To add a new (external) Trading Partner to exchange documents, you will need to receive its ’Partner Configuration’ elements that includes its AS2 Identifier, Certificate (in PEM or DER formats), and the URL and asynchronous MDN URL at a minimum. This information can easily be saved or emailed if the other trading partner is also using the AdroitLogic AS2Gateway.

The basic configuration options are greatly simplified to allow easy configuration by specifying only a very few and important aspects of a new Trading Partner - such as its AS2 Identifier, and the Name it will be referred to by the AS2Gateway, its certificate in PEM or DER encoding and its communication URL and asynchronous MDN URL.

Advanced communication options can be configured by selecting the 'Show Advanced Options' button displayed when adding a new Trading partner.

The advanced options can specify a default message subject to be used when communicating with this trading partner. In addition, security and compression options such as Signing, Encryption, and Compression (before/after signing or encryption) can be turned on or off, and MDN options such as requesting for a MDN on sending messages and if the MDN should be signed and/or asynchronous can be configured.

The Trading Partners list shows the currently configured trading partners of the organization. You may select 'View Trading Partners’link from the 'Quick Access' menu or the Dashboard. The partner actions from this list will allow you to quickly open the Received,Queued, Sent and Failed messages against this trading partner, and also to Send a new message to it.