Working with your EDI Messages

What do you want to do?

• Open your EDI Messages
• Export a Message from TradeWeb to your PC, or
  Import a Message from your PC to TradeWeb
• Reply to an EDI Message
• Send a Previously Saved Message
• Re-Send a Previously Sent Message
• Print a Message
• Permanently Save a Message
• Delete a Message
• Create a new EDI Message or Template

With a message open, you can

• Save the message locally
• Print the message
• Delete the message

GXS TradeWeb lets you reply to certain types of incoming messages. For example, you can select an incoming Purchase Order and create a Purchase Order Acknowledgment or Invoice with information from the original Purchase Order already filled in.

First, determine if you can reply to the EDI message.

Step	Action
1	On your Company Trading Center page, click the In Box icon or link.
2	In the Message column, click the name of the message.
3	Is there a Reply To Message With option in the navigation frame? If so, you can create a response to this message. If not, this message does not have a complimentary response message type.

Then, reply to the message.

Step	Action
1	Do one of the following. From your In Box list, click the Select box for the message you want to respond to. While viewing the message, scroll to the bottom of the message and select the type of message you want to return.
2	Click the Reply to Message With action.
3	Does a new page ask what type of response you want to create? If so, select the type of message you want to create in response and click the Reply To Message With action. If not, continue below. A new EDI message opens. Information from the original message is filled for you.

For complete details on creating a new EDI message, see Create EDI Messages.

GXS TradeWeb lets you resubmit messages you have already sent in cases when the message is not received by the intended recipient.

Before you begin, be absolutely sure that the

• Recipient did not receive the original message
• Message status is "Sent"

Tip Messages in your Sent Box are for stored 45 days. To keep a permanent copy of these messages, save the messages to your PC hard drive, or to some other media such as a floppy disk or writable CD.

GXS TradeWeb stores messages in your In and Sent message boxes for 45 days in. To keep a copy of a message, you need to save it to your PC hard drive, or to some other media such as a floppy disk or writable CD.

Step	Action
1	Decide where you want to store your EDI messages. Tip You may want to create one or more subdirectories (or folders) on your hard drive especially for storing EDI messages. Alternatively, you may want to use a designated floppy disk or writable CD to store the messages.
2	Open the message you want to save.
3	Click somewhere in the message text.
4	From your browser File menu, select Save As or Save Frame As.
5	Select the location for stored messages.
6	Type a name for the message and give it an .htm or .html extension.
7	Click the Save button. TradeWeb saves the message to the location you selected with the name you typed. Note, however, that graphics are not saved.

Delete an EDI Message

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Step	Action
1	From your Company Trading Center page, click the icon or link for the message box containing the message you want to delete.
2	In the list of messages, click the Select box(es) next to the message(s) you want to delete.
3	Click the Delete action. A confirmation dialog box appears.
4	To delete the message(s), click the OK button. The message box appears and the message(s) you deleted are gone.