1. Babelway
  2. Babelway User Guide
  3. Chapter 4. Manage & Build

4.2.4.23. VAN Gateway In

This gateway allows to retrieve files from specific trading partners on ECGrid VAN. A Trading Partner is the company from whom you are going to receive documents. 

The VAN gateway receives the message based on the Identifier / Qualifier pair as determined in the X12 or Edifact data. They look like this:

X12: ISA*00* *00* *ZZ*SENDERID *ZZ*RECEIVERID *010101*0101*U*00401*000000001*0*T*!

EDIFACT: UNB+UNOA:1+ SENDERID:ZZ+RECEIVERID:ZZ +

For the VAN IN Gateway, your ID Is the Receiver ID. Your Trading Partner ID is the Sender ID.

If you are using an already existing ID (on another VAN), your ID must be migrated to Babelway before you can begin receiving documents. To do so you must:

1-Download and complete this letter of authorization, found here

2-Printout on your company letterhead, scan with completed information

3-Send authorization to  along with your desired migration date

Please note that this migration will cause all traffic under this ID to be routed to the Babelway VAN Gateway In. You must be prepared to process all documents that you currently receive through your old VAN before the migration can be completed successfully.

If you would rather use a new ID and have your partners change what they are using, Babelway let’s you create a new ID on the gateway.

 Your identifiers 

 Your Names / Identifiers / Qualifiers on VANs. All EDI messages specifying these Id/Qual in recipient will be routed to this gateway. Identifier = The X12 or EDIFACT ID for the ISA and UNB segments. Qualifier = The X12 or EDIFACT Qualifier for the ISA and UNB segments (Maximum is 2 characters). The name should be your company/ entity name and will be used by other EDI partners to find you before sending messages. 

Note:

  • In the "General" page for this Gateway In you can see the "Poll now" button. When clicking on this button this will poll all of the messages immediately (and will not wait for the next defined moment).

  • VAN ID can't be used in two different environments. You can only share it in the same environment with more than one channel, then you will have to set routing conditions.

  • If there is a file name provided in the "Message In" or "Message Out" which contain ~ tilde character, All browser based on Chromium will replace the ~ tilde character by the _ underscore character when you try to download the file from the Babelway interface, For more details you can check this link https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479419
  • You can check bunch of info like last success date, last message date …etc. by pressing on Run Info button.

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  • The maximum file size accepted by this gateway is 100 MB.