A Sneak Peek at Softshare EDI Notepad

HTML View

EDI Notepad's HTML view displays EDI transaction sets as attractive business documents. If you're looking to easily read or comprehend (or print) the information contained in an EDI document, this is the ideal viewing mode.

Syntax Validation

A missing element or out-of-place character can cause an entire EDI transaction to be rejected. In Softshare EDI Notepad, errors are highlighted in red so that you can quickly pinpoint them. Detailed error descriptions are available by running the EDI Parsing Errors report. Once errors are identified, they're easily corrected using EDI Notepad's editing tools.

Easy Editing of EDI

From EDI Notepad's edit view, you can insert new segments or elements into an EDI document, delete segments or elements, or edit the values carried by elements. EDI Notepad's edit screens ensure that you don't introduce invalid EDI. From a segment's properties, as shown in the next graphic, EDI Notepad provides a tab for all the elements the segment could possibly use, per the transaction type's EDI standard and version. From these element tabs, you can add or remove elements, as well as edit their values. For faster editing, click the Quick Entry button, which allows for free-form editing of a segment.

Easy Building of EDI

When you build an EDI document from scratch, EDI Notepad starts you off with those segments that are mandatory per the transaction type's EDI standard and version. For example, as shown here, ANSI X12 purchase orders require the BEG and PO1 segments at the very minimum for compliance.

Acknowledgment Generation

Softshare EDI Notepad can generate and send compliant functional acknowledgments for any EDI envelopes opened in its interface. These acknowledgments will show accepted or rejected statuses, based on validation against the EDI standard and version.

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