> By a "Pre-Mapping" document, I was hoping someone had already created a > document for Syteline mapping that would clarify where to map the various > ANSI elements to the various flat file fields.. This is usually done in an > Excel spreadsheet. >.....
Um, that is not possible.. because each document specifier (the developer of the Implementation Guide) has the freedom to select the exact segment and element in which various pieces of applications data are actually sent. For example, while the PO1 segment is used in the '850' and the LIN segment in the '830' to convey "part number", both segments allow multiple occurrences of the item identifier... e.g., you can send the item identifier as a vendor part number, a buyer part number, a UPC code... or could send them all... and you could send them in any order... not to mention, different recipients may use different identifiers regardless of which identifiers are sent. > Some flat file definitions I've mapped from in the past have, reference the > various EDI elements that the data should be populated from. The wording in > the documentation I have from Syteline doesn't provide any type of guidance > as to what elements should be used to map to the flat file. Any "segment-element to flat file map" is perforce implementation-specific; it is IMNSHO totally silly to create the flat file documentation in any terms other than "business data element" terms such as "part number", "quantity" and "date." That said, anyone who has been around the block more than once with these documents would know (SHOULD know!) that if the flat-file doc says "Populate from segment PO1 element 7" it really means "populate using the item identifier from elements 7, 9, 11, 13.... 25 as appropriate to your application requirements." Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/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. 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/
