I am attempting to take an X12 850 schema and I want to map a node's data elements to a record in a multi record 'flatfile'.
basically I am mapping to a file that looks like the following
Node 1
PO Number tag
PO Number
Node 2
N1 name tag
N1 name
Node 3
N2 addtnl name tag
N2 addtnl name
basically, the first element of each node is just a hard coded value and the second element is the actual value as shown next
PO Number 01133334
Cust Name Customers Name
Cust Address 111 N.Maple Dr
the second part of the record comes from the source. but if the source node doesnt exist because no data was sent, then I simply want to kick out the tag (and empty element) in the target node. I can force this to happen, except when the source and target elements are connected in the map! if I unhook and test, it works fine and outputs just the first tag part and an empty second element... why would this be please?
FC