I think you guys are saying the same thing as Art -- use a tool like EDISIM or SpecBuilder and add comments. I've used EDISIM, I know how to build IGs. Yes, of course I know what we want and expect and will require from our trading partners, and I intend to tell them. I just thought Bill had some other "magical" way of doing things straight from Word... We don't have a source for standards other than the difficult-to-use GIS mapper, so I'm trying to get that too. Bill, sorry for misinterpreting what you were saying.
Karen. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Laidley Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:13 AM To: 'Michael Mattias/LS'; 'EDI-L' Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Call for Analogies Thank you Michael, I was trying to decide how to say what you just said. Bill Laidley CT Resources [email protected] Voice: 604-628-7121 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Mattias/LS Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:08 AM To: EDI-L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Call for Analogies > Interesting approach. Would you share an example? Not an entire IG, but > enough to show what you mean. Do you require certain qualifiers or allow > the TP to dictate? Do you just send an example transaction and then > explain the business context in several paragraphs? I've been both the > caller and the callee on those phone calls you mention, so if you have a > way to avoid them, please give us a hint. Whoa there, we may be getting two things mixed up here.... First, to create an IG, it's silly to think you can do it without some kind of standards reference. Yes, tools like EDISIM *include* some easy-to-use standards data you can suck in with one or two magic keystrokes. But if you otherwise have a source of standards info, why not create your IGs with a word-processing tool with which you are experienced? Seems silly to me to learn a new word processing tool when what you are doing reduces to.... processing words. Second, on your question above, " Do you require certain qualifiers or allow the TP.....?" If you are creating an IG to be used by all your (customers|vendors), you decide these things BEFORE you process that first word. An EDI IG is just one more manifestation of "communications skills." If the recipient understands that IG both in business and technical contexts, you done good; If he doesn't you didn't. Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [email protected] <mailto:mmattias%40talsystems.com> ------------------------------------ ... 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> 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/
