Last week was almost entirely devoted to EDI work. It's an extremely time consuming and frustrating project. I've been attempting to modify the shrediy.pc banner job to produce the output we desire to transfer transcripts, and it's just not cooperating. I've made all the changes that should have worked and it still insisting on pulling the vnumber rather than the ssn. For transcripts going to schools outside our system, a vnumber won't mean anything. Also, I added a mod that should add the second and third lines of the address field when submitting a transcript for edi to be used as a way to let partner schools know if this is a test transcript once we go live by putting in ***Test*** or some such text. Well, it seems to be pulling the address from somewhere else based on the school code you put in to tell it where the transcript is being sent and over-writing the address fields. I'm still plugging away at it. It's very time consuming to test since I do not have access to the banner job submission areas to move files to and from, so I have to wait for someone else to do the moving. Then the process to go round trip from us to the SPEEDE server and back and to load everything back in can take at least 1.5+ hours, for one test case. Cheryl has planned to come back tomorrow, but I'm not sure I'll be ready. I'm hoping to make some headway today.
