Trading Networks 10.3 | Administering and Monitoring B2B Transactions | webMethods Module for EDI | Defining Trading Partner Information When Using TRADACOMS | Defining Trading Partner Profiles When Using TRADACOMS | External ID Types When Using TRADACOMS
 
External ID Types When Using TRADACOMS
 
Optionally Configuring the External ID Types When Using TRADACOMS
The sender and receiver of a TRADACOMS transmission must be identified in Trading Networks. To identify senders and receivers, Trading Networks can use information in the transmission's STX segment to look up a partner profile for the sender and receiver of a document. That information will be associated with the BizDocEnvelope created for the transmission.
The external ID types that Module for EDI automatically installs (Tradacoms Code and Tradacoms Name) correspond to the STX segment's FROM and UNTO data elements. Each data element is a composite with two optional fields: Code and Name. Either or both of these fields can be used to identify the sender or receiver of a TRADACOMS transmission.
When Trading Networks examines partner profiles to look up a sender or receiver, the following four possibilities can result, depending on which fields have values:
Code present?
Name present?
Result
No
No
Unknown trading partner
Yes
No
Uses Code to look up trading partner
No
Yes
Uses Name to look up trading partner
Yes
Yes
Uses both Name and Code to look up trading partner
For example:
If the sender's FROM data element contains...
Then the sender will be the trading partner with...
Code=ABC
-and-
Name field is empty
The external ID type Tradacoms Code defined as ABC.
Code field is empty
-and-
Name=ABC
The external ID type Tradacoms Name defined as ABC.
Code field=ABC
-and-
Name field=XYZ
Both of the following:
*The external ID type Tradacoms Code defined as ABC and
*The external ID type Tradacoms Name defined as XYZ
Note:
To use only Tradacoms Code to look up partners when both Code and Name have values, see Optionally Configuring the External ID Types When Using TRADACOMS.