Outbox Transport Type

This the outgoing Links "Outbox" transport type used by Link, used when messages are not being pushed out to the receiver. Once a message is sent to Outbox, it will stay there unless it is pulled by a receiver. The most common way this is done, is through the Bizbrain's webservice called 'Receivesite'. Using the webservice a partner can make a request to the Outbox, checking whether any messages are present and ready for pickup. is actually a message queue used for non-standard asynchronous transport types.

The requirements / design of these solutions will differ greatly, but basically, messages can be picked up one by one from the queue through the REST API and after successful delivery to the final endpoint, the document status can be switched to "Completed".

If a distribution has "Outbox" as it's outgoing transport type, the document status will be set to "Outbox" when the document is ready to be sent. Only after the document has been picked up and is successfully sent to the receiver will the document status go to "Completed".

Developers should read more in the REST API documentation.