The Routing Criteria

The routing criteria—the Sender, Receiver, and Message Type values—determine which rule is selected at run time. They uniquely identify a routing rule and act as the trigger for the rule’s routing action. You can also use a wildcard character (*) to match all Sender, Receiver, or Message Type values.

This parameter...	Specifies...
Sender	An arbitrary string that identifies who sent the document, or a wildcard character (*).
Receiver	An arbitrary string that identifies the document’s destination, or a wildcard character (*).
Message Type	An arbitrary string that specifies what type of information is in the document (e.g., a purchase order, a credit memo, an invoice, and so forth), or a wildcard character (*).

As noted previously, the values that you use as routing criteria are arbitrary or they can be wildcards (*). They do not need to specify a physical address or document. The routing criteria should match the sender, receiver, and msgType values that are submitted with the document. For example, if your trading partner submits invoices under a sender value of MtnPaintPurch003, a receiver value of BboardsAP, and a msgType of Invoice, the Sender, Receiver, and Message Type values in your routing rule must match these strings letter for letter. (These values are case sensitive).