XLate OBX Segments

[Marcus de Leon]

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody can tell me if it’s possible to do the following:

I am using XLate and iterating through each OBX Segment in an MDM_T02 message. If I find an empty OBX 5, I need to append text to the previous OBX line. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks,

Marcus de Leon

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Marcus,

Wehn you detect the condition that tells you to do what you need to do, set you owntiteration counter to the current iteration counter for the OBX minus one (MATH Subtract Action) and use your own iteration counter to append the current OBX to the previous OBX.

So lets say the iteration counter from the ITERATE is %g1 and you are going to use %g99 as your won iteration counter:

Inside the iteration you will have an IF; inside that IF you will have:

MATH SUB

$%g1

=1                   $%g99

CONCAT

~…(%g99).OBX.#5

…(%g1).OBX.#5              …(%g99).OBX.#5

Note in the above the $ (dollar sign) in front of the %g1 and %g99 fields in the MATH.

Also in the CONCAT note the ~ (tilde) in front of the first OBX.#5 that indicates this is the outbound field (selected fromt the outbound tree in the Xlate and depresseing the Copy to inbound or source button).

You did not say if you want to keep the latter OBX that is appended to the former so the above asume the latter OBX is kept.

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

[Marcus de Leon]

Thanks! That’s excellent. I didn’t know how to reference the counter via $. This helps a lot!

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