Document attributes

Identify the pieces of document content you need to process documents. For example, you might be interested in document senders and receivers, or the total amounts of purchase orders.

Document types

Define document types for documents you and your trading partners will exchange. Document types are definitions that represent particular categories of documents (for example, XML or flat file). The document type can represent an industry standard, such as a cXML Purchase Order, FIXML Quote Request, or Biztalk Envelope, or a custom standard, such as a purchase order format that you and a partner have agreed on.

Document types can also specify actions to perform for documents, such as saving documents to the Trading Networks database.

Processing rules

Specify actions to perform for documents, such as delivering documents to partners.

Profiles

Identify your corporation and the corporations of the partners in your trading network, and specify how to connect to each other and exchange documents.

Trading Partner Agreements (TPAs)

Specify transaction-dependent information that is specific to a group of transactions between two trading partners. A transaction is the passage of a document through Trading Networks.