To create a participant, you need to know, at minimum, the following information about the participant:
For each participant you want to add to the hub community, follow this procedure:
Observe the following guidelines when typing the identifier:
Both the Community Manager and the participants involved in these types of document flows should have both a DUNS and Freeform ID. The Freeform ID is used to represent EDI IDs that have both an identifier and a qualifier. For example, suppose the EDI qualifier is "ZZ" and the EDI identifier is "810810810". The Freeform ID could be specified as ZZ-810810810.
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.
After you create a profile for a participant, establish the gateways that the hub will use to send documents to the participant. Refer to the following sections for setting up gateways for participants: