Mike,
If you give the users a screen field with only 10 positions, then the
users will have to choose which ten positions are the most significant
for them. You don't have to truncate anything.
If you are truncating something is because the users are entering more
than 10 positions on the screen and your back-end system cannot handle
the excess. But I don't think this is your problem, since you described
the problem as a DDE screen "real estate" issue.
Kepa
"Winston, Mike K." wrote:
>
> In the 837 professional IG it states that the line item control number (pg
> 472) can be 1 to 30 bytes. Is there any scheme that will be used in this
> field, we do not have enough space on our current screens to allow an extra
> 30 bytes per line and so we planed on truncating in our processing systems .
> In order to still use the field to uniquely ID the lines within the
> adjudication system we are trying to determine if the last 10 or the first
> 10 would be more beneficial in identification. If anyone currently works
> with this field or has any thoughts around how it will be used I would
> appreciate any comments.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Winston
> Trigon ISD
> Ext 44521
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