Step 4: Create EDI Trading Partner Agreements
A trading partner agreement (TPA) is a Trading Networks object that defines how messages are exchanged between two trading partners. An EDI trading partner agreement (EDITPA) is a trading partner agreement that contains Module for EDI-specific settings. The EDITPA contains a set of variables that you provide to tailor how Module for EDI splits HIPAA messages.
Module for EDI supports both partner-specific and default EDITPAs. A partner-specific EDITPA contains variables specific to a pair of trading partners, where one is defined as the sender, and the other the receiver. If a partner-specific EDITPA is not defined, or if a value in a partner-specific EDITPA is not set, Module for EDI uses its default EDITPA. For more information about EDITPAs, see documentation for Module for EDI.
You must define EDITPAs for envelope sender/receiver pairs identified in the ISA headers of the HIPAA messages that you exchange, either by:
Using the default EDITPA for all envelope-level sender/receiver pairs.
Creating partner-specific EDITPAs for the envelope-level sender/receiver pairs.
For complete steps to create EDITPAs, see the webMethods Module for EDI Installation and User’s Guide . The following table shows the EDITPA settings for Module for EDI.
Note:
Module for EDI only uses the EDITPA variables listed in this table. You can set the values of the other EDITPA variables (not listed below) to any value you choose.
EDITPA variable... | Value to use for the Module for EDI |
splitOption | Interchange, Group, or Transaction |
GSRouting/routingMode | OFF This variable indicates the value for sender and receiver that Module for EDI should add to the Envelope, Group, and Transaction documents split from the HIPAA message. OFF indicates that Module for EDI uses the sender and receiver from the ISA header for all types of documents. |