Creating Vendor Definitions

Different ways to add Vendor Definitions to your application.

All EasyHL7 applications ship with 3 Vendor Definitions embedded into them. These are the Default definitions for HL7 versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 which are the versions currently in use in over 97% of HL7 compliant interfaces worldwide! HermeTech has taken great pains to make sure that these 'Default' vendor definitions accurately represent the ANSI HL7 specifications for these versions so it is HIGHLY recommended that you DO NOT modify these definitions. If you want to add your own annotations, or user-defined (Z) segments then we recommend that you create new vendor definitions and modify those. This will insure that you always have the pristine Default versions to use as a reference for future needs.

There are two main methods of getting new Vendor Definitions into your application. You can:

1.	Import a Vendor Definition which has been exported from another EasyHL7 application

2.	You can create a new Vendor Definition from scratch.

EasyHL7 Vendors Window

Open the EasyHL7 Vendors window in your application using the Windows Menu (see below):

EasyHL7.exe: Click File -> View / Edit Vendors

Commando: Click HL7 -> Versions -> Create / Import / Export

Database Schema Engines: Click Tools -> HL7 Versions -> Create / Import / Export

Widgets (EasyHL7 Notepad etc): Click Tools -> HL7 Versions -> Create / Import / Export