Need assistance with translation

[Ian Morris]

In the attached screenshot you can see we are doing some translation logic that helps us populate OBR 263.1.  The application owner has asked us to make an adjustment to the logic so that it does this instead:

If obx 573.1 exists then copy obx 573.1 to obr 263.1

If obx 573.1 does not exist then copy obx 573.0 to obr 263.1

I’m not quite sure how to accomodate this request.  I’ve run into something like this in the past.  However, if I attempt to pull obx 573.1 and it doesn’t exist, then I get a translation error.

I’m not sure how to pull a potentially non-existant obx 573.1 and have the translation still successfully complete.

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[Tom Rioux]

Try performing an IF/ELSE statement to do this.   IF the IB value is what you need, then move .1 over to the destination, IF it isn’t what you need, then move the .0 over to the destination field.

Hope this helps…

Tom

[Jim Kosloskey]

Ian,

In order to check whether a field is populated (‘exists’) do an IF Action checking the field ne @null.

If there is something in the field then thie above will evaluate true. Thne in your else you can do what you want if there is nothing in the field.

No Tcl actually necessary (depending on Cloverleaf release since the IF action is not available in older releases).

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

[Ian Morris]

Thanks for the tip.  I found this in another post…

Code:

Code:
0(0).MSH(0).#10(0).[0]  eq @null

It looks like what I’m after.

Jim Kosloskey wrote:

Ian,

In order to check whether a field is populated (‘exists’) do an IF Action checking the field ne @null.

If there is something in the field then thie above will evaluate true. Thne in your else you can do what you want if there is nothing in the field.

No Tcl actually necessary (depending on Cloverleaf release since the IF action is not available in older releases).

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