Well, when I go into a contract I bring one of those IG building products with me. WHY? To make my life easier.
A 4010 manual is several hundres dollars. Multiply that by the number of standards you need to carry with you and you need a large trailer and a small fortune. I have from 2002 to 5010 on my laptop, and also several versions of EDIFACT. Does not weigh an ounce. ______________________________________________ Chris Cancilla From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dunham Craig E. Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Re: Call for Analogies Hmmm... I guess I'm just too "old-school" for this... *sigh... As the hub, I dictate what data and documents we're going to trade. And I dictate what segments and elements must be there and "can" be there. And I guess I'm an elitist - I use WORD for all of it... I've got the full document specs for (in .rtf format) with all of the segments and elements that I can include. I have the ASC X12 v 004010 book (dating from 1997!) to research what elements and qualifiers to use or request... I search through the document "format", delete and modify the segment pages to show what segments and elements I require and want and delete those that I don't want... I mark some MANDATORY and some are OPTIONAL. I include "user notes" to explain any references that may seem odd or could be questioned... Then I save it as a WORD doc and then convert it to a .pdf document and send it out to My trading partners... If I need to have a listing of the elements that can be included in a segment and what they mean, I just look at My 12 year old book (which has a ton of highlighted sections and notes!) and then type it into word.... I guess My EDI system is running smoothly enough that I have the time for this slow, old-school and decidedly manual process... Sorry, Art (and others) but I don't need or use EDISIM or EDIFECS or SpecBuilder or any of that... I've never been one to try to justify the cost of a "new" product - just because it's new... But, then again, I'm also the cell phone user that just wants his cell phone to be ... gasp! ... a phone... and the only reason I've got a car payment is because I didn't want to subject My 8 year old PT Cruiser (daily driver and show car) to a 120 mile roundtrip daily commute... Craig E. Dunham EDI Coordinator EYE Analyst [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
