EDIFACT Wizard screen allows you to define your EDIFACT message format according to your own file format.

United Nations / Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (UN/EDIFACT) is the international EDI standard developed under the United Nations impulse. This standard is maintained and further developed by a UN body. EDIFACT has now been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the ISO standard ISO 9735.

The EDIFACT standard provides a set of syntax rules to structure data, an interactive exchange protocol (I-EDI), and standard messages which allow multi-country and multi-industry exchange.

As Babelway supports all EDI transaction sets of the EDIFACT standard, you can use any of them in your own gateway setup.

To define a message in EDIFACT format, select an existing template or make a copy of the generic EDIFACT template in the catalogue and following screen will be displayed.

File sample

Following is a sample EDIFACT file.

UNA:+.? '
UNB+UNOC:3+000eanpimgest:14+000eanatelier:14+2009-05-26 10:41:34.524 +0200:2009-05-26 10:41:34.524 +0200+1518'
UNH+1+DESADV:D:01B:UN:EAN007'
BGM+351+0000090027+9'
DTM+137:200905190938:203'
DTM+17:200905150000:203'
DTM+2:200905150000:203'
DTM+171:20090519:102'
NAD+BY+000eanatelier::9++LATELIER+Chausse de Lige 477+JAMBES++5100+BE'
NAD+SU+000eanpimgest::9++PmiGest+Parc Scientifique Cralys+LES ISNES++5032+BE'
TDT+1++30'
CPS+1'
PAC+2+:52+201::9'
CPS+2+1'
PAC+1+:52+201::9'
MEA+PD+AAC+KGM:0'
MEA+PD+T+KGM:0'
PCI+33E'
GIN+BJ+p00001'
PCI+34E'
GIN+SRV+05400111005652'

Wizard screen

When you create a new message format, you must first configure it using the following wizard.

Figure 1.28. EDIFACT Wizard screen

An EDIFACT messsage can only be set up using a sample file. Select your sample file using the Browse... button then click on the Upload command.

Edit screen

Once the message format sample has been uploaded, or when it is used or copied from a saved format, edit screen appears as follows.

Figure 1.29. EDIFACT Edit screen

See Message Edit Functions for further information on message definition, contextual menu and additional commands available on this screen.