About this guide

This user guide describes how to use and manage the Partner Administration (PA) client tool and gives you a general understanding on the relationship between a partner agreement information model and the PA client tool. PA client tool is a component within the Infor Enterprise Collaborator (IEC) product.

Intended audience

This user guide is intended for use by PA tool business consultants, application engineers, and Java developers to help them define collaboration and agreements with business partners, customers, suppliers, banks, and others. This guide can also help them define internal business applications like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. The collaboration and agreements are available for use through IEC.

This guide is not intended to be used as a complete self-study guide on how to learn to use the tool and all its concepts. Readers of this guide are expected to have sufficient background knowledge in related systems and applications.

Knowledge prerequisites

To use this product, you should be knowledgeable and highly experienced in these areas:

  • Infor ION Grid, IEC, and its prerequisites

  • Communication protocols and regular expression (regex) settings

  • Programming concepts, such as functions and input or output parameters, loops, and execution flow control

  • XML concepts such as elements, attributes, namespaces, schemas, XSL, and XPath

  • Java programming for the customer extensions, such as channel development, fine naming, and detections

Related documents

Use this guide as primary reference for the Partner Admin tool. Use the current editions of these additional references to find related information:

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    M3 Core Planning Guide and M3 Core Installation Guide

  • Use these guides to understand the general information on the administration and management of IEC as an application in Grid.

    M3 Core Administration Guide

    Infor Enterprise Collaborator Administration Guide

    Infor ION Grid Administration Guide

  • Use this guide to understand how to create and manage flat files and understand how the flat file definition tool processes flat file messages.

    Infor Enterprise Collaborator Flat File Definition Tool User Guide

  • Use this guide to understand the functions, usage, and management of Infor Business Document Mapper tool.

    Business Document Mapper User Guide