How to check to see a segment is blank

[Doug Lundin]

I want to check repeating segments (AL1, DG1, IN1)  to see if they exist.  Can I do this within the translator or do I need a pre proc?

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

You can do it in either place.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Doug Lundin]

How can I do it within a translation? Can’t get it to work

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Try testing a required field in the segment. For example maybe ‘IF DG1.03 eq @null then …’

I could be wrong on that working, I haven’t tried it myself recently. Personally, I would normally use a tcl proc for that.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[James Cobane]

I think it’s somewhat dependent on what you want to do based upon the existence/non-existence of the segments.  If you want to KILL (or ERROR) the message if the segment doesn’t exist, then you would want to do it in a tps proc.  If you simply want to null out something or conditionally COPY/value something on the outbound message, then do it within the Xlate.

Jim Cobane

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