Splitting Messages

[Marcus de Leon]

Hi,

I am splitting a large ERP message to smaller ORU messages using xlate. I am looping through the segments and when I reach the point to split, I am using “CONTINUE”. The loop repeats until the end of the message. I am having a problem in that messages split at the end may contain parts of messages from the beginning. I think it’s because I am not clearing out the previous messages. What is the best way to clear out a previous message?

Thanks,

Marcus de Leon

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Marcus,

Do you have a SUPPRESS in your Xlate?

When generating multiple messages from one unconditionally I usually place the SUPPRESS at the beginning. Mainly so I don’t forget and also as an eye-catcher that I am most likely generating multiple messages from one in this Xlate.

Without a SUPPRESS, your last generated message will appear twice – maybe that is what you are experiencing.

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Marcus,

I have had this problem as well. You are splitting the inbound message into several outbound messages, where each outbound message has a certain number of OBR/OBX segments, right?

What you see is that when your first outbound message has, say, 3 OBR/OBX segments and the second message has only one OBR/OBX segment, then you will need to ‘erase’ the last 2 OBR/OBX segments from the second message.

You can do this by either use a ‘do-while’ loop to PATHCOPY @null to all the OBR/OBX segments after you have send the outbound message (search the forum on how to do the do-while loop in an Xlate).

Another option would be to first send out the outbound message(s) with only 1 OBR/OBX, then the ones with 2 OBR/OBX, then with 3, etc… This way you don’t need to erase segments.

Hope this helps.

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