AutoForward Partnership

A group trade partnership allows you to set up a partnership between the yourself and a group EDI address. Trading Grid Online then sends a copy of each document that you send to this Group to the other partners in the Group via a distribution list.

The AutoForward partnership feature automatically forwards interchanges that you receive to another EDI Address. For example, a large department store sends Purchase Orders to you. Your Sales organization requires a copy of the POs, but the department store does not sent the POs to them. The AutoForward feature automatically forwards the Purchase Orders to the Sales organization on your behalf.

With AutoForwarding, the data flows as follows between trading partners. PartnerA sends to PartnerB. OpenText then AutoForwards the data from PartnerB to PartnerC. In this scenario, before an AutoForward partnership is set up, there must be active trading partnerships between:

PartnerA and PartnerB

PartnerB and PartnerC

Use the AutoCopy feature to send one interchange to multiple receivers. First, create a Distribution List which has its own valid EDI address. Then send an interchange to the receiver EDI address, which is the Distribution List. Trading Grid Online sends a copy of the interchange to each member in the Distribution List.

Before setting up an AutoCopy Distribution List, active trading partnerships between the sender's EDI address and each of the EDI addresses defined in the Distribution List must be set up. A partnership between the sender's address and the Distribution List EDI address is not required.

Important: See “AutoForward Implications” on page 334.

16.2 release. Updated October 23, 2016 Trading Grid Online User Guide PDF

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