EFI Electronic Format Identification

To provide basic information about the electronic format of the interchange data

Position: EFI-01 · Element: 786 · Name: Security Level Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating the level of confidentiality assigned by the sender to the information following

Position: EFI-02 · Element: 933 · Name: Free-form Message Text · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 264 · Repeat: 1

Free-form message text

Position: EFI-03 · Element: 797 · Name: Security Technique Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating that this element will be used to tell an EDI translator program which security technique to use

Position: EFI-04 · Element: 799 · Name: Version Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Revision level of a particular format, program, technique or algorithm

Position: EFI-05 · Element: 802 · Name: Program Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Identifies the name of the software program from which the technical data originates

C0504: If EFI-05 is present, then EFI-04 is required

Position: EFI-06 · Element: 799 · Name: Version Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Revision level of a particular format, program, technique or algorithm

Position: EFI-07 · Element: 801 · Name: Interchange Format · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Industry or proprietary standard used to identify the format of the data

C0706: If EFI-07 is present, then EFI-06 is required

Position: EFI-08 · Element: 799 · Name: Version Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Revision level of a particular format, program, technique or algorithm

Position: EFI-09 · Element: 800 · Name: Compression Technique · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Identifies the digital data compression means and the type

C0908: If EFI-09 is present, then EFI-08 is required

Position: EFI-10 · Element: 789 · Name: Drawing Sheet Size Code · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating the drawing size and orientation of a technical drawing as specified and described in the current version of standards ANSI Y14.1 and ISO 5457 (E); see the listed ANSI and ISO standards for the maximum lengths for rolled sheets *

Position: EFI-11 · Element: 803 · Name: File Name · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 64 · Repeat: 1

Name assigned or declared for a file or used by a program to identify a file; exact format of the name depends on the computer operating system being used; name also may be known as the file's "data set name"

Position: EFI-12 · Element: 804 · Name: Block Type · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 4 · Repeat: 1

Organization of a data block such as fixed length, variable length, spanned, etc. Synonym for "data format"

Position: EFI-13 · Element: 787 · Name: Record Length · Type: Numeric (N) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 15 · Repeat: 1

Quantity of characters or bytes in a record. Synonyms are "logical record length" and "record size"

Position: EFI-14 · Element: 788 · Name: Block Length · Type: Numeric (N) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 5 · Repeat: 1

Quantity of data elements in a block, usually specified in units such as records, words or characters; synonym for "block size"

Position: EFI-15 · Element: 799 · Name: Version Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Revision level of a particular format, program, technique or algorithm

P1516: If either EFI-15 or EFI-16 is present, then the other is required

Position: EFI-16 · Element: 1570 · Name: Filter ID Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 3 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying the type of filter used to convert data code values