The HL7 standards use schemas to define message structures. Actian provides schemas for HL7 version 2.1 through 2.6. If required, modify the schemas using the Schema editor. For HL7 version 3.0 and higher, the XML connector and schemas can be used instead. For more details, resources, and training references, see the official HL7 web site at www.hl7.org.

The schemas provide the following:

To run successfully, transformations for HL7 messages must match the schemas. During map validation, it validates the rules defined in schema. It mainly checks whether the required segment or field is available or not.