BEA SWIFT Adapter manual Adding a New Generic Field

Non Generic Field- Unlike a generic field, is used for one purpose only.

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Terminology

Adding a new Generic Field

Adding a Non-Generic Field

Updating a SWIFT Field

Removing a SWIFT Field

Customize Field

Adding validations for a sub-field

Removing validations from a sub field

Adding Copy of Fields

Adding a SWIFT Sequence

Adding a New Generic Field

Generic fields are used to describe the groups of business data that are common throughout the messages. A generic field value always starts with a colon (:), followed by a Qualifier (of format 4!c), followed by zero or more sub-fields. To add a generic field to the format follow the steps given below.

1.Click the Add New SWIFT Field button in the toolbar of the External Format - SWIFT UI. The Create Field dialog appears.

2.Enter the field tag in the Tag combo box and press Enter. The toolbar buttons of the options and qualifiers table are now enabled.