Reply To: need help with setting up HRL for OB msg from HL7 IB msg

[Robert Kersemakers]

I think you do need a record identifier. I have used HRL’s as inbound, but never outbound, so I just created a small Xlate to check some things. I guess you’re trying to repeat an FRL inside the HRL, right?

For this example, I have 2 FRL’s:

Header.frl

 date( 8 )

 

Text.frl

 segmentname( 3 )

 segmenttext( 70 )

My HRL looks like this:

Message.hrl

 Name: HEADER

 File Name: Header.frl

 No Repeat

 Name: TEXT

 File Name: Text.frl

 Repeat While Field: TEXT.segmentname

                     Value: TXT

After this, I made a small Xlate (inbound doesn’t matter…):

COPY =01012006         -> HEADER.date[0]

COPY =TXT                  -> TEXT(0).segmentname[0]

COPY =This is text one  -> TEXT(0).segmenttext[0]

COPY =TXT                  -> TEXT(1).segmentname[0]

COPY =This is text one  -> TEXT(1).segmenttext[0]

This Xlate will generate 1 HEADERs and 2 TEXTs. But as soon as I change the ‘Repeat While Value’ from TXT into AAA in the HRL definition, the TEXTs are omitted.

So if you want to use the Repeat While, you need a record identifier. I’m not sure how the Repeat Block works…

Hope this helps!

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