Partners

A partner is an Interchange object that represents a sender or receiver in a message-processing definition.

Partners can exist without being associated with a community, however partners must belong to a community for trading to occur.

Significant elements of a partner object are:

• The partner name.
• A routing ID to use as a routing reference in the user interface.
• (Optionally) One or more delivery exchanges for sending documents to the partner.
• For secure trading, the partner’s certificate and public key for encrypting the messages you send.

Related topics

• Add a partner
• Modify a partner
• Group partners by categories
• Use the partner search tool
• Backup and restore
• Delete a partner