To provide information grouping of transaction sets by transaction ID and functional ID for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the list of segments in a transaction set for the electronic form of the X12 standards
This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Electronic Form Structure Transaction Set (868) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to provide a structure for transfer of EDI standards, or portions thereof in an electronic form. These EDI standards include but are not limited to: ANSI X12 standards, approved ASC-X12 draft standards for trial use, UN/EDIFACT standard messages, and industry EDI conventions and guidelines. It is intended to provide users with the following: The ability to send and receive EDI standards data which can be used to update application or translation software. The ability to exchange data maintenance information with trading partners about transaction sets, segments, elements and codes that will be used for EDI transmissions. The ability to transmit complete or partial EDI standards or conventions.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To provide the information related to all of the values for this instance of the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide information related to the data maintenance request number in the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide information related to the interchange order table of the control segments for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide a free-form format that allows the transmission of text information
To provide information grouping of transaction sets by transaction ID and functional ID for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the list of segments in a transaction set for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide for grouping the data elements by segment ID value for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the detail information for the data element relationships in a segment for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the detail information related to the sequence of the data elements in a segment for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the detail information related to the sequence of the subelements in a composite data element (segment) for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide the data element attributes for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide appendix information for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To specify quantity information
To provide the code list values of a data element for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide description information related to the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide appendix information for the electronic form of the X12 standards
To transmit information relative to comments and notes within the X12 standards
To provide information related to the data maintenance request number in the electronic form of the X12 standards
To provide description information related to the electronic form of the X12 standards
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
Code uniquely identifying a Transaction Set