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Managing Business Profiles

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A business profile represents the business divisions within of an organization. Just like an organization can have various divisions, a party can have various business profiles.

A business profile represents a business division in an organization. Just like an organization can have many divisions (accounting, purchase, shipping, etc.), a party can have many business profiles, each representing a business division in an organization. Business profile properties contain the following information:

  • General information such as business profile name

  • Unique identities that can be associated with a business profile

  • Encoding settings (for X12 and EDIFACT messages) and protocol settings (AS2) that defines how the business profile can send or receive messages from another party.

This topic shows you how to create, view, edit, or delete a business profile.

Prerequisites

You must be logged on as a member of the BizTalk Server Administrators or BizTalk Server B2B Operators group.

Create a business profile

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, expand the BizTalk group, and select Parties.

  2. In the Parties and Business Profiles pane, right-click a party, select New, and then select Business Profile.

  3. In the General tab, do the following:

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    Name Enter a business profile name.
    Description Enter a description for the business profile.
    Additional Properties – Name / Value Enter a name-value pair to store any information about the party. You can add as many name-value pairs as you want. Note: The name-value pairs are not used by the BizTalk Server for any processing; this data is for information purposes only.
    Delete Select to delete the selected name-value pair.

  4. If required, add business identities for the business profiles. In the Identities tab, do the following:

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    Adding business identities at this stage is not mandatory. You can add the business identities later, as part of an agreement for the business profile. If you chose to add the business identifies now, they are available while creating an agreement for this business profile.

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    Name Select the empty cell, and from the drop-down grid, select an authenticating body that provides unique business identities to organizations. For example, D-U-N-S (Dun & Bradstreet). Two business partners can opt for a mutually agreed business identity. For such scenarios, select Mutually Defined (for EDIFACT) or Mutually Defined (X12) (for X12).
    Qualifier Displays a predefined value based on the value you selected for Name.
    Value Enter a value for the business identity. You must make the following considerations while providing a value for business identities.

    - For a given party, you can have more than one business profile using the same combination of identity name and identity value. For example, you can have two business profiles for a party with Name as Mutually Defined (X12) and Value as THEM.
    - Across parties, you cannot have two business profiles using the same combination of identity name and identity value.
    Remove Select to remove the selected identity.

  5. If required, add the protocol settings for X12-encoded messages, EDIFACT-encoded messages, or the protocol settings for AS2 transport. See Configuring Business Profile Properties.

  6. Select Apply to accept the properties, or select OK to complete the configuration setting. Either action validates the settings.

View or change a business profile

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, select Parties.

  2. In the Parties and Business Profiles pane, expand a party node to see the business profiles under it. Right-click a business profile you want to edit, and then select Properties.

  3. In the Profile Properties dialog box, view or edit the profile. For information on the values that can be specified on the different pages in the Profile Properties dialog box, see Configuring Business Profile Properties.

  4. Select Apply to accept the properties, or select OK to complete the configuration setting. Either action validates the settings.

Delete a business profile

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, select Parties.

  2. In the Parties and Business Profiles pane, expand a party node to see the business profiles under it.

  3. Right-click the business profile you want to delete, and then select Delete.

  4. In the Confirm delete business profile dialog box, select Yes to delete the business profile.

See Also

Managing EDI and AS2 Solutions