Delimiters Associated with Collection Areas
Each collection area is also associated with a set of delimiters that all transactions in that collection use.
The delimiters for the collection area are determined as follows:
1. The batchProcess service uses the value from its delimiters input parameter.
2. If you do not specify a value for the delimiters input parameter, the batchProcess service uses the sender and receiver from the interchange or transmission header to locate the EDITPA values and uses the EDITPA delimiters variables.
3. If there are no values for the EDITPA delimiters variables in the partner-specific and default EDITPAs, the batchProcess service uses its own defaults.
Using the interchange or transmission header from the original EDI document, the batchProcess service determines whether the transaction uses the same delimiters as those associated with the collection area. If the transaction uses the same delimiters, the batchProcess service places the document in the collection area. If the transaction uses different delimiters, the batchProcess service replaces the delimiters in the transaction with those used by the collection area before it places the transaction into the collection area.