Questions tagged [edi]

Electronic Data Interchange is the transmission of structured data directly from one computer system of one organization to the computer system of another organization.

Overview

EDI is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as "the computer-to-computer interchange of strictly formatted messages that represent documents other than monetary instruments. EDI implies a sequence of messages between two parties, either of whom may serve as originator or recipient. The formatted data representing the documents may be transmitted from originator to recipient via telecommunications or physically transported on electronic storage media."

Standards

Currently there are four major sets of EDI standards:

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EDI X12 Implementation with C#

Our company is selling medical supplies, we have a website that we sell our products online. We are working with suppliers, who sends products to our customers when we receive new order. Currently we are handle this manually. We receive order in our…
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.NET EDIFACT/X12 Framework

We need to process some EDI messages for a client and i was wondering if any of you could recommend some components (not necessarily free) that could do the task. I'm interested in a framework that can parse EDI messages into .NET structures and…
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Is anyone using Python for GS1 XML and AS2 EDI?

I'm helping some manufacturing companies link up their EDI systems using the GS1 XML specs (this is an international spec for companies to pass things like purchase-orders, invoices, barcodes etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1). There are lots of…
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Can EDI files have ~ in data?

I'm parsing a EDI file and splitting by ~s. I am wondering if it's possible for EDI to have ~ in the data itself? Is there a rule that says no ~ in the data? This is for 810/850 etc
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open source .NET libraries available for writing ANSI 837 files in EDI?

We have data stored in a database and we need to create an ANSI 837 file from this data. Are there any open source frameworks available to do this in .NET?
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How to set up an EDI Server

I was tasked to check out the feasibility of doing inhouse EDI, as the 3rd party costs are getting out of hand. In doing web searches on the subject, there is a lot of info about the various documents types and formats and creating them from XML or…
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Is there any good X12 parser in Java?

Is there any good X12 parser in Java which can process Walmart 810 specification? EDI example: ISA*00* *00* *16*102096559TEST *14*PARTNERTEST *071214*1406*U*00040*810000263*1*T*> …
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PHP EDI X12 Parsing

I have a project to implement an EDI solution into an existing ecommerce-like website. There are only three EDI documents involved and only one company to transfer files with. They have strictly defined the X12 documents, and will be responsible for…
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Anyone translate a X12 271 Healthcare response

I'm looking for C# code that translates a 271 health care eligibility benefit response to a more usable format so I can display certain segments and values into a datagridview. I'm looking for code that I can use to break this thing apart as it's…
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C# .NET AS2 communication

I like to ask for some guidance on this topic of sending and receiving files via AS2 or AS3 communications protocol via a .NET C# implementation. I have search for examples or explanation of how you would implement this communication layer to send…
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How to load a flat file with header and detail data into a database using SSIS package?

I have to load a flat file that has different header and detail with variable number of columns. These have parent child relations. How to load the data into SQL Server? The file looks like…
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Does autotrader.com (vehicle marketplace) offer an API for posting vehicles?

Does anybody know if autotrader.com offers an API or something that would help with mass postings of vehicles? Or does anybody have any idea of what to use to create something like this? I was thinking of maybe a mouse location and click over a…
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EDI X12 version 4010 message - can non-composite elements contain sub-element separator character?

Version 4010 x12 messages support segments with composite elements (like REF04) which contain sub-elements that are separated by sub-element separators. Here is an example of a segment which uses ; [semicolon] as a segment separator, * as an element…
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Handling Appliciability Statement 2 (AS2) Requests

My company has decided to roll their own EDI service to handle a partner that wants to communicate over AS2 - Applicability Statement 2. To my surprise, there's not a whole lot of resources or information out there for developers that need to roll…
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Overview of how EDI processing works

I'm new to EDI and have to implement it in a legacy system. I want to make sure I have the higher level overview correct: 1) Generate EDI file from my system for a given trading partner 2) Probably FTP it to them 3) response is ftp'd to me and I…
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