Control Validation Severity Levels

How the validation engine reports the severity of errors is controlled by creating and configuring Validator Profile (.apf) files. Either TIBCO EDISIM Validator or TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop can be used.

After Validator is started, to create a profile file with your custom settings, perform the following steps:

    Procedure

  1. Go to Options > Validator Profile.

  2. Select the Filter tab.

    The Filter tab has two groups of settings: Severity Level and HIPAA Types, as shown in the following figure.

    Figure 9: Validator Options Profile

    By default, all of the Severity Levels listed are selected, which means all of these categories of errors are included and reported when validating transactions.

Suppress Severity Level

To cause the validation engine to suppress a particular severity level, perform the following steps:

    Procedure

  1. Clear the desired severity level checkboxes.

  2. Click Save As.

  3. Specify the location and name to use for the .apf file.

  4. Use the BusinessConnect Operations Editor to upload the .apf file into the configuration for the transaction you want to apply the .apf file during its validation.

Example: For the validation engine, to ignore warning errors during validation of a 00401/004010X098A1/837 transaction, clear the checkbox next to Warning in the Validator Options Profile dialog, save the profile, and then add the .apf file to the configuration of the 00401/004010X098A1/837 transaction in the Operations Editor.

Suppress HIPAA Type

The HIPAA Types settings are used to let the validation engine know the types of HIPAA errors to include during the validation of transactions.

By default, all the HIPAA Types are included during validation. clearing a HIPAA type indicates that the validation engine should ignore errors of that type during its validation of a transaction.

Example: To prevent balancing errors from causing a transaction to fail validation, clear the checkbox next to 3-Balancing.

Controlling Severity by Error ID

With validator profile (.apf) files, you can control the severity and HIPAA type of a particular error.

After Validator is started, create a profile file with the settings that change the default behavior for a particular error ID.

    Procedure

  1. Go to Options > Validator Profile.

  2. Select the Messages tab.

    The Validator Options Profile dialog appears:

    Figure 10: Validator Options Profile Messages

  3. Select the line with the error for which you want to change the settings.

  4. From the Severity dropdown, select the severity level to apply to the error.

  5. From the HIPAA Type dropdown, select the HIPAA type to apply to the error.

  6. Click Save As.

  7. Specify the location and name to use for the .apf file.

Use the BusinessConnect Container Edition's Operations Editor to upload the .apf file into the configuration for the transaction you want to apply the .apf file during its validation.

When using TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop to perform design time validation of data files, it is also possible to create or modify .apf files to control the validation results you see during your design time validation, and then apply the .apf file to your BusinessConnect Container Edition configuration.

Sometimes, it is easier to determine the error ID, for which you need to specify new settings when you validate the data file using TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop. In this case, select the error when it is displayed and specify the settings to use. For example, if you used TIBCO Foresight® HIPAA Validator® Desktop to validate a 004010X098A1 837 Professional data file that contains an error in the format of the zip code, at the end of validation you would see something similar to as shown in the following figure:

Figure 11: Desktop Validator Diagnostic Message

By selecting the error message in the Diagnostic message pane and then right-click, you see the following menu options as shown in the following figure:

Figure 12: Diagnostic Message Options

The menu options display the error message ID associated with the selected error and also you can set the Severity Level and HIPAA Type to associate with that error ID.

Save the .apf file after configuring new settings for an error ID

After you configure new settings for an error ID, save the .apf file created by these actions by performing the following steps:

    Procedure

  1. Go to Options > Save Profile.

  2. Specify the location and name to use for the .apf file.

  3. Use the BusinessConnect Container Edition's Operations Editor to upload the .apf file into the configuration for the transaction you want to apply the .apf file during its validation.