1. Data Interface for Electronic Data Interchange Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding the Update as Sent Program

Understanding the Update as Sent Program

You can run Update as Sent after these tasks are complete:

  • Translation software maps the EDI Standard documents.

  • Translation software transmits the EDI Standard documents to trading partners.

  • Trading partners acknowledge receipt of the EDI Standard documents that you sent.

You must run the Update as Sent program before you download a new batch of transactions to the EDI interface tables for the transaction. If you do not do this step, you could accidentally duplicate data. Run the Update as Sent program to flag all of the documents that you transmitted as processed so that the translation software does not send the same documents again. The Update as Sent program places Y in the EDI-Successfully Processed field in all tables for these documents to indicate that this information has been successfully processed to the translator software.