Type of the inbound message as its ACK type rather than just hard-coding the ‘R01’.  This will require a bit more work as you will need to extract the value from the inbound message, but will likely be better in the long run.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health