Translation issue

[Yvonne Gaffney]

I have a translation where I am building an hl7 message from a flat file.   My issue is that I have several phone numbers which I am trying to load in a repeating  field.  I had the repeating field loading 5 of the phone numbers; when trying to add additional phone number nothing is being populated after the 5 phone number.  I even went into the variant and specified 20 repeats and still not taking the extra phone numbers.  Any Suggestions?   🙄

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Yvonne,

I’m sure the outbound HL7 (2.4?) message can handle more than 5 phone numbers. Normally repeat is on and set to ‘0’ to indicate indefinite repeats. I am more interested in the inbound message.

Are more than 5 phone numbers really coming in from the inbound message? Can you ‘echo’ the phone numbers in the Xlate and see more than 5 phone numbers?

As you mention the incoming message is a flat file and you can get an indeterminate number of phone numbers from it, the inbound message must be a HRL. Is there something in the HRL that limits the number of phone numbers to 5?

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Yvonne Gaffney]

Hi Robert,

Yes there are more than 5 phone number coming in and I am using a .vrl file.  Why must I use an HRL file?  The file is being sent as a comma delimited file and not all of the phone numbers are together.

[Yvonne Gaffney]

Attached is the portion of code where I am defining my phone numbers.  Here is the field results –>

|PRI^^^^^^(202)-726-5800^^CO~PRI^^^^^^(202) 829-3753^^CF~^^^^^^””^^CB~^^^^^^(301) 530-9351^^CH~PRI^^^^^^””^^CC|

This is the echo which is the values I am looking for on the next iteration

second phone = (301) 565-0331

outVals = 2ND

[Tom Rioux]

Maybe I’m thinking too simplistic, but have you checked the field size of the STF.10 field?  Maybe it is working but just getting truncated.

Tom

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