Creating EDI Trading Partner Agreements
An EDI Trading Partner Agreement (EDITPA) is a set of variables that you specify to tailor how the module processes documents that are exchanged between two trading partners. For example, an EDITPA contains the split option variable, which indicates what level of documents (for example, Transaction, Group, or Interchange) you want to process.
Module for EDI supports partner-specific EDITPAs and a single default EDITPA.
A partner-specific EDITPA has a specific sender and receiver associated with it. It is specific to which partner represents the sender and which partner represents the receiver; therefore, you might have two EDITPAs for one trading partner pair. For example, for trading partners A and B, you might have one EDITPA where trading partner A is the sender and B is the receiver and another for when B is the sender and A is the receiver.
A partner-specific EDITPA contains partner-specific variables used by only the particular pair of trading partners (sender and receiver) that are defined in the EDITPA.
A default EDITPA has a sender and receiver set to “unknown.” It contains variables used by all trading partners when partner-specific information is not available. That is, the module uses the values in the default EDITPA if a partner-specific EDITPA does not exist or if the value in the partner-specific EDITPA is null or empty.
For more information about setting up the default and partner-specific EDITPAs and defining EDITPAs variables, see webMethods Module for EDI Installation and User’s Guide.