From the Run Outbound Map window, you can select View EDI File to display the EDI Viewer window. On this window, you can print the EDI file, find character strings in the file, replace character strings, view the file in a “wrapped” or “unwrapped” format, and save the file. You can edit the EDI file if required – for example, if errors occurred and corrections had to be made. You can also open another EDI file and perform the same operations on it.
From the File menu on the EDI Viewer window, you can Open another EDI file (or any file), Save (or Save As) the open file, or Print the open file.
When you choose Open from the File menu on the EDI Viewer window, the Browse – EDI File window displays.
From the Edit menu, you can either Find a character string or you can find a string and Replace it with another character string.
If you choose Find, the Find dialog box displays. Enter the character string to find in the Find What text box and press Enter. The character string for which you are searching is highlighted. To find another occurrence of the character string, select Find Next or select Cancel to exit.
If you choose Replace, the Find dialog box displays, with a new Replace With text box. Enter the character string to replace in the Find What text box and the character string to be substituted in the Replace With text box. Press the Replace key. The character string is replaced, displayed, and highlighted. To replace another occurrence of the character string, select Find Next and then Replace again. To exit the dialog box, select Cancel.
From the Options menu, you can choose to View EDI in a Blocked or an Unblocked format.
If you choose to view the EDI file in a blocked format, the EDI Block Size dialog box displays. In the text box, enter a block size between 40 and 300 and select OK. The EDI file in the EDI Viewer window now displays in blocks the length that you just specified.
The EDI data displays in an “unwrapped” format. Each segment begins on a separate line and has an incremental line number. In addition, position markers that appear above every 10th character help you to easily identify the character positions within the segments.
You can “wrap” the “unwrapped” EDI data by selecting Wrap EDI. The EDI data appears as one long wrapped record on the EDI Viewer window.
If you select Options on the EDI Viewer window, the Options window displays. On the Options window, you can set the starting character (Start Byte), the ending character (End Byte), and length (Wrap Size) of the EDI records you are viewing.
