This chapter details the conversion of a student's SPEEDE/ExPRESS Transaction Set 130 - Student Educational Record (Transcript) sent from a postsecondary institution into the FASTER P00-P08 record formats. The incoming SPEEDE/ExPRESS records are first edited to make sure that all components of the transaction are valid based on SPEEDE/ExPRESS standards and conventions before the records are considered for conversion into FASTER. Transactions which violate SPEEDE/ExPRESS rules will cause a NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Transaction Set (TS997) to be returned to the sender indicating that an error was detected. In this case, no record of the transaction is forwarded to the addressed Florida institution. Violations of SPEEDE/ExPRESS rules include mandatory segments or fields missing, segment sequencing errors, and invalid field values.

Some fields and/or field values, although valid for SPEEDE, have no counterpart in the FASTER system. For the most part, these data are not converted to FASTER, that is, they are ignored. However, a subset of these data has been determined to be important enough to warrant a P04 REMARK record.

In this chapter the incoming SPEEDE/ExPRESS data is detailed in column one, SPEEDE Transaction Set 130 - Student Educational Record (Transcript), Source Segment Name, Position and Data Elements. These are identified as to segment name, segment position within TS130 and data element position within segment.

FASTER target data elements are identified in column two, FASTER Postsecondary Record Conversion Specifics, along with details of how the data are mapped to FASTER data elements. The field coding convention used in column two is 'Pnn-mmm' where nn is the format number (00 through 08) and mmm is the field's Item Number based on the 2011-2012 version of the FASTER User Manual.

Special data element conversion labels:

Details of the mapping of the SPEEDE/ExPRESS outermost envelopes, ISA/IEA, GS/GE, and ST/SE are found in Chapter 6.