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	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Collecting messages by business partner</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>EDI messages</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>EDI messages by business partner</Level1>
			<Level2>collecting</Level2>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>You must specify the dummy message, defined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec/edi/ecedi0100s000" role="session">EDI Parameters (ecedi0100s000)</GUIRef>, if you intend to collect all messages for a business partner. The <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec/edi/ecedi0128s000#ecedi028.batt" role="formfield">New Batch Number</GUIRef> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec/edi/ecedi0128s000" role="session">Business Partner EDI Data by Network (ecedi0128s000)</GUIRef> session is <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec/domains/edi.batt#recipient" role="enum">By Recipient</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>If you choose to collect all messages for a business partner, the file structure will be:</Paragraph>
		<Formula><Paragraph UserLevel="Novice" UserType="Taskuser">
   +-------------------+
   | bano | neta | ... |                     1)
   +-------------------+
          +-----------------------------+
          | bano | neta | INVOICE | ... |    2)
          +-----------------------------+
                  - invoice1                 3)
                  - invoice2
                  .
                  .
          +-----------------------------+
          | bano | neta | ORDERS  | ... |    2)
          +-----------------------------+
                  - order1                   3)
                  - order2
</Paragraph>
		</Formula>
		<List><ListIntro>When you generate messages:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Interchange Header Conversion Setup, described in the dummy message. This record is created once for each business partner.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Message Overhead Conversion Setup, described in the dummy message. This record is created for each group of messages. The layout is retrieved from the dummy message to prevent the generation of message overhead records with different layouts.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Conversion Setup Code, the layout as specified for the message.</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
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