Hi,

May i know the difference between Trading partner agreement (TPA) and processing rules.

Regards,
Raju

Optionally, you can define trading partner agreements for pairs of partners. Each TPA contains specific information for two trading partners, where one partner represents a sender and the other represents the receiver. You can create applications that use TPA information to tailor how documents are exchanged.

Each TPA must have a unique combination of the following:

Partner that represents the sender

Partner that represents the receiver

Type of TPA, represented by the "Agreement ID"

TPA field TPA1 TPA2
Partner that represents the sender A B
Partner that represents the receiver B A
Type of TPA(Agreement ID) EDITPA EDITPA


Where as Processing rules defined on the below set:
1) Sender
2) Receiver
3) Document type
If the incoming document type matches the above criteria then the defined action which could be invoking a flow service, sending an email, etc..

Refer the below two blogs to understand these concepts better:

http://idnxchange.com/webmethods-blogs/webmethods-step-by-step-creation-of-trading-partner-agreement.html

http://idnxchange.com/webmethods-blogs/webmethods-step-by-step-xml-over-trading-networks.html