TDS properties of a local group.
Property | Type | Meaning |
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Data Element Separation | Enumerated type | Select one of the following values to specify
the method that is used to separate the data elements within the type.
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Group Indicator | String | Specify the value of a special character, or string, that precedes the data that belongs to a group, or a complex type, within the bit stream. |
Group Terminator | String | Specify the value of a special character, or string, that terminates the data that belongs to a group, or a complex type, within the bit stream. |
Delimiter | String | Specify the value of a special character, or
string, that specifies the delimiter that is used between data elements. This property applies only to the delimited Data Element Separation methods (Tagged Delimited, All Elements Delimited, and Variable Length Elements Delimited). |
Suppress Absent Element Delimiters | Enumerated type | Use this property to select whether you want
delimiters to be suppressed for elements that are missing within a
message. Select from:
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Observe Element Length | Check box | This property is applicable when Data Element Separation is All Elements Delimited or Tagged Delimited. Select this
check box if the Length property
of child simple elements is significant when parsing and writing.
Clear this check box to ignore the Length property when parsing and writing. The default value depends on the setting of the Messaging Standard property (at the
message set level) and the Data Element
Separation property.
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Tag Data Separator | Button and String | Specify the value of a special character or
string that separates the Tag from the data. The Tag Data Separator and Length of Tag properties are mutually
exclusive. If you set the property Tag Data Separator, it overrides Length of Tag. This property applies only to the tagged Data Element Separation methods (Tagged Delimited, Tagged Fixed Length, and Tagged Encoded Length). |
Length of Tag | Button and Integer | Specify the length of a tag value. When the
message is parsed, this property allows tags to be extracted from
the bit stream if the Tag Data Separator property
is not set. The Tag Data Separator and Length of Tag properties are mutually exclusive. If you set the property Tag Data Separator, it overrides this value. This property applies only to the tagged Data Element Separation methods (Tagged Delimited, Tagged Fixed Length, and Tagged Encoded Length). |
Length of Encoded Length | Integer | Specifies the number of characters (not bytes)
after a tag that are used for the length field. Enter a value from
0 to 2147483647. You must set this property if you have set the Data Element Separation property to Tagged Encoded Length; it is not valid otherwise. The actual number of data characters that are parsed depends on the value of the Extra Chars in Encoded Length property. |
Extra Chars in Encoded Length | Integer | (Only valid if the Data
Element Separation method is set to Tagged Encoded Length.) Specifies
the number of extra characters included in the value found in the
length field. (For example, the value in the length might include
the size of the length field itself as well as the size of the data
field, or it might be the total size of the tag, length, and data
fields.) Enter a value from 0 to 2147483647. The parser subtracts this number from the number found in the length field to get the number of data characters that follow the length field. You must set this property if you have set the Data Element Separation property to Tagged Encoded Length, and the actual number of data characters is less than the value found in the length field. |
Property | Type | Meaning |
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Data Pattern | String | Specify the regular expression that the parser uses to identify the data in the message to assign to the object. This property is used when the Data Element Separation method is set to Use Data Pattern in the complex type. For more details, see Message Sets: Regular expression syntax. |
Property | Type | Meaning |
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Repeating Element Delimiter | String | Specify the delimiter to use between repeating
elements. This delimiter is used only when the element repeats and the Data Element Separation property of the parent group or complex type is set to All Elements Delimited or Variable Length Elements Delimited. A default value is provided if the previous conditions are true; if the messaging standard is HL7, the mnemonic <HL7_RS> is used; if the messaging standard is not HL7, and the maximum number of repeats is fixed, the delimiter of the parent group or complex type is used. If none of the previous conditions are true, a default is not applied. |
Repeat reference | Enumerated type | Use this property if the object occurs multiple
times, and the number of occurrences is given dynamically by a field
earlier in the message. Select an integer object from the list of
integer objects that occur before this object in the structure of
the message. The value of the selected integer specifies the number
of occurrences of this object. If no objects are listed, no integer
objects exist before this one in the message structure. If a Repeat Reference is specified, it overrides any setting for the Max Occurs logical property when parsing and writing the message, but not for validating the message. |