Partners

A ‘Partner’ in Link, is a company or an internal system that send and/or receives messages through Link. 

In Link, there can be two different types of partners: internal and external. An internal partner is an endpoint (typically of an application) within your organization. External partners are your business partners that you are exchanging 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 see the available options.

Search

Click this to open the 'Partner Search' page. From 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. This is done via the 'New Partner' page. 

Import partners

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