Creating participants

To create a participant, you need to know, at minimum, the following information about the participant:

For each participant (including the Community Manager) you want to add to the hub community, follow this procedure:

  1. Click Account Admin > Profiles > Community Participant.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Enter the name the participant will use when logging in to the hub.
  4. Enter the company name or some other descriptive name for the participant.
  5. Select the type of participant. Note that WebSphere Business Integration Connect supports only one Community Manager and one Community Operator. If you are setting up the Community Manager, select Community Manager. Otherwise, select Community Participant.
  6. Select the status for the participant. When you are creating a participant, you will probably want to use the default value of Enabled.
  7. Optionally enter the type of company in the Vendor field.
  8. Optionally enter the Web site of the participant.
  9. Click New under Business ID.
  10. Specify a type from the list, and enter the appropriate identifier. WebSphere Business Integration Connect uses the number you enter here to route the document to and from the participant.

    Observe the following guidelines when typing the identifier:

    1. DUNS numbers must equal nine digits.
    2. DUNS+4 must equal 13 digits.
    3. Freeform ID numbers accept up to 60 alphanumeric and special characters.

    Note: You can assign more than one business ID to a participant. In some cases, more than one Business ID is required. For example, when the hub sends and receives EDI-X12 or EDIFACT documents, it uses both the DUNS and Freeform IDs during the document exchange.

    The Freeform ID is formed by inserting a hyphen (-) between the second and third digits of the DUNS. For example, if the DUNS ID is 810810810, the required Freeform would be 81-0810810. Both the Community Manager and the participants involved in these types of document flows should have both a DUNS and Freeform ID.

  11. Optionally enter an IP address for the participant by performing the following steps:
    1. Under IP Address, click New.
    2. Specify the gateway type.
    3. Enter the IP address of the participant.
  12. Click Save.

When you create a participant, you are actually creating the Admin user for that participant. Admin users can then create individual users within their organizations, or, as Hub Admin, you can create the users for the participants.

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