Compatibility Issues

Framework EDI version 5.5 is not backward compatible with source code written in:

• MFC/C++
• Delphi
• Programming languages that require explicit accommodation of optional parameters.

Backward compatibility has been broken to allow this version to process and create documents containing repeating elements.  In particular, applications created from source code using the following properties will no longer run.  The existing properties have been changed as follows:

• ediDataElements. DataElement - The syntax has been changed from ..
  

  Set <oDataElement> = object.DataElement(<lElementPosition >)

  to ..
  

  Set <oDataElement> = object.DataElement(<lElementPosition >, [<lSubElementPosition>], [<lRepeatInstance>])

  The optional parameters lSubElementPosition and lRepeatInstance have been added.
  
  
• ediDataSegment. DataElement - The syntax has been changed from ..
  

  Set <oDataElement> = object.DataElement(<lElementPosition >)

  to ..
  

  Set <oDataElement> = object.DataElement(<lElementPosition >, [<lSubElementPosition>], [<lRepeatInstance>])

  The optional parameters lSubElementPosition and lRepeatInstance have been added.
  
  
• ediDataSegment. DataElementValue - The syntax has been changed from ..
  

  <sValue> = object.DataElementValue(<sElement>, [<sSub Element>])
  object.DataElementValue(<sElement>, [<sSub Element>]) = <sValue>

  to ..
  

  <sValue> = object.DataElementValue(<sElement>, [<sSub Element>], [<lRepeatInstance>])
  object.DataElementValue(<sElement>, [<sSub Element>],[<lRepeatInstance>]) = <sValue>

  The optional parameter lRepeatInstance has been added.