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Files and EDI

Validate EDI

Checks an EDI document's envelope and required business segments.

Nodes › FilesOpen in Neblex
Good for
Catching malformed documents
Role
Works on the records in a flow
Find it in
Nodes › Files

When to use it

  • Malformed documents must be reported or rejected before processing.

Reach for something else when

Assert Data QualityWhen you are checking ordinary records rather than EDI.

Example

Validate every inbound document and route the ones with violations to a review task.

  1. Read EDI
  2. Validate EDI
  3. Wait for form

How it works

Settings
Structure field; Output field [validation]; On violations: Attach the report and continue [default] or Fail the step.
Output
{valid, violations: [{code, severity, segment, position, message}]}.
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Add it to a flow

  1. Open the flow from Build › Workflows.
  2. Open Nodes and find Validate EDI under Files, or search for it. Click it or drag it onto the canvas.
  3. Drag from the previous step's output handle to its input, then open its settings with ✎ Edit.
  4. Run the flow and click the step to see the records it received and produced.

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