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Validator User’s Guide 

Creating your own Guideline  

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3.  Use Standards Editor to fine-tune the new guideline, if desired. 

See 

Docstarter.pdf

 in EDISM’s Doc directory for more details. 

Summary of Contents for EDISIM

Page 1: ...TIBCO Foresight EDISIM Validator User s Guide Software Release 6 19 December 2019 ...

Page 2: ...tten authorization of TIBCO Software Inc TIBCO the TIBCO logo TIBCO Foresight Community Manager TIBCO Foresight Instream and TIBCO Foresight EDISIM are either registered trademarks or trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc in the United States and or other countries Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle and or its affiliates The United States Post...

Page 3: ...iagnostic Messages 7 Finding the diagnostic message number severity and HIPAA type 7 Diagnostic messages with enhanced information 7 Copying Individual results 8 Printing 9 Printing to a printer 9 Printing to a file 9 Debug 12 Correcting validated data 13 4 Customizing your validation 15 Options overview 15 General options 16 Diagnostic colors 22 Filtering diagnostic messages 22 Changing Individua...

Page 4: ...Validator User s Guide Contents ii Saving a validation 25 5 Creating your own Guideline 27 Overview 27 6 Technical appendices 29 Data types 29 Diagnostic messages 31 7 Index 33 ...

Page 5: ...ysts and technical staff members who need to check the validity of data against a standard or guideline Capabilities EDISIM Validator checks the validity of data against Foresight supplied standards and guidelines you have imported or created in Standards Editor You can optionally correct the data Please see FileFormatsAtForesight pdf for a list of formats that it can process ...

Page 6: ...Validator User s Guide Introducing TIBCO Foresight EDISIM Validator 2 ...

Page 7: ...se methods Select Start Programs TIBCO_HOME EDISIM Validator Go to EDISIM s Bin folder and double click on FSValidator exe From EDISIM programs other than Standards Editor use the toolbar button From the EDISIM program Standards Editor use the toolbar button Tutorial See FlatFilesAtForesight pdf for a tutorial ...

Page 8: ...a pane To size the panes drag the splitter bar between the top and bottom panes To zoom or fill the entire window with the active pane do one of these Press F7 Double click on its header bar Use the toolbar magnifying glass button Choose View Zoom These all toggle to display both panes repeat your action ...

Page 9: ... Drag a data file from an Explorer folder and drop it into either Validator pane Select from recently opened files at the bottom of the File menu Selecting a guideline After selecting a data file choose the guideline to use for compliance checking and click OK Each time you start a validation Validator reloads the guideline or standard If you change the guideline there is no need to exit and re op...

Page 10: ...lights any related diagnostic in the top Seeing the guideline with Library Link Library Link opens a guideline viewer and takes you directly to the segment that you are highlighting in the bottom pane To use Library Link 1 With a validation completed in Validator click on a line in the bottom pane 2 Choose Options Library Link This opens Library and takes you to the current location in the last gu...

Page 11: ...see the Severity Level or HIPAA Type select the appropriate list item Categories of diagnostic messages are listed in Diagnostic messages on page 31 For information on filtering diagnostic messages see Filtering diagnostic messages on page 22 Diagnostic messages with enhanced information Diagnostic messages beginning with the symbol indicate they have been enhanced with more detailed information T...

Page 12: ...rmation about the error Click the OK button to dismiss the message Copying Individual results After validation is complete you can copy one selected line from the active pane to the clipboard with Edit Copy by clicking the Copy toolbar button or by using your right mouse button You can then paste the copied line into an e mail or other Windows program ...

Page 13: ...bottom pane Both interleaved Records and the corresponding diagnostics printed together 3 In the Segments area choose one of these All segments Every record regardless of whether it had a diagnostic Referenced segments Only records that have a diagnostic The Counts Depth and Position check box is only active when you are printing to a file 4 Click OK to display your printer dialog box Printing to ...

Page 14: ...rts line feeds which fill up a page Use Formfeeds inserts a formfeed command at the end of the file 5 Click OK to see a file save box where you can name and save the report file Counts Depth and Position This option gives the report these additional columns Prev Dp Occur Loc Rcd In the report these are located on the left ...

Page 15: ... The Dp column in the Counts Depth and Position report gives the depth of the record or loop All records not in a loop are at depth 1 A record in a loop is at depth 2 A record in a loop that is within a loop has a depth of 3 Occur The Occur column in the Counts Depth and Position report shows how many instances of each record and loop has occurred so far Loc The Loc column in the Counts Depth and ...

Page 16: ...our current setting will stick until you change it The green debug messages show the steps Validator takes to enforce your business rules To prevent some business rules from displaying debug messages use a text editor to edit BusinessRules properties in EDISIM s Bin directory Set rules to 0 if you don t want them to show debug messages ...

Page 17: ...ou are in edit mode 2 Right click on a segment that you want to change and select Edit Segment Delete Segment or Insert Segment Edit Segment Make the change in the edit box and click OK The edited segment is blue Delete Segment The segment is preceded with Deleted The deleted segment is red Insert Segment A new line appears Right click on it and choose Edit Segment Type the segment and click OK Th...

Page 18: ...4 3 Choose File Save Data File or File Save Data File As and choose the filename and location for the saved file 4 Choose File Open and revalidate the new file 5 When finished making changes lock the bottom pane to prevent accidental editing ...

Page 19: ...ofile Filter tab Filtering diagnostic messages on page 22 Change diagnostic colors Options Validator Profile Colors tab Diagnostic colors on page 22 Change diagnostic type or severity Options Validator Profile Messages tab or right click on the message in the top pane Changing Individual diagnostic messages on page 22 Save and reuse settings Save Profile and Load Profile Saving a profile on page 2...

Page 20: ...is tab has general options segment related options and element related options General Options Ignore standard specific profiles You can set up profiles that automatically activate when you use specific standards or guidelines see Standard specific profiles on page 25 If selected standard specific profiles are suppressed If not selected standard specific profiles are used if they exist This is the...

Page 21: ...ble For guidance on HIPAA requirements for the ICD9 see www cms gov This setting usually only applies with HIPAA guidelines that use certain business rules Allow Leading Zeroes In DRG If selected you want to allow leading zeros in the HIPAA DRG code table For guidance on HIPAA requirements for the DRG see www cms gov This setting usually only applies with HIPAA guidelines that use certain business...

Page 22: ... will be unique within the interchange rather than just the functional group Unchecked default The Transaction Set Control number is unique within the functional group Checked The Transaction Set Control number is unique within the interchange UserCharacterSet This setting allows you to add or remove characters from the default character set for a transaction By default this parameter is blank It ...

Page 23: ...guideline says it is unused Check Envelopes Only If selected Validator only checks interchange enveloping group enveloping and transaction set or message headers and trailers For each guideline or MIG Standards Editor s Properties dialog box specifies where the enveloping definitions reside Check Segment Placement If selected Validator checks each segment as defined at a particular location within...

Page 24: ...heck Leading Blanks in Alpha If selected Validator flags leading blanks in alphanumeric fields Check Trailing Blanks If selected Validator flags trailing blanks in alphanumeric fields Check Unused Elements If selected Validator issues diagnostics when data is present for fields that the guideline says are unused Use X12 Character Set Specifies which character sets should be allowed in X12 alphanum...

Page 25: ...ignificant trailing zeroes Allowed with X12RTypeStrict unchecked Not allowed with X12RTypeStrict checked 0 010 contains both an insignificant leading and trailing zero Allowed with X12RTypeStrict unchecked Not allowed with X12RTypeStrict checked Allow newline characters within data This setting specifies handling of linefeeds or carriage return linefeeds within data elements Unchecked default Or i...

Page 26: ...alidation from continuing User 1 Dark green For your use User 2 Light green For your use Using the Colors Tab To do this Do this Change colors for a particular type Click the color next to the type Reset colors to the default Click Default Colors Set all colors to black Click No Colors Filtering diagnostic messages Choose Options Validator Profile Filter to change which severities you d like to di...

Page 27: ...urrent settings for loading later Click Save As See Saving and loading a profile on page 23 Saving and loading a profile Saving a profile Save a profile if you want to use it again after exiting Validator or if you want to give it to other Validator users Note You do not have to save a profile to use it for validation When you click OK in the Validator Options Profile box your selections will be u...

Page 28: ...idator Profile Load 2 Select fsdeflt apf in EDISIM s Bin directory Saving a default profile 1 Choose Options Validator Profile 2 Make your selections on the four tabs 3 Click Save As from any tab 4 Select the directory and filename 5 Select Save as the Default Profile at the bottom The profile will be automatically loaded each time you open Validator Restoring fsdeflt apf as the default profile If...

Page 29: ...hoose Save As 5 Go to Validator s Bin directory 6 Save it to the same name as the standard or guideline and use file type apf Use all capital letters in the filename To override this automatic profile during a particular validation choose Options Validator Profile Ignore standard specific profiles You can modify and re save standard specific profiles as with any other profile Saving a validation T...

Page 30: ...Validator User s Guide Customizing your validation 26 To load a saved validation 1 Choose File Open Saved Analysis 2 Open the SAF file you previously saved ...

Page 31: ...so use EDI data and Validator to create a new guideline for X12 EDIFACT and HL7 data You can then use the guideline with any EDISIM module just as if you created it in Standards Editor Briefly to create your own guideline 1 Validate clean EDI data against an appropriate industry standard 2 When you are satisfied with the results save the validation to a Docstarter Collection file File Docstarter C...

Page 32: ...Validator User s Guide Creating your own Guideline 28 3 Use Standards Editor to fine tune the new guideline if desired See Docstarter pdf in EDISM s Doc directory for more details ...

Page 33: ...at distinguishes it from R types If included n shows the number of digits to the right of the implied decimal Leading zeros are suppressed unless needed to satisfy the minimum length of the field If the value is negative include a minus sign which does not count toward the length N and N0 are equivalent it is not necessary to include the zero This means the implied decimal is at the end of the num...

Page 34: ...Do not include commas in the number use 1000 rather than 1 000 The minus sign is included if it is negative Do not include commas or plus signs Leading zeros should be suppressed unless needed to satisfy the minimum length Trailing zeros at the end should be omitted if the value includes a decimal point unless they show the level of precision Signs and decimal points do not count toward length Exa...

Page 35: ...ted in 10000 29000 Basic error messages FSAnErrs txt and Options Validator Profile Messages tab 32000 32999 Error messages generated by user created business rules Filename of your choice See BusinessRules pdf in Validator s Doc directory Also listed in Options Validator Profile Messages tab ...

Page 36: ...Validator User s Guide Technical appendices 32 ...

Page 37: ...2 default profiles 24 diagnostics 23 F filtering 15 22 G guideline choosing 5 guideline selecting 16 L leading zeroes 20 Library Link 6 M message numbers 7 22 31 O opening Validator 3 Options menu 15 options overview 15 P padding or control characters 18 pane sizing 4 printing 9 printing to a file 9 R results understanding 6 S saved profile 23 24 saving a validation 25 segment terminator 18 severi...

Page 38: ...Validator User s Guide Index 34 U unused fields 20 unused segments 19 Use One Standard 17 Z zoom 4 ...

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