Create a Collaboration Message Definition

You can create a collaboration message definition to exchange messages with your trading partner.

Follow these steps:

1. In the B2B Messaging work area, select B2B Message Definitions task.

2. On the Collaboration Message Definitions tab, select Addto create a new message definition and enter the details.

   This table describes the fields you need to enter to create a collaboration message definition.

   Field	Description
   Name	Name of the collaboration message definition.
   External Message Definition	An external message definition is a representation of a document type in a specific format, the list displayed may be either user defined or predefined.
   Messaging Standard	A unique name for a group of messages defined by an organization or entity, for example, OAG.
   Version	Version of the standard being used.
   Message Type	A unique XML schema definition for a document type. It's the root element of the payload.
   Message Subtype	A unique value to identify a message when many messages have the same root element.
   Document	The document to which you map the external message type. It may be inbound or outbound.
   Description	Description for the collaboration message definition.
   Application Partner Code Path	A path that identifies the location of the Oracle Fusion application partner code in a trading partner XML payload. If you define an application partner code XPath and provide a value for the application partner code in the payload, it's used to derive the supplier site ID for the inbound message.
   Object Key Path	A path that identifies the location of the object key in an XML payload. For example, invoice number is the object key in the invoice XML file. This is used for inbound message definitions.
   XSL File	The file used for the transformation.
   Payload Template	An XML sample that's used for testing or validating the message set up.

3. • Select an XSL File for your collaboration message transformation.

   • Select a Payload Template to be used when validating an inbound or an outbound document set up.

4. Click Save and Close.

The message definition name is suffixed with _CUST for user defined collaboration messages.