Segment Qualifier & Element Qualifier

[Former Member]

Hi,

what is Segment Qualifier & Element Qualifier in EDI?

what is the difference between these two.

Thanks,

Rajeswari

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Segment qualifier is represented by + sign and element qualifier is represented by : sign.

Take a below example:

UNB-segment : Interchange Header

S001 SYNTAX IDENTIFIER

0001 Syntax Identifier

0002 Syntax version number

S002 INTERCHANGE RECIPIENT

0004 Sender Identification

“8711382000091”

In the above example S001 is the segment and 0001 and 0002 is the element of that segment. Similarly S002 is the segment and 0004 is the element of that segment.

Now in EDI how this will be represented.

UNB123:12'

Now UNB represent the interchange header segment. NOw + represented the start of segment S001 and 123 represented the systex identifier and it will be seperated by :. now for the next segment S0002 it will again start with + and the element will be separated by :.

' represented the end of the message header.

Thanks and Regards,

Chirag Gohil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

Refer the below link which describes you in more detail.

http://www.gxs.com/pdfs/Tutorial/Tutor_EDIFACT_GXS.pdf

Thanks and Regards,

Chirag Gohil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot Chirag...

Rajeswari

[Former Member]

Hi rajeshwari,

here are the simple definition of segment and element qualifier

Segment:-

EDI documents are comprised of a series of records called segments. Every segment begins with a segment identifier, also called a segment code. The segments are delimited. A special character or characters designate where one segment ends and another begins. Usually segment delimiters include a line return, so we usually think of a segment as a line of an EDI document.

Element:-

A segment is comprised of a series of elements. These elements are delimited by a special character called a element seperator.

Difference

The segment code specifies what the elements in the segment represent. For instance, the first element of an DTM segment is date/time qualifier and the second element is the date. The first element of a REF segment is the reference identification qualifier and the second element is the reference identifier. We refer to elements by their sequence within the segment. For example, we refer to the first element within a REF segment as element REF01, the second as REF02, and so forth.

Example

The following X12 EDI document fragment contains eight (8) segments.

...

ST850397822~

BEG00RE1234*980208~

REFAHM109~

REFDP641~

REFIA000100685~

DTM010970918~

N1BY92*1287~

N1ST92*87447~

...

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sandeep

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