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Tibco Edisim
Introduction to EDISIM
Software Release 6.11.0
July 2012
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1 Introduction to TIBCO
Foresight EDISIM
EDISIM Components
EDISIM has these components to help you increase productivity and reduce risks
associated with EDI:
Standards Editor lets you start with a published standard and create your own
customized guideline or MIG from it. These feed into all other parts of EDISIM
and into all other TIBCO Foresight products.
Library is a guideline viewer that shows all parts of the selected item in a
convenient, one-screen display. It also teams up with EDISIM Validator to show
the relevant guideline specifications for each diagnostic or line of data.
Test Data Generator lets you create test EDI data based on published standards,
or guidelines and MIGs created with Standards Editor.
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Comparator lets you compare two published standards, guidelines, or MIGs. You
get a report of the differences, which you can browse on the screen or print. You
can selectively or globally migrate user changes from one guideline to another.
Installation
Full instructions for installation are in Readme.txt with the installation files. This file also
contains information and announcements about the current version.
Installing Additional Standards
You may decide to install more standards after you have already installed EDISIM. To
do this, rerun the installation program. Follow the prompts, choosing Standards Only.
Newly-released standards are available on TIBCO Foresights web site,
http://download.foresight.tibco.com.
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Examples:
If guideline A is already opened for writing by Standards Editor:
The same user cannot open it for writing (by using it as a Comparator migration
target).
The same user, or other users, can open it for reading, but they will see a read-only
copy of the guideline/MIG as it was at the moment it was opened. Changes made
while they are viewing it will not appear.
Help is Available
Telephone: Call TIBCO Foresight Technical Support at 1-800-669-5006 or
614-791-1600 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
E-mail: FSSupport@TIBCO.com. You can attach a zipped SEF file, if desired.
Getting Started
A good starting place is x12tutor.pdf or EDIFACTtutor.pdf in EDISIMs
Documentation directory.
From there, you can move on to the components that interest you the most. Look at the
list in Documentation_Index_EDISIM.pdf.
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Individual Components
You can start any component directly from the start menu (Start | All Programs |
Foresight | EDISIM). In this example, we start Standards Editor directly.
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Other buttons
EDISIM Information
Overview of EDISIM.
Customer Support
Contact Us
Click a task category button to see a list of tasks related to that category.
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A navigation arrow will appear at the top or bottom of the EDISIM task pane if
there is more task information than will fit in the current view:
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Use links in the task detail area to open EDISIM applications and documentation.
(You may have to click twice if the focus is on another application.)
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