Document Standard Maintenance

LANSA Composer

Document Standard Maintenance

To reach the Document Standards, expand Administration and Housekeeping in the Navigator and then select Document Standards.

You can use the Instance Lists to view and select from the available Document Standards.  Using the menu commands, toolbar buttons or right-click menus you can:

  • Create, copy and delete Document Standards
  • Print Document Standards definitions
  • Display and/or revise the details, attachments or notes for the Document Standards

Document Standard Details

 

The following are the details that can be entered for a Document Standard definition:

Document Type

Specifies the Document Type to which this document standard belongs.  When creating a new document standard, you can choose from a drop-down list of available Document Types.  You must create a Document Type before you can create a Document Standard for that document type.

Standard

Specifies a name by which this document standard will be known within LANSA Composer transaction document processing and in the LANSA Composer Document Manager.

Version

Specifies a name by which this document standard version will be known within LANSA Composer transaction document processing and in the LANSA Composer Document Manager.

Description

Text description for the Document Standard.

Match agency

Specifies the agency value in the EDI transaction document that matches this document standard and version.  This value (along with the Match version) is used by the DISCOVER_EDI activity to determine the Document Standard definition in LANSA Composer that applies to the subject EDI transaction document file.

Match version

Specifies the version value in the EDI transaction document that matches this document standard and version.  This value (along with the Match agency) is used by the DISCOVER_EDI activity to determine the Document Standard definition in LANSA Composer that applies to the subject EDI transaction document file.

SEF file name

Specifies the name of the SEF (standard exchange format) file that is used by the DISCOVER_EDI activity to validate EDI transaction document files.  The DISCOVER_EDI activity will expect to find the SEF file (if provided) in the directory for SEF files specified in System Settings.