Partners

A ‘Partner’ in Link, is a company or an internal system that sends send and/or receives messages through the Link solution. However, a partner can also be an internal system that needs to be identified individually.There is a clear distinction between internal and external partners 

In Link, there can be two different types of partners: internal and external. An internal partner is the company that owns the Link installation or a subdivision of itan endpoint (typically of an application) within your organization. External partners are the companies your business partners that you are exchanging documents with the internal partner(s).data with.

Note that it also possible to categorize a partner as Proxy partners. This is relevant when you are communicating with external partners through a broker or a VANS operator. 

In this part of the user guide you will learn how to create, manage and search for partners. 

Hover your mouse cursor over the Partners menu item in the left hand menu, to get a list of options, or press it to see a list of partners.

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Search

Click this to open the 'Partner Search' page. From here you can search among the different partners in your Link solution. 

there you will be able to find and edit existing partners including adding Partner tags to them.

New partner

Press this to start creating a new partner. You will be redirected to This is done via the 'New Partner' page. From here you can input partner information such as name and identification numbers.

Import partners

Click here to import a list of partners from another Link solution. A pop-up will be displayed, allowing you to select the a file on your local hard drive and then import it. You can read more information about this in the Import of partners article.