Setting Up a Partner

To set up a trading partner, you have to perform the following tasks:

Creating a Partner

To create and set up the default partner, perform the following steps:

  1. On the Partner Management tile, click Partner.

  2. On the Partner page, click Create Partner.

  3. On the Create New Partner page, in the Partner Name field, enter the name of the partner as Company2.

  4. Click Proceed > Done.

Enabling the EDIFACT Protocol for Partner

All EDI protocols are enabled by default after installation. To configure and activate any of the protocols, you must disable all other protocols that are not configured. After the protocols are configured, you can enable or disable them at any time. This procedure is needed only when configuring protocols for the first time.

  1. Select the partner for which you want to enable the EDIFACT protocol.

  2. If protocols have not been enabled:

    1. Select the check box for the EDIFACT protocol.

Setting the Interchange Qualifier and ID for the Partner

To set the Interchange Qualifier and ID for the partner:

  1. On the Create New Partner or the Edit Partner page, click Edit Configurations for EDIFACT protocol.

  2. Click the Add New Identifier icon next to the Default Interchange Qualifier ID field.

  3. In the Add New dialog box, select the domain type a 1 and enter 987654321 in the ID field.

  4. From the Default Interchange Qualifier ID list, select 987654321.

  5. Click Save.

Enabling Outbound EDI Validation

This procedure describes how to enable outbound EDI validation.

  1. On the Create New Partner or the Edit Partner page, click Edit Configurations for EDIFACT protocol.

  2. In the Outbound area of the General tab, select the Enable EDI Validation check box.

  3. Click Save to save the configurations.

Setting the Transport

  1. On the Create New Partner or the Edit Partner page, select the EDIFACT protocol from the available list of protocols and click Edit Configurations.

  2. On the EDIFACT Configurations page, click Transport.

  3. To add new transport, click Add or Add Outbound Transport tab.

  4. In the Add Transport dialog box, enter the name of the transport and select the FILE Outbound transport from the drop-down list.

  5. In the URL field, enter the sample folder URL for Linux: file:///opt/FilePoller/Outbound, where /opt/FilePoller is the NFS (sharing) mounted on the machine.

    Setting NFS

    To set NFS to be applicable during deployment, perform the following steps:

    1. Go to the <folder>/bcce-1.2.0/deployment/config folder and open deployment.properties file.

    2. Scroll down to find the property for Mounting NFS as below:
      "mount_path=<mounted_folder>".
      For example: "mount_path=/opt/FilePoller", where NFS is mounted on FilePoller folder on the machine.

    3. Deploy Poller Server. If the poller server is already deployed, re-deploy it for changes to be applied.