Testing NCPDP F&B configurations

Tests NCPDP Formulary and Benefit record format configurations. This test reads, parses, and displays messages, ensuring that configurations match the input data.

Note: NCPDP Telecom, NCPDP SCRIPT, and NCPDP Formulary and Benefit require an additional license to become active.
  1. For NCPDP F&B Version, click the arrow to open a list of available versions.
  2. For Variant, click the arrow to open a list of available variants.
  3. Specify the testing data file in Choose Data File. You can also click the folder button to open a file browser to select the data file. By default, the file browser locates on the $HCISITEDIR/formats/ folder.
  4. Select Show Field Names to show field names.
  5. Open the Detail level menu to select from a list of detail levels for the test output that is reported in the Result pane. Detail levels go from 0 (raw, unparsed data) to 4 (most detail).
  6. Select the line termination format in which to save the test messages. Click the arrow to open a list of formats.
    Newline Terminated reads the data in the file until it finds a newline character, making all that data one message, and sends that to the parser. It then reads until it finds the next newline character, makes a second message, and sends that to the parser.
    Length Encoded reads the first 10 characters to determine the first message length. Then it reads that many characters into a message, and sends it to the parser.
    EOF Terminated reads the file until it gets to the end-of-file character, takes that as a message, and sends it to the parser.
  7. Specify the encoding in the Encoding field. You can also click the arrow to open a list of different encodings that identify the encoding of messages in the selected data file. The command converts the messages from the identified encoding to UTF-8 to perform the test. When you select an encoding from the list, an -e encoding option is added to the corresponding command line.
  8. Select how to process records
    process all records reads the selected data file and processes all the records in it.
    process one record reads the selected data file and processes only the first record in the file.
  9. Select Test Parser (default) or Test Numbers.
    Test Parser parses each message.
    Test Numbers tests the number conversion.
  10. If required, then select Grep to filter the output.
  11. Click Run Command to run the command shown in Preview Command to Issue.
    As the test is being configured, a command-line command and the requisite parameters are generated in Preview Command to Issue. This is for display only. A command cannot be manually entered.