Adding a Contact

About this task

Use the following procedures to define contacts that are associated with a particular trading partner or particular application partner. You can also define administrative contacts that are not associated with a trading partner.

This information is defined for your convenience and may be used to format e-mail message headers, compose letters using your default word processor, or route data to appropriate people when Alert conditions are detected.

To add a contact

Procedure

In the Address Book navigator, click Internal > folder or External > folder to display the Address Book form, where folder is EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, or X12.
Select a partner from the Trading Partner list or Application Partner list.
Click Contacts in the area for the partner selected.
The Contact List appears, listing any contacts defined for the selected partner.
Click Add in the Contact List dialog box.
The Add a Contact dialog box appears.
Enter the contact information.
Select an alert option from the Alert Options group box. (This option is only available for contacts associated with internal trading/application partners).
Click OK.
Click Save.