Creating participant profiles

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:

  1. Click Account Admin > Profiles > Community Participant.
  2. Click Create.
  3. For Company Login Name, enter the name the participant will use in the Company field when logging in to the hub.
  4. For Participant Display Name, enter the company name or some other descriptive name for the participant. This is the name that appears on the Participant Search list.
  5. Select the type of participant. Because WebSphere Partner Gateway can have only one Community Manager and one Community Operator, your choice is limited to 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 Partner Gateway 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 and EDIFACT documents, it uses both the DUNS and Freeform IDs during the document exchange.

    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.

  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.
  13. You will be presented with a password that the participant will use to log on to the hub. Make a note of this password. You will provide it to the participant Admin user.

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:

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