Conformance Profiles

Validate against implementation guide-specific rules

Conformance validation applies rules from specific implementation guides (IGs) that constrain the base HL7 specification. An IG may require fields that are optional in the base spec, restrict allowed values, or add custom validation logic.

How Profiles Work

Select a Profile

Open the Rules dropdown (scale icon) in the parser toolbar to choose an implementation guide profile or custom rule set.

Profile Rules Are Applied

The validator layers profile constraints on top of the base schema validation. Profile rules can tighten requirements but never loosen them.

Review Conformance Issues

Profile-specific issues appear in the Validation Panel with a distinct icon. Each issue references the profile rule that triggered it.

Custom Profiles

You can create custom conformance profiles to enforce your organization's messaging requirements. The Profile Manager (opened via "Manage Validation Rules…" in the toolbar's Rules dropdown, or from the parser Settings' validation-profiles tab) lets you define field-level rules, required segments, and value constraints.

Enable conformance validation by selecting one or more rule sets from the Rules dropdown in the toolbar (choose Base Schema Only to turn it off). With the "Auto-select from MSH-21" setting enabled, the profile named in the message's MSH-21 field is applied automatically. Conformance rules combine with schema and terminology validation for comprehensive checking.