Allow leading and trailing spaces in EDI map testing

Question

I have some data which is being mapped into an EDI format. One issue is the data in one element has leading and trailing spaces, and these are significant. But when I run a test of the map, I get "Current value - B 427F : [37] Invalid character(s) found in data element" ... the value is ....B...427F where . represents spaces.

I believe the answer is ticking the "Allow leading and trailing zeroes and spaces" in the partner agreement properties ... is that correct?

But I can't see any way in the Visual Studio EDIFACT EDI Instance Properties dialog that is displayed when testing the map.

How can I run the map tests?

Answer 1

I often work with EDIFACT, but never use the VS.NET validation anymore. I have found that actually deploying the schema/pipeline in BizTalk gives me much better results, often different results as well!

In addition to the above, actually deploying it into BizTalk itself, gets you additional validation options (trailing/leading spaces for example), party validation, etc...

For some reason I never trusted VS EDIFACT validation to be honest.

Hope this helps!