Setting Up Your Catalogs for BizTalk Server

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When you set up an agreement with a vendor, the vendor ID is made available to Commerce Server. The vendor ID is the organization name that you specify for the vendor when you create a destination organization for the source server. For more information, see Creating Source and Destination Organizations on the Source Server.

Commerce Server displays the vendor ID in Commerce Server Business Desk. It displays those trading partners (organizations) that support the same document type as your organization, and thus have compatible document routing. You can then use Business Desk to associate the vendor ID and the catalog.

More than one catalog can be associated with a given vendor. You can also specify a vendor at the product level; however, if you do this you must also customize _additem.asp.

If you name a vendor Default, Commerce Server recognizes your own site as the vendor.

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  • When a user orders an item from your Web site, the item must exist in the catalog of the destination organization. If the destination organization does not have the item in its catalog, BizTalk Server will not be able to send the purchase order from your site to the vendor. It will write an error message to the event log instead.

To associate a catalog with a vendor

  1. From Commerce Server Business Desk, in Catalogs, click Catalog Editor.

  2. In the Catalogs screen, select the catalog you want to add the vendor ID to, and then click Open on the toolbar.

  3. In the Catalog Editor - <catalog name> screen, in the Vendor ID box, click the ellipsis button [...] to display a list of vendor identifications. Select the appropriate vendor identification for this catalog.

    Commerce Server updates the list of vendors automatically each time you create another agreement with a vendor using BizTalk Server.

  4. To save your change to the catalog and return to the Catalogs screen, click Save and go back on the toolbar.

See Also

Example: Configuring the Source Server for Exchanging Catalogs

Creating a New Catalog

Sending a Catalog to a Trading Partner


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