Ranier,
I use the HL7 configurator to change the OBX-5 field to something other than a default and save it. This creates an entry in the ‘fields’ file for that variant.
Then, I use an editor on the fields file to have a length more than 100000. ‘Infinite’ is a relative term and I expect you don’t really want say a 100 MB pdf to go through the engine. I’d be worried that something that large would cause bad things to happen. I just give it a extraordinarily large value for the pdfs that I expect to get in my lab results.
You’ll need to do this with both the inbound and outbound variants.
Traci Zee
Emdeon Business Services
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