Document submission

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Business Partners exchange documents through channels that you create in webMethods B2B Integration. Before the actual document exchange, submit a sample document and validate the processing flow of the document from webMethods B2B Integration. Validating the processing flow confirms that you configured the partners, document attributes, document types, and processing rules properly. The submitted document picks the intended assets for processing.

When you submit a custom EDI document type through the Document submission page, webMethods B2B Integration does not recognize it as a custom EDI document, as intended. However, webMethods B2B Integration recognizes it as any other inbound EDI document type and the appropriate processing rule takes it up for further processing.

You can submit business documents manually without using channels on the Transactions page by clicking the document submission icon. webMethods B2B Integration allows submission of EDI and XML documents.

Submitting a document

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Submitting documents allows validation and helps ensure an error-free document exchange between partners.

Before you begin

  • You must have a sample EDI or XML document with valid data to submit.
  • The sample document must not exceed 2 MB.

Procedure

  1. In webMethods B2B Integration, from the side navigation menu, click Monitoring > Transactions and click Document submission icon.
  2. In the Document submission dialog, select the type of document to submit.

    Select XML, when uploading a file with .xml extension.

    Select EDI, when uploading a file with .txt extension.

    All the available encodings are listed in the Encoding field. From this list, select your preferred encoding type.

    Note: For all the supported EDI document types such as VDA, UNEDIFACT, X12, TRADACOMS, select EDI. Alternatively, you can also copy and paste the content of the document.
  3. Click Submit.

What to do next

To view the details of the transaction, click the timestamp of the transaction. For more information, see Viewing Transactions.