Hi Steve, I hope this doesn't get me shot by the group, but perhaps you may want to entertain the idea of implementing the 811 Consolidated Invoice. Originally used by the phone companies, I used it in the autoglass industry to send invoices to the insurance companies. It is a complex document--I think that only the 835 Healthcare Claim is more complex. The last time I worked with it, probably about eight years ago, it used seven levels of HL looping structure. The tracking of the present location in the hierarchy broke the GUI mapper's back. I had to use the programming language associated with the translator in order to get a map that would work.
One side benefit of taking this direction is it may scare some of your trading partners into rethinking the importance of all of that "important data". You can provide them with enough information that they will think that they are trying to take a little slurp from a raging fire hose. They'll have a blast trying to build the map for this one. Good Luck, Butch M. --- "Steve D. Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a number of vendors that have traditionally > included a lot of > unstructured text on their paper invoices, and this > has presented > problems in moving these vendors to 810s. Using the > IT1/PID loop, we > have developed the capability to process a modest > amount of text > associated with each detail line, but we have not > gone far enough to > address the considerable volume of text needed when > the invoice is for > custom items, i.e., items that involve custom > embroidery, decals, > colors, reconditioning services, etc. In addition, > some of the text > needs to be associated with the entire 810, not just > with a specific > line. > > It appears that we could take the brute-force > approach and simply use a > lot of occurrences of (1) the IT1/PID loop to handle > the line-related > text and (2) the ISS summary loop (which includes a > PID segment) to > handle the text associated with the entire invoice. > (We would also have > to make considerable mods to our line-of-business > system as well, which > was not designed to accommodate a novel within each > 810.) I'm hoping > there is a better way. It just doesn't seem to me > that the 810 was ever > intended to do this sort of thing, and yet I > understand the business > needs of these vendors. Any suggestions will be > greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Steve Becker > Sports, Inc. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
