Brian, That was my initial thought as well (although I refrained from commenting ;).
Obviously, with completely flexible parties on both sides (like that ever happens), a simple change in the Element Separator is a snap. While it happens less and less, I still have customers whose Trading Partner INSISTS that they only want to/expect to see an asterisk as an Element Separator. Or at least that's what's in their IG that was written 12 years ago and no one in their EDI department wants to deal with any exceptions. Or even more likely, it's what's in their legacy EDI systems that no one knows how to handle nor do they want to bring in their consultant to change one little thing. In my early days (as an EDI Coordinator), I got pretty good at writing polite but firm e-mails to our buyers that they needed to use '+' instead of '*' in their Text Messages (for NTE or MSG) and/or Product Descriptions. Matt ________________________________ Matthew Brown Senior eBusiness Analyst | eBusiness Standards & Practices Phone: 917-524-0594 Fax: 212-999-7375 [email protected] [email protected] ⇐ Please add this address to your address book www.easylink.com EasyLink is now OpenText. This email message is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any other person is strictly prohibited from disclosing or reproducing it. If the addressee cannot be reached or is unknown to you, please inform the sender by return email and delete this email message and all copies immediately. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lehrhoff Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 3:29 PM To: PCD Cc: EDI--L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Your EDI Pet Peeves (a survey) #6 - and this is a problem why? PCD wrote: > My pet peeves are: > > 1. Not being notified by trading partner of a change in contact person and > contact point. > 2. Being told by SAP implementing partners that they can no longer bundle > documents within a single envelope. > 3. Tests that are edited files, not something run through partners EDI > software. > 4. The strongarming by a partner to subscribe to their new VAN and/or > enabling company. > 5. Being told by partner to ignore the standards and to take the "dirty" data > as is. > 6. Data Entry people who will not accept that they can't use *s in the data > they are entering. > 7. XML maps that look like they were the product of 100 chimpanzees at > terminals. > > From: Scott <[email protected]> > I'm interested to get the opinions of this group on those things you > find to be most detrimental to EDI implementations. I've posted a survey > on eC-BP.com and hope you'll take a couple minutes to provide your > views. > HERE <http://simplycast.us/fH01> http://simplycast.us/fH01 > Thanks in advance for your participation.Scott Koegler > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > 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 > > > > -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Brian Lehrhoff, EA ([email protected]) Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 Upgrade your Quickbooks for 20% off at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com Circular 230 Notice is located at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com/230notice.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------------ ... 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 ------------------------------------ ... 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: [email protected] [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/
