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XE incorrectly treats preceding zeros as significant when checking EDI message versions

Article ID: 2078
Date Created: 20/06/2011 11:08:09
Date Modified: 20/06/2011 11:30:26
Applies To: All versions of XE
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Some EDI message types use a numeric version, for example EDIFACT ENGDAT messages, which include a numeric value of 1 or 2 in the UNH segment.

It is possible for some implementations of these messages to use preceding zeros in the version field, for example 001 and some contain a version of 1. 

XE treats these as two distinct values, so if a map has been configured for version 1, a file containing version 001 will not be processed.   This can be circumvented by adding duplicate "EDI ID" and "trans ID" sections in the Index, covering both values:

 
   
 


 
   
 


This makes it difficult to deploy a map directly from the XE Developer application as it is not possible to duplicate entries in the index without completely duplicating everything map related (creating a completely new map).  The index changes would therefore need to be made manually, after deploying the original map and index.
 

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