Defining HL7 Trading Partner Agreements

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Using the Default TPA

Creating a Partner-Specific TPA

Every TPA is uniquely identified by a Sender, Receiver, and an Agreement ID. During a transaction between trading partners, HL7 Module uses this information to retrieve the TPAs for the initiator/sender and fulfiller/receiver in the transaction and to process the business documents exchanged. Every message that is exchanged in HL7 Module is associated with a TPA.

You define and view TPAs in My webMethods on the Administration > Integration > B2B > Trading Partner Agreements page. For detailed information about working with TPAs in My webMethods, see the webMethods Trading Networks Administrator’s Guide.

Note:
You must configure at least one TPA (or use the default HL7 Module TPA) to be able to execute message transactions.

With HL7 Module, you can create a TPA in one of the following ways:

Create a default TPA. HL7 Module automatically creates a default TPA when you run the module for the first time. Use the default TPA to meet the requirements of the majority of your trading partners.

The default TPA is created with the following values:

Parameter	Value
Agreement ID	HL7TPA
Sender	Unknown
Receiver	Unknown

During message processing, HL7 Module first searches for a TPA with unique values for the Sender, Receiver, and the Agreement ID, and a Status value of agreed. If that TPA exists, HL7 Module uses it. If no such TPA exists, the module uses the default TPA.

Create a partner-specific TPA. Use this option when you must define partner-specific values in the TPA fields that are different from the default values in the HL7 Module default TPA. When creating a partner-specific TPA, you have to specify only the information that is different from the defaults.