CUSTOMIZABLE BIDIRECTIONAL EDI TRANSLATION SYSTEM

摘要

An electronic forms application presents a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display of a computer. The GUI includes a plurality of information accepting fields which accept entry of, and present information in, human readable form (Figure 4a, numerals 41, 42 and 45-47). The electronic forms application is operative to accept an EDI transmission (Figure 2, numeral 130), translate the EDI data into human-readable form and present the data in the information accepting fields of the GUI. The electronic forms application is further operative to accept and verify information manually entered into the information accepting fields of the GUI, extract the information entered into the information accepting fields, translate the information into EDI data and transmit the EDI data to a destination location.