Transmission category

Transmission type is made up of Interchange types.

An Inbound Transmission type is made up of Inbound Interchange types. For example, an EDIFACT Inbound Transmission type is made up of EDIFACT Inbound Interchange types and a Partner EDIFACT Inbound Transmission type is made up of Partner EDIFACT Inbound Interchange types.

The Partner type represents a generic trading partner. If you are trading with different partners who use different subsets of the EDIFACT standards, you might want to rename the Partner type and add then add new types to define the additional trading partners.

The components of Outbound Transmission types are similar to those of Inbound.

The following group windows display the components of the Inbound and Outbound subtypes of Transmission. The Partner Inbound Transmission EDI group window illustrates that it is made up of Partner Inbound Interchange types and that the Partner Outbound Transmission EDI group window illustrates that it is made up of Partner Outbound Interchange types.