You must set up profiles for all the trading partners with whom you want to exchange documents. Define profiles for:
When you define trading partner profiles, you need to specify the external IDs your partners use in their documents. The external IDs correspond to the standard EDI ID qualifiers.
Trading Networks does not provide external IDs for all EDI ID qualifiers; however,
Module for EDI provides a way for you to add them to
Trading Networks. Before creating the profiles, you might want to add additional external ID types to
Trading Networks that correspond to the EDI ID qualifiers. For more information, see
Adding External ID Types for EDI ID
Qualifiers.
Your own corporation if you have not already done so. This is referred to as the Enterprise profile in Trading Networks.
When you use non-standard processing, you must create profiles only for partners at the group level. For more information, see
Defining
Trading Networks Profiles When Using Non-Standard Processing. For more information about the difference between standard and non-standard processing, see webMethods Module for EDI Concepts Guide .