Trading Partner components

A Trading Partner component contains the configuration details for your company or for a trading partner.

Create one Trading Partner component for your company and another for each company with which you will conduct an EDI interchange. To help distinguish between the two components, Component Explorer contains My Company Settings and Trading Partner Settings under the Trading Partners grouping.

Trading Partner component configuration settings are extensible except where noted in the description of a given setting.

• Overview tab - Shows the selected standard, which is set when you create the Trading Partner component and cannot be changed. You can set the identifier and organization.

• Standard tab - Configure settings related to the specific standard you selected for the trading partner. Boomi supports the following EDI standards:

  • CUSTOM
  • EDIFACT
  • HL7
  • ODETTE
  • RosettaNet
  • TRADACOMS
  • X12

• Contact Info tab - Records the partner's name, address, and identifiers for reference. It has no effect on input or output data.

• Communication tab - Defines the communication methods used to send and receive documents.

• Document Types tab - Selects the document types to exchange, sets acknowledgment and validation options, and configures tracked fields.

• Archiving tab - Archives documents that pass through the partner to a local directory on the Runtime machine.

• Where Used tab - Shows the processes that reference the selected trading partner.