How You Set Up Trading Partners

The way you set up outbound and inbound messaging is different for trading partners that use a service provider, as an intermediary for exchanging messages, and those that don't.

If your trading partner is using a user-defined service provider (as opposed to one that's predefined for you), make sure that you have already completed setup for your service provider before associating it with a trading partner. In particular, you will need to set up the delivery methods and collaboration messages to exchange. Once those tasks are complete, all you need to do is select the service provider you want to use and the documents that you want to exchange. See the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers chapter for more information.

If a service provider isn't being used, and B2B messaging is handled directly with a trading partner, then you need to define the delivery methods you want to use and the collaboration messages to exchange.