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Chapter 5 Setting Up Trading Partners : Control Numbers Tab

Control Numbers Tab
Use the Control Numbers tab to specify settings which affect the validation or generation of control numbers for this trading partner. The inbound settings affect the validation of control numbers in documents received from this trading partner. The outbound settings affect the generation of control numbers to be included in documents sent to this trading partner.
For more information on control numbers, see TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream, User’s Guide, "Control Number Management."
Selections are True and False.
None   No validation is performed.
Incremental   Successive interchange control numbers must increase by 1.
Chronological   Successive interchange control numbers must increase by >= 1.
None   No validation is performed.
Incremental   Successive group control numbers must increase by 1.
Chronological   Successive group control numbers must increase by >= 1.
If you select Incremental, you must avoid some possible problems. See TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream, User’s Guide, "Senders and Receivers Falling out of Sync with Incremental Control Numbers."
None  No validation is performed.
Incremental  Successive transaction control numbers must increase by 1.
Chronological  Successive transaction control numbers must increase by >= 1.
Select True (default) or False.
When checked as True, the transaction control number can be generated as unique and sequentially for all outbound transactions.
Click the Delimiters tab.

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