› Custom EDI schemas › Sample 1: HIPAA 837I, customized for XYZ Acute Care › Create schema and sample file

Create schema and sample file

  1. Create a folder for custom EDI types, for example D:\EDI\CustomSchemas.
  2. Open an administrator command prompt in the folder.
  3. Run the CustomEdiToXsd batch job with the following syntax 
    CustomEdiToXsd <edipath> <targetpath> [<custom>]

    <edipath> - directory containing the Altova MapForce EDI collection

    <targetpath> - directory for Kofax Import Connector custom EDI schema

    <custom> - optional sender identification; needed if Kofax Import Connector must process several variants of the same EDI message type

    In this example, you do not need the optional parameter: 

    CustomEdiToXsd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altova\MapForce2014\MapForceEdi\HIPAA.XYZ" D:\EDI\CustomSchemas

    The batch job creates a new folder HIPAA.XYZ below the target folder, with the following files:

    • 837-Q3.xsd

    • info.xml

    • Sample.xml

    • X12.xsd

    Sample.xml and the xsd files are part of the resulting XML type. Info.xml is needed for mapping and it will be deleted afterwards.