Party schema

Party type: PartyInstitutional

Allows the communication of party information between business applications with in a given integration. These Parties may play different roles witin an integration from Supplier, Customer, to Carrier and many more.

A business entity that plays some role in the transaction, either actively or by reference (active parties in a purchase might be the CustomerParty or the SupplierParty, while Manufacturer would be referenced Party that plays no active role in the transaction). The Party type carries with it all of the identifying and descriptive information about the party. A specific Party's role name is captured in the corresponding element's name, following the so-called "semantically-named element substitution group" design pattern. The instance is named [rolename]Party, as in SupplierParty, CustomerParty, etc. Each is of type Party, or of some derived type. Need to bring more Party elements into PartyBase, once reg testing can be broken for a little while. mdf

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