1. Edit “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mirth\conf\mirth.properties”  and make sure the database property is set to sqlserver2005

database=sqlserver2005

2. Login to SQL Server management studio and create an database called “mirthdb”

3. Inside SQL Server Management Studio, execute the script  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mirth\sqlserver2005-database.sql” which creates all the necessary tables within mirthdb database.

4. Create an account called “mirthdb” and grant necessary priviledges to this account for mirthdb database.

5.  Edit “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mirth\conf\sqlserver2005-SqlMapConfig.properties” and add the username and password for the SQL Server user created above.

Thats it, restart the Mirth servcie and login to Mirth. It is as simple as that.

For brevity sake I am just going to showing the OBX segments that I am going to parse here instead of the whole message. The following two OBX segments are present in my message:

OBX|1|ST|HT^PATIENT HEIGHT||142.9

OBX|2|ST|WT^PATIENT WEIGHT||45.2

I want to create three variables, one to hold the height, one to hold the weight and one to hold the number of segments we parsed.

The first step is to create the channel. I am assuming here you already know how to create a channel. For my channel l have my source as a file reader and a database reader as the destination. I create a transformer for the destination. In the transformer, I paste my sample message in the template section and create a step with step being “Javascript”. Then I type the following script as my Java script:

var i=0;
for each (seg in msg..OBX)
{
       i++;
       var key = seg['OBX.3']['OBX.3.2'].toString()
       var obx_val = seg['OBX.5']['OBX.5.1'].toString() ;
       if(key.search(/HEIGHT/) != -1)channelMap.put(‘HEIGHT’, obx_val);
       if(key.search(/WEIGHT/) != -1)channelMap.put(‘WEIGHT’, obx_val);
}
channelMap.put(“obx_seg_count”, i);

 This script creates three variables, HEIGHT, WEIGHT and “obx_seg_count” that are now available to us in the destination for inserting in to a data base as follows.

 Assuming I have a table called ‘OBX’ and columns called ‘ht’ and ‘wt’, I insert the values in to the table as follows in the detonation tab….

expression = “insert into OBX (ht, wt ) values (‘” + $(‘HEIGHT’) + “‘ , ‘” + $(‘WEIGHT’) + “‘)”;
var result = dbConn.executeUpdate(expression);

The trick in this is the for each loop above. The expression in the parenthesis is simple XML E4X expression (see https://wso2.org/project/mashup/0.2/docs/e4xquickstart.html for more details). The other concept to grasp here is to note that the incoming message is available as ‘msg’ object and is just a XML object. Knowing this we can traverse the XML object with E4X and find the elements we are interested in which are OBX elements. The other concept to understand is the ‘maps’ in the Mirth. You need to populate the ‘channel map’ so those variable you create are available throughout your channel.

If you have unknown number of OBX segments in a message, like in a ORU message where you get a report, you can do two things, we can either loop through the way I did up here and concatenate each OBX segment to create on variable called ‘report’ with <cr> at the end and put that in to channel map. Or you could create several variables like following….

var i=0;
for each (seg in msg..OBX)
{
       i++;
       var key = “report_seg_”+I;
       var obx_val = seg['OBX.5']['OBX.5.1'].toString() ;

       channelMap.put(key, obx_val);
}
channelMap.put(“obx_seg_count”, i);

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