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KSA Group

KSA Group Description

KSA Description

Target items 

T1

Designs HL7 productions

Interprets interface requirements 

1. Determines productions and namespaces needed
2. Determines appropriate production components and the flow of messages
3. Determines production needs from interface specifications
4. Determines data transformation needs
5. Determines validation settings
6. Designs routing rules

Chooses production architecture components

1. Identifies basic functionality of production components
2. Identifies adapters used by built-in HL7 components
3. Identifies the components in a production diagram
4. Names production components, rules, and DTLs according to conventions

Designs custom schemas

1. Identifies custom segments in custom schema categories
2. Determines where sample messages deviate from schema requirements

T2

Builds HL7 productions

Adds production components to build interfaces 

1. Adds production components to productions
2. Imports and exports productions and their components using the deploy tool

Creates and applies routing rules

1. Creates and interprets rule sets
2. Accesses HL7 message contents using expression editor
3. Identifies how constraints affect code completion in the expression editor
4. Uses virtual property path syntax to implement rule conditions
5. Uses virtual property syntax and utility functions to retrieve HL7 data
6. Applies foreach actions
7. Determines problems within routing rules

Applies key configuration settings in productions 

1. Identifies key configuration settings in business services and operations
2.  Maps key settings to correct components
3.  Configures pool size and actor pool size settings to ensure FIFO
4.  Configures alert configuration settings
5.  Configures failure timeout setting to ensure FIFO
6. Configures and uses credentials
7. Identifies behavior caused by using system default settings

Uses DTL Editor to build DTLs

1. Configures source and target message classes
2. Adds functions to DTL expressions
3. Differentiates between Create New versus Create Copy settings
4. Applies foreach actions
5. Applies if actions
6. Applies group actions
7. Applies switch actions
8. Tests DTLs 

Creates custom schemas 

1. Determines custom schema requirements
2. Creates new custom schemas based on requirements
3. Identifies segment characteristics from message structure

Applies ACK/NACK functionality 

1. Selects appropriate ACK mode settings
2. Identifies default ACK/NACK settings for business service
3. Determines reply code actions for desired behaviors

Manages messages

1. Purges messages manually
2. Purges messages automatically
3. Ensures purge tasks are running 

T3

Troubleshoots HL7 productions

Identifies and uses tools for troubleshooting

1. Uses production configuration page
2. Configures Archive I/O setting
3. Identifies the name of the central alert component
4. Uses bad message handler
5. Uses Jobs page, Messages page, Production Monitor page, and Queues page
6. Identifies root cause of production problem states
7. Tests message routing rules using testing tool

Uses Visual Trace

1. Locates session ID of a message 
2. Interprets information displayed in Visual Trace
3. Interprets different icons in the Visual Trace
4. Locates information in tabs of Visual Trace
5. Determines causes of alerts 
6. Troubleshoots production configuration problems

Uses Message Viewer

1. Optimizes search options
2. Searches messages using Basic Criteria
3. Searches messages using Extended Criteria
4. Uses search tables in productions
5. Resends Messages
6. Troubleshoots display problems in Message Viewer

Uses logs for debugging

1. Uses Business Rule Log
2. Uses the Event Log to examine log entries
3. Identifies auditable events
4. Searches the Event Log