xLate / Structure Truncating Z Segments

[Weston Olmstead]

All, looking to double check myself here.

I have a xLate that takes a message with some Z-Segments. I had to create an HL7 Structure / Format that added the Z-Segment to use in the xLate, but after the xLate I’m missing my Z-segments. I thought it was the xLate at first, but I stripped the xLate down to a bulk copy only and that didn’t work either.

I went and used the testing tool to try and parse the segments into the testing tool. When I parse the file into my HL7 via the testing tool my Z segment shows up in the tool but the fields are blank (my Z-7 field should be populated).

My assumption at this point is I built my HL7 Structure / Map wrong. I created 7 custom fields (on the fields tab) of type String with unlimited length. I then created my Z Segment on the Segments tab, and used the fields i just created. After that I added my Z-Segment to the appropriate message type as normal.

Did I miss a step, or am I just missing something very obvious?

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[James Cobane]

Weston,

Are you using the same variant on the Outbound side of your Xlate?  Does the outbound variant also contain the Z segment definitions?

Jim Cobane

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[Mike Campbell]

Don’t forget to do the ‘reconfigure’ in the Xlate once you change your format.

[Weston Olmstead]

Thanks for the replies so far.

1. Yes, I am using the same inbound & Outbound Variants. I’m just attempting to copy some data to additonal fields in the same message format.

2. I did reconfigure the xLate, and see the Z Segments included in the variant in the xLate.

[James Cobane]

I would take a harder look at the test data and the variant defintion.

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