Chiapas / News: Recent posts

After a multi-year hiatus, I've recompiled the binaries for the .NET 4.5 Framework (make sure this is installed on your target platform) and did some long overdue maintenance. Thanks to Clint Cummins for his contributions to fixing bugs. Some issues fixed:

• Heirarchy tree is now the latest (2011) available
• Chiapas Studio no longer has the clipping issues that prevent seeing the bottom of the window on mondern monitors
• Tweaked the Unit Test jobScripts.... read more

The Beta Evaluation of Chiapas EDI 2012 has just been released at http://chiapas-edi.org , featuring Windows Workflow 4 and vastly more powerful translation capabilities than Version 1. It's currently on a 30 Day Beta Evaluation so everyone is invited to install it for themselves and check it out.

V1.25 combines the tree of V1.24 with the working code of V1.23. I've included three new mapping keys suitable for testing and evaluation of the decoding capabilities of Chiapas, within the mapkeys subdirectory. For a quick start on decoding an 834, 837 I or 837 P file directly to a SQL table with these mappings, read the Release Notes as it includes step-by-step notes on this process.

V1.24 includes a directory reorganization, tons of bugfixes, and a new walkthrough of the Chiapas Studio app. Decoding is a little slower to allow out of order loops to be parsed. The directory structure is a lot more clean and all the test files, jobs and mapkeys are gathered under the 'Samples' directory. Chiapas Studio now is a little more compact and clean. All of the test suite scripts are redone to accommodate relative paths.... read more

This is a tree update - everything is now bundled into one universal tree file. 5010 820, 834, 837 I & P are now all fully implemented in Chiapas, meaning that Chiapas is now a viable tool to demonstrate compliance with the January 1st, 2012 deadline for 5010 transactions.

Here's a quick update about the current state of Chiapas. Note that there is a bug in the default ISA element lengths for 5010 834 tree in the current release. This should be OK if you map each of the sixteen elements to a fixed length string of the correct sizes as specified in the 4010/5010 guides. The upcoming release of Chiapas will contain 5010 and 4010 in a unified tree, and will contain 5010 834, 820 and 837 I and 837 P. As of now, 834, 820 and 85% of 837 I are complete and I am targetting end of November for V1.3.... read more

I am currently rewriting the documentation for Chiapas, and am nearing completion on the first chapter. If you'd like a clearer explanation of the decoding process, check it out.

- Richard
richard.temps@gmail.com

This release features better 997 acknowledgment support and fixed PER segment encoding. Progress is still ongoing to enter in the 5010 specifications (834 5010 is complete and included within the distribution already). This software is a completely 100% open source HIPAA EDI solution - if you encounter any bugs or have some suggestions, I'd enjoy hearing them.

- Richard
richard.temps@gmail.com

V1.22 contains some minor bugfixes and support for 5010 834 Eligibility files. The two specifications, 4010A1 as well as 5010, are stored in two separate trees within the the binaries release under the 'tree' folder. The Chiapas binaries distribution contains all the files needed to conduct X12 EDI, including binaries, the mapping studio GUI and documentation. The source distribution is for C# software developers who'd like to examine the inner workings of Chiapas.... read more

LEGACY_OLDTREE / NEWTREE now inherit the connection string / DBTYPE, and may actually be useable on Oracle. These commands do work with SQLite now (albeit very slowly), so that database manipulation commands on the included chiapas.db (SQLite V3 database of the latest tree) will allow you to manipulate the tree information and then save the tree using TREE_TO_FILE. Also, the 0425 tree has some further revisions and clean-up.

Chiapas v1.2 Release
April 19th, 2010
A. Richard Temps

The X12 4010A1 tree has received some maintenance across all specifications for a variety of issues, most notably for a lot of overloads that were missing their output information. There is a new command, LEGACY_OLDTREE <connection string> that will store a loaded X12 tree to a SQL Server instance. Before this is done, execute the 'CreateChiapasV12SQLTables.sql' script to create the tables; the command will then truncate the tables and emit all loops, segments, elements, values, overloads, sub-elements, sub-element values and sub-element overloads to the SQL tables. With almost all the X12 4010A1 specifications implemented with the exception of 837 Dental, this comes out to 204 loops, 1085 segments, and 19052 rows for everything else.... read more

Chiapas v1.1 Release Notes
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By Alden Richard Temps
June 3rd, 2009

- This version fixes a number of bugs in the Chiapas Studio app relating to the Tree Editor. Specifically, there were some bugs adding in new loops into the heirarchy tree.

- Furthermore, there was an issue with the 4010 tree where the 837 Professional and Institutional specifications were missing the Drug Identification loop that was added by Addendum 1.... read more

I'd like to write a new version of Chiapas. For this, I need to solicit some user feedback. Want XML support? Let me know. If there's some missing segments in the base mapping tree, or anything else - let me know. I'm on a short vacation currently, having just graduated from a 3.5 year retreat, but I'm never too busy to hear about user experiences with Chiapas EDI. Big TO-DO list items for me are: more extensive documentation, especially concerning mappings and using chiapasStudio.... read more