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Chapter 2 Managing EDI Guidelines : Managing Guidelines with EDISIM

Managing Guidelines with EDISIM
You can use EDISIM to manage guidelines.
The guideline management tool EDISIM consists of the following components:
The guidelines in the database adhere strictly to the various EDI specifications. The database contains the versions of guidelines for most of the EDI specification versions. It is usually easiest to customize a version of a guideline retrieved from the guideline database shipped with EDISIM. If your particular version of a message is not in the database, you can always customize a version.
You can always create new guidelines, but this is a very time consuming process. To facilitate the creation and customization of guidelines, a database of guideline files is included as part of EDISIM.
Starting EDISIM Standards Editor
To manage guidelines, you must start EDISIM Standards Editor.
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Click EDISIM > Standards Editor.
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Create a new guideline   You have an option to base the new guideline upon the following guidelines that you can modify for your needs:
Open an existing guideline or published standard   When you decide to open an existing guideline or published standard to create a new guideline, you have an option to base it upon the following guidelines that you can modify for your needs:
In addition to these guideline groups, two additional tabs can offer the following additional guideline selections:
All EDISIM components are documented in detail in the online documentation provided with the product. For the purpose of this guide, only a set of basic guideline management tasks is presented to help you start using the tool.
Both when creating a new guideline and when opening an existing guideline or standard, start by choosing a guideline in the database that is close to the version you need.
Customizing a Guideline
You can customize a guideline as required.
Figure 3 shows the EDISIM graphical interface to the guideline database. The New Guideline - Select Guideline dialog is displayed after you click File > New in the EDISIM Standards Editor.
Figure 3 New Guideline - Select Guideline
To customize a guideline:
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2.
Click Next.
The New Guideline - Select Transaction Sets dialog is displayed.
Figure 4 New Guideline - Select Transaction Sets
Available options depend on a specific guideline.
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Select one or more transaction sets that are used with this guideline, and then click Check All, Check None, or Invert Checked for bulk selections.
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Click Open.
The selected guideline is displayed with the description that corresponds to the transaction set you select, such as Invoice.
5.
Click the plus sign (+) next to Transaction Set .
The Transaction Set objects are displayed, such as Header, Reference Numbers, and so on.
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Click the plus sign (+) next to the object that you want to edit, such as Administrative Communications Contact, and also select the specific element to edit, such as Name.
Figure 5 Edit Element
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After you enter all your changes, click File > Export > Export Current Guideline > (available export format).
In the example, the changed guideline can be exported as a Schema.
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Save the exported file, in this case a .xsd schema file, in a directory from which you are able to use it when working with TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream.
While saving the file, you can also generate map files.
Figure 6 Generate Map Files
Define the Text Output Level and Enumeration Output Level for the new map files.
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../schema_name.xsd
../schema_name_EX.map
../schema_name_XE.map

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