Combine obx’s into one

[Andrea Mancini]

i’ve been reading a lot of posts about this but can’t really find a solution.  What I want to accomplish is to combine all OBX-5’s into the first OBX-5 and remove the rest of the OBX’s.  My problem is not with the concatenation. I’ve built the string and can populate OBX-5 with the right data.

For some reason though when I Pathcopy the first OBX instance, it creates the other 3 OBX’s with empty segments. This is what I can’t understand. I’m using 0’s for my iteration counters. However, in

the past I have been able to delete segments using the @null Pathcopy method but that’s when I have a bulkcopy at the top of the script.  So I’ve attempted to try to pathcopy just the first OBX along with using the @null Pathcopy method with no luck. i’m using a group iterator not a segment because that’s what my variant is.  If screenshots would be helpful, let me know.  Thank you!

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Andrea,

Here is the way I would approach this:

ITERATE through the OBX Group (say using %g1).

Inside that ITERATE:

COPY each OBX field EXCEPT OBX-5 using 0 for the group position inbound and outbound.

CONCAT

  Source

  ~OBX(0.#5                 <–Note the tilde for outbound in Source

   ….(%g1).OBX(0).#5   <– The current OBX-5 repetition

   Destination

   …(0).OBX(0).#5

The above is for when you want the resultant OBX-5 to contain all of the inbound OBX-5 NOT as a repeating field.

IF you really want the outbound OBX-5 to be repeating:

ITERATE over OBX group (%g1) inside:

   COPY each OBX field EXCEPT OBX-5 using 0 for the group position inbound and outbound.

   COPY …(%g1).OBX(0).#5(0) –> …(0).OBX(0).#5(%g1)

   The above COPY copies each repeating Group OBX-5 to the first repeating OBX-5 FIELD.

If this is not clear then screen shots would help.

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

[Andrea Mancini]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the info.  I did not try your method, but I changed my OBX in my variant to “optional” and the blank segments disappeared.  I think they were showing up because my variant was set so that the OBX segment was not optional within each OBX/NTE group – which I had one.

BEFORE

[

  {

       OBX

       [{NTE}]

  }

]

AFTER

[

  {

       [OBX]

       [{NTE}]

  }

]

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