Hi,
I'm new to this list and still feeling out all the features. I tried the
digest form until I saw it contained the same messages 4, 5 and 6 times.
I'd rather sort through the traffic as it comes in one at a time.
My first post was a rather long winded diatribe on using hypothesis testing.
I sent it with HTML turned on, which I fear many of you did not receive or
received a bunch of garbage (my original message not included 8^). This
post is being sent as plain text.
One of my many hats here at TransWorks is to handle financial EDI,
specifically invoicing with EDI-210. I also handle our EDI-426's.
How do you handle the segment definitions? By this I mean how do you know
what is intended?
We use the EDIFECS Standards-Online CD for our reference. This tells what
the edi should look like, but not how the data should go into it. For
example I have one customer sending the following waybill (EDI-426):
LX*1
L5*1*SHEETS*3312331*T
L5*1*FUEL SURCHARGE
L5*1*3312331000
L5*1*7 PCS
L0*1***123456*N***1*CLD
L0*1***123456*M
L1*1*12.34*PT*123456**123445
L1*1***12334**33333**ENS
(I've changed the numbers to protect their confidentiality)
My interpretation is the L5 here is two line items, one for 7 sheets of what
ever and one for a fuel surcharge (I have no idea which the 3rd L5
represents). My customer correctly points out the L5 is allowed to repeat
15 times for this version. Therefore they meet the standard. They claim
their other trading partners have no problem with this. Am I missing
something? The EDIFECS only go so far. Syntactically this is correct. I
think, semantically, the EDI should look the following:
LX*1
L5*1*SHEETS*3312331*T
L5*1*3312331000
L5*1*7 PCS
L0*1***123456*N***1*CLD
L1*1*12.34*PT*123456**123445
LX*2
L5*2*FUEL SURCHARGE
L0*2***123456*M
L1*2***12334**33333**ENS
This is also syntactically correct and semantically makes more sense. What
do you think?
Steve O'Shaughnessy
Systems Analyst
TransWorks
(a.k.a. Triple Crown Services)
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