Guideline Information

ProductInformation	Lines: 3
Constraint: The content shall relate to a single product
Constraint: There shall not be two instances of a ProductInformation for the same product in the same message.

CharacteristicSet	Lines: 5
Constraint: A CharacteristicSet shall reference a Property for each CharacteristicDefinition in the corresponding PropertyDefinitionSet (in the Dictionary defined in the Information Distribution Agreement or in the appended dictionary), and in the Dictionary defined order.
Constraint: If multiple instances of a Characteristic are reported in a message then all values apply to the product. (EXAMPLE: This may be because the product is generic and has multiple options, or has multiple modes of operation, or is rated differently under different conditions.)

DictionaryReference	Lines: 6 20 62 80
Constraint: The entry referenced by 'DictionaryRefererence ' shall be a: a) CharacteristicDefinition if 'DictionaryRefererence' is an attribute of Property. b) PropertyDefinitionSet if 'DictionaryRefererence ' is an attribute of CharacteristicSet. c) ConditionDefinition if DictionaryReference is an attribute of DependentCondition. d) CharacteristicDefinitioncontianing the value.code.type if DictionaryReference is an attribute of value.codes.
Constraint: The value of the 'DictionaryRefererence' attribute shall consist of a "code part", followed by the "-" character, followed by a "majRev part". a) The "majRev part" shall match the content of the majRev of an entry in either the dictionary identified in the Information Distribution Agreement or the RNDctionaryAdd content in the current instance. b) The " code part" shall match the content of the code of an entry in either the dictionary identified by the in the Information Distribution Agreement or the RNDctionaryAdd content in the current instance.
Constraint: Use of a "DictionaryRefererence " shall constitute assurance that the Property conforms to all semantics of the definition.short and definition.ext of the dictionary entry referenced, in addition to other entry semantics defined elsewhere in this specification.

Members	Lines: 7
Constraint: Any Characteristics that appear shall be in the same relative order as the CharacteristicDefinitions referenced by the 'propDefs' attribute of the corresponding PropertySetDefinition entry.
Constraint: Each value shall match the value of the 'id' attribute of either an Property or CharacteristicSet.
Constraint: No Properties or CharacteristicSets shall be referenced outside of the parent PartInformation.
Constraint: There shall be a reference to a Characteristic for each CharacteristicDefinition in the corresponding PropertySetDefinition entry.

Name	Lines: 8 22 64
Constraint: If specified, the name content shall match the preferred.name of the dictionary entry identified by the DictionaryReference.

DependentCondition	Lines: 11
Constraint: A DependentCondition must exist for each DependentCondition defined in a DependentConditionReferences in a Property.
Constraint: Every DependentConditionReferences shall contain at least one value.

ActualValue	Lines: 12 53
Constraint: Every Property and DependentCondition shall contain at least one value.
Constraint: If any Property or DependentCondition contains a value with a 'type' attribute then that Property or DependentCondition shall not also contain a value Property with no 'type' attribute.
Constraint: If the defining dictionary entry has a Unit, then the value shall be a measurement in the unit so defined.
Constraint: In any Property and DependentCondition there shall be at most one value Property with no 'type' attribute.
Constraint: In any Property and DependentCondition there shall be at most one value with a 'type' attribute of a given value.
Constraint: The content shall conform to the encoding constraints specified by the value.format of the corresponding dictionary entry.

GlobalLanguageCode	Lines: 15 30 41 45 50 56 68 82
Entity Instances
aar	Afar
abk	Abkhazian
ace	Achinese
ach	Acoli
ada	Adangme
afa	Afro-Asiatic (Other)
afh	Afrihili
afr	Afrikaans
aka	Akan
akk	Akkadian
ale	Aleut
alg	Algonquian languages
amh	Amharic
ang	English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
apa	Apache languages
ara	Arabic
arc	Aramaic
arn	Araucanian
arp	Arapaho
art	Artificial (Other)
arw	Arawak
asm	Assamese
ath	Athapascan languages
aus	Australian languages
ava	Avaric
ave	Avestan
awa	Awadhi
aym	Aymara
aze	Azerbaijani
bad	Banda
bai	Bamileke languages
bak	Bashkir
bal	Baluchi
bam	Bambara
ban	Balinese
bas	Basa
bat	Baltic (Other)
bej	Beja
bel	Belarussian
bem	Bemba
ben	Bengali
ber	Berber (Other)
bho	Bhojpuri
bih	Bihari
bik	Bikol
bin	Bini
bis	Bislama
bla	Siksika
bnt	Bantu (Other)
bod	Tibetan
bra	Braj
bre	Breton
btk	Batak (Indonesia)
bua	Buriat
bug	Buginese
bul	Bulgarian
cad	Caddo
cai	Central American Indian (Other)
car	Carib
cat	Catalan
cau	Caucasian (Other)
ceb	Cebuano
cel	Celtic (Other)
ces	Czech
cha	Chamorro
chb	Chibcha
che	Chechen
chg	Chagatai
chk	Chuukese
chm	Mari
chn	Chinook jargon
cho	Choctaw
chp	Chipewyan
chr	Cherokee
chu	Church Slavic
chv	Chuvash
chy	Cheyenne
cmc	Chamic languages
cop	Coptic
cor	Cornish
cos	Corsican
cpe	Creoles and pidgins, English-based (Other)
cpf	Creoles and pidgins, French-based (Other)
cpp	Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
cre	Cree
crp	Creoles and pidgins (Other)
cus	Cushitic (Other)
cym	Welsh
dak	Dakota
dan	Danish
day	Dayak
del	Delaware
den	Slave (Athapascan)
deu	German
dgr	Dogrib
din	Dinka
div	Divehi
doi	Dogri
dra	Dravidian (Other)
dua	Duala
dum	Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
dyu	Dyula
dzo	Dzongkha
efi	Efik
egy	Egyptian (Ancient)
eka	Ekajuk
ell	Greek, Modern (post 1453)
elx	Elamite
eng	English
enm	English, Middle (1100-1500)
epo	Esperanto
est	Estonian
eus	Basque
ewe	Ewe
ewo	Ewondo
fan	Fang
fao	Faroese
fas	Persian
fat	Fanti
fij	Fijian
fin	Finnish
fiu	Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon	Fon
fra	French
frm	French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro	French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
fry	Frisian
ful	Fulah
fur	Friulian
gaa	Ga
gay	Gayo
gba	Gbaya
gem	Germanic (Other)
gez	Geez
gil	Gilbertese
gla	Gaelic (Scots)
gle	Irish
glg	Gallegan
glv	Manx
gmh	German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh	German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
gon	Gondi
gor	Gorontalo
got	Gothic
grb	Grebo
grc	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
grn	Guarani
guj	Gujarati
gwi	Gwich'in
hai	Haida
hau	Hausa
haw	Hawaiian
heb	Hebrew
her	Herero
hil	Hiligaynon
him	Himachali
hin	Hindi
hit	Hittite
hmn	Hmong
hmo	Hiri Motu
hrv	Croatian
hun	Hungarian
hup	Hupa
hye	Armenian
iba	Iban
ibo	Igbo
ijo	Ijo
iku	Inuktitut
ile	Interlingue
ilo	Iloko
ina	Interlingua (International Auxilary Language Association)
inc	Indic (Other)
ind	Indonesian
ine	Indo-European (Other)
ipk	Inupiak
ira	Iranian (Other)
iro	Iroquoian languages
isl	Icelandic
ita	Italian
jaw	Javanese
jpn	Japanese
jpr	Judeo-Persian
jrb	Judeo-Arabic
kaa	Kara-Kalpak
kab	Kabyle
kac	Kachin
kal	Kalaallisut
kam	Kamba
kan	Kannada
kar	Karen
kas	Kashmiri
kat	Georgian
kau	Kanuri
kaw	Kawi
kaz	Kazakh
kha	Khasi
khi	Khoisan (Other)
khm	Khmer
kho	Khotanese
kik	Kikuyu
kin	Kinyarwanda
kir	Kirghiz
kmb	Kimbundu
kok	Konkani
kom	Komi
kon	Kongo
kor	Korean
kos	Kosraean
kpe	Kpelle
kro	Kru
kru	Kurukh
kua	Kuanyama
kum	Kumyk
kur	Kurdish
kut	Kutenai
lad	Ladino
lah	Lahnda
lam	Lamba
lao	Lao
lat	Latin
lav	Latvian
lez	Lezghian
lin	Lingala
lit	Lithuanian
lol	Mongo
loz	Lozi
ltz	Letzeburgesch
lua	Luba-Lulua
lub	Luba-Katanga
lug	Ganda
lui	Luiseno
lun	Lunda
luo	Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
lus	Lushai
mad	Madurese
mag	Magahi
mah	Marshall
mai	Maithili
mak	Makasar
mal	Malayalam
man	Mandingo
map	Austronesian (Other)
mar	Marathi
mas	Masai
mdr	Mandar
men	Mende
mga	Irish, Middle (900-1200)
mic	Micmac
min	Minangkabau
mis	Miscellaneous languages
mkd	Macedonian
mkh	Mon-Khmer (Other)
mlg	Malagasy
mlt	Maltese
mni	Manipuri
mno	Manobo languages
moh	Mohawk
mol	Moldavian
mon	Mongolian
mos	Mossi
mri	Maori
msa	Malay
mul	Multiple languages
mun	Munda languages
mus	Creek
mwr	Marwari
mya	Burmese
myn	Mayan languages
nah	Nahuatl
nai	North American Indian (Other)
nau	Nauru
nav	Navajo
nbl	Ndebele, South
nde	Ndebele, North
ndo	Ndonga
nep	Nepali
new	Newari
nia	Nias
nic	Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
niu	Niuean
nld	Dutch
non	Norse, Old
nor	Norwegian
nso	Sohto, Northern
nub	Nubian languages
nya	Nyanja
nym	Nyamwezi
nyn	Nyankole
nyo	Nyoro
nzi	Nzima
oci	Occitan (post 1500)
oji	Ojibwa
ori	Oriya
orm	Oromo
osa	Osage
oss	Ossetic
ota	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
oto	Otomian languages
paa	Papuan (Other)
pag	Pangasinan
pal	Pahlavi
pam	Pampanga
pan	Panjabi
pap	Papiamento
pau	Palauan
peo	Persian, Old (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
phi	Philippine (Other)
phn	Phoenician
pli	Pali
pol	Polish
pon	Pohnpeian
por	Portuguese
pra	Prakrit languages
pro	Provençal, Old (to 1500)
pus	Pushto
qaa-qtz	Reserved for local use
que	Quechua
raj	Rajasthani
rap	Rapanui
rar	Rarotongan
roa	Romance (Other)
roh	Raeto-Romance
rom	Romany
ron	Romanian
run	Rundi
rus	Russian
sad	Sandawe
sag	Sango
sah	Yakut
sai	South American Indian (Other)
sal	Salishan languages
sam	Samaritan Aramaic
san	Sanskrit
sas	Sasak
sat	Santali
sco	Scots
sel	Selkup
sem	Semitic (Other)
sga	Irish, Old (to 900)
shn	Shan
sid	Sidamo
sin	Sinhalese
sio	Siouan languages
sit	Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sla	Slavic (Other)
slk	Slovak
slv	Slovenian
smi	Sami languages
smo	Samoan
sna	Shona
snd	Sindhi
snk	Soninke
sog	Sogdian
som	Somali
son	Songhai
sot	Sotho, Southern
spa	Spanish
sqi	Albanian
srd	Sardinian
srp	Serbian
srr	Serer
ssa	Nilo-Saharan (Other)
ssw	Swati
suk	Sukuma
sun	Sundanese
sus	Susu
sux	Sumerian
swa	Swahili
swe	Swedish
syr	Syriac
tah	Tahitian
tai	Tai (Other)
tam	Tamil
tat	Tatar
tel	Telugu
tem	Timne
ter	Tereno
tet	Tetum
tgk	Tajik
tgl	Tagalog
tha	Thai
tig	Tigre
tir	Tigrinya
tiv	Tiv
tkl	Tokelau
tli	Tlingit
tmh	Tamashek
tog	Tonga (Nyasa)
ton	Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tpi	Tok Pisin
tsi	Tsimshian
tsn	Tswana
tso	Tsonga
tuk	Turkmen
tum	Tumbuka
tur	Turkish
tut	Altaic (Other)
tvl	Tuvalu
twi	Twi
tyv	Tuvinian
uga	Ugaritic
uig	Uighur
ukr	Ukrainian
umb	Umbundu
und	Undetermined
urd	Urdu
uzb	Uzbek
vai	Vai
ven	Venda
vie	Vietnamese
vol	Volapük
vot	Votic
wak	Wakashan languages
wal	Walamo
war	Waray
was	Washo
wen	Sorbian languages
wol	Wolof
xho	Xhosa
yao	Yao
yap	Yapese
yid	Yiddish
yor	Yoruba
ypk	Yupik languages
zap	Zapotec
zen	Zenaga
zha	Zhuang
zho	Chinese
znd	Zande
zul	Zulu
zun	Zuni

Type	Lines: 19 60
Constraint: If absent, the content of the current value may be interpreted as any value within the domain of values that conforms to the semantics of the corresponding dictionary entry.
Constraint: If present, the value of the type object shall match exactly the content of the preferred.name Property of a ValueType entry in the Dictionary defined in the Information Distribution Agreement for the current instance, and the semantics of that ValueType entry shall apply to the content of the current value.
Constraint: None of the attributes 'AbsoluteNegativeTolerance', 'PercentageNegativeTolerance', 'AbsolutePositiveTolerance', 'PercentagePositiveTolerance' shall be specified if the value of the type is not "nom".

GlobalActionCode	Lines: 21 25 35 63
Constraint: The only allowable values for this code are (Add, Modify, Delete). A GlobalActionCode is mandatory for ProductInformation, DependendConditions, and ProductInformationObjects. It is also mandatory for all Properties except for the Property that is used as the unique product identifier (e.g., ProductNumber or GTIN) to access the Product to revise, add , or delete other product properties.
Entity Instances
Add	Add the business information to an information system.
Change Request Accepted
Delete	Delete the business information from an information system.
Request Accepted with Change
Revise	Revise the business information from an information system.

ContentTypeReference	Lines: 28
Constraint: The identifier shall match the preferred.name of a ContentType entry in the dictionary specified in the Information Distribution Agreement or an entry in the RNDictionaryAdd of the containing instance.

FileFormatReference	Lines: 33
Constraint: The identifier shall match the preferred.name of a FileFormat entry in the dictionary specified in the Information Distribution Agreement or an entry in the RNDictionaryAdd of the containing instance.

href	Lines: 36
Constraint: If the value of href is null (i.e., "") then Location shall specify the URL of the location where the ProductInformationObject is stored.

ProprietaryObjectIdentifier	Lines: 42
Constraint: This identifier shall match the identifier used for the ProductInformationObject in the Information Distribution Agreement.

Property	Lines: 52
Constraint: If any Properties are defined, one of them has to define a value for ProductNumber or GTIN as defined in the RNTD. This uniqely identifying property has a GlobalActionCode of Add when the product is first defined, has one one of Delete when the product is being deleted, and has NO GlobalActionCode when other properties are being added, modified, or deleted after the product is initially defined.
Constraint: If two Properties have the same DictionaryReference, then both values shall apply to the parent ProductInformation. This would happen, for example, when a device has multiple modes of operation.

GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode	Lines: 90 105
Entity Instances
Account Supplier	Any trading partner that buys or sells products/services from customers and/or vendors.
Account User	Any trading partner that requires an account to buy or sell products/services.
Anonymous Buyer	A requestor of information that chooses to remain anonymous.
Appointment Provider	The stakeholder(s) in the shipment delivery activity.
AuthorizedServiceProvider	The Service Provider authorized by an OEM to perform service on a unit.
Authorizer	The partner role that provides product authorization, from a product owner or manufacturer, for a reselling organization to resell a product.
Buyer	An employee or organization that buys products for a partner type in the supply chain.
Catalog Distributor	The partner role that distributes catalog information to catalog producers and buyers.
Catalog Producer	The partner role that produces catalog information for a partner type in the supply chain.
Change Requester	A party who has an interest in requesting a review of a possible change to the component. The requester may be any party including customers and suppliers.
Change Review Forum	A party who has responsibility for the review of Engineering Change Requests and the drafting and review of Engineering Change Orders. The Change Review Forum is assumed to be at the company that has responsibility for the engineering aspects of the component affected by the change.
Claim Requester	The owner of the shipments who is responsible for the intact delivery.
Consignee	The receiver of the shipment.
Credit Provider	This partner role is responsible for providing credit information about potential customers.
Credit Reference Requester	This partner role is responsible for requesting credit information about potential customers.
Customer	This partner role creates a demand for a product or service.
Customer Manager	This partner role manages the relationship with the business customers.
Decision Stakeholder	The party (such as suppliers, customers and others) who is responsible for the review and approval of the Engineering Change Approval Request. The stakeholders may be from multiple organizations.
Delivery Appointment Provider	A party that receives a request for a change to a previously scheduled delivery appointment.
Delivery Appointment Requester	A party that requests a change to a previously scheduled delivery appointment.
Demand Creator	The partner role that identifies the opportunity, submits design registration, provides engineering support to advance the opportunity towards design win, and generates revenue by satisfying customer demand for a product.
Design Engineering Information Receiver	This partner role uses technical information for updating enterprise databases (such as electronic catalog systems), design or test engineering, and manufacturing.
Design Engineering Information Sender	This partner role distributes the design engineering information of the agreed types in the agreed amounts at the agreed times.
Failure Report Administrator	An employee or organizational entity that receives and processes PIP Failure Notifications.
Financing Processor	The organization that processes the request for financing.
Forecast Owner	The party that creates a sales or order forecast and is ultimately responsible for it.
Forecast Recipient	The party that receives a sales or order forecast.
Forecast Reply Recipient	The party that receives a forecast reply. The Recipient can be the original forecast owner or other forecast partner (Please refer to the GlobalPartnerClassificationCode).
Implementation Plan Creator	The partner role that creates, maintains and manages an implementation plan associated with an Engineering Change Order.
Initiator	The party that starts the data exchange.
Integrator	The organization responsible for the production of the product. Change requests are communicated back to the Qualification Owner.
In-transit Information User	The party who receives shipment status information.
Inventory Information Provider	An organization that owns or holds inventory and provides information about this inventory to partners in the supply chain. This may be a distributor, contract manufacturer, supplier or OEM reporting inventory that they hold and/or own.
Inventory Information User	An employee or organizatrion that uses information about inventory.
Invoice Provider	The organization that generates the invoice.
Invoice Receiver	The organization being invoiced.
Invoice Reject Provider	The organization that rejects an invoice.
Invoice Reject Receiver	The organization being issued an Invoice Reject Notification.
Marketing Activity Information User	The party who uses information about Marketing Activities. This party might include distributors, and retail operations.
Marketing Activity Initiator	The partner role that distributes information about marketing activities being sponsored by the organization.
Payee	The party receiving a payment.
Payer	The party issuing a payment.
PIP Failure Notifier	An organizational process that automatically notifies the appropriate Failure Report Administrator of a PIP process failure.
Product Distributor	The party authorized by a Product Supplier to purchase goods and services from the Product Supplier and resell to customers.
Product Information Distributor	The partner role that distributes new product information to product information users and buyers.
Product Information Subscriber	The business partner that subscribes to product information from other business partners.
Product Information User	The partner role that uses product information to create or update enterprise systems and online promotion systems such as electronic catalog systems.
Product Provider	The partner role that creates a differentiated product, owns the registration process and creates a list of eligible products for use in design registration.
Product Supplier	This partner role supplies product to customers in the supply chain.
Qualification Owner	The organization responsible for the qualification of manufacturers and suppliers of parts for the product. The Qualification Owner defines and maintains the AML for the product.
Receiver	The intended recipient of products or business information. The Receiver may verify receipt if prescribed.
Responder	The party that replies to the initiators message.
Return Provider	The party responsible for authorizing and/or processing the return.
Return Receiver	A third-party or warehousing operation responsible for receiving returns, inspecting the package contents and comparing to the issued RMA to assure the contents are what was authorized on the RMA.
Return Requester	Any party wishing to return a product. This role could be played by a large end-user such as the Government Services Administration (GSA), a distributor, or a reseller.
Sales Facilitator	This partner role facilitates the sale of product between partners in the supply chain.
Sales Lead Originator	The party assigning a sales lead to another party.
Sales Lead Processor	The party who receives the sales lead. This party is responsible for accepting or rejecting the lead, and if accepted, reports the status of the lead.
Sales Marketing Claim Processor	The partner role that processes the claim and/or remits compensation to the Sales Marketing Claimant.
Sales Marketing Claimant	The partner role that requests reimbursement from a Sales Marketing Claim Processor.
Sales Marketing Program Reimbursement Recipient	The partner role that receives status on a previously submitted sales marketing claim, or who receives reimbursement without submitting a claim.
Sales Marketing Program Reimburser	The partner role that is currently processing a sales marketing claim, (or providing a payment without a claim submitted) and who provides information on the status of the claim processing.
Seller	An organization that sells products to partners in the supply chain.
Shipment Information User	The party who receives shipment status information.
Shipment Requester	The party requesting transportation services.
ShipmentController	The party who is authorized to make decisions regarding a shipment while in-transit.
Shipper	The party who relinquishes (assigns) a shipment to a transport service provider.
Solution Provider	The party that may architect, configure, engineer, sell, or determine the fulfillment of the configured solution to partners in the supply chain.
Solution Requester	This party that creates a demand for a product or service, or has contracted with a Solution Provider for the manufacture or fulfillment of a product(s).
Specification Provider	The partner role that creates or passes on manufacturing specifications. This may be a Solution Provider, an OEM who is sub-contracting manufacturing tasks like fabrication or assembly, or another party.
Specification User	The partner role that uses a manufacturing specification. This might be a sub-contract assembler or fabricator.
Stakeholder	The party that is required to implement an Engineering Change Order. The Stakeholder may include all levels of suppliers, customers or other parties. The Stakeholder may represent multiple organizations. The Stakeholder may draft and/or be responsible for completing tasks in an implementation plan.
Status Requester	The functional partner role, that could be a Product Provider, that creates a differentiated product, owns the registration process and creates a list of eligible products, or who is responsible for identifying the opportunity (that is, it could be a Demand Creator).
Status Responder	The organizational partner role, that could be a Product Provider, that creates a differentiated product, owns the registration process and creates a list of eligible products, or who is responsible for identifying the opportunity (that is, it could be a Demand Creator).
Supplier	This partner role supplies product to customers in the supply chain.
Tender Information User	The stakeholder(s) in the tendering activity.
Transport Service Provider	The party that provides transportation services for a Shipment Requester.
WarrantyProvider	The provider who honors the warranty terms and reimburses the Authorized Service Provider for a service event performed under the terms of the warranty.

BusinessDescription	Lines: 92 107
Constraint: At least one business identifier must be provided: "businessName", "GlobalBusinessIdentifier" or at least one entity in "PartnerBusinessIdentification".

GlobalSupplyChainCode	Lines: 94 109
Entity Instances
Electronic Components	The electronic components supply chain.
Information Technology	The information technology supply chain.
Semiconductor Manufacturing	The semiconductor manufacturing supply chain.

GlobalPartnerClassificationCode	Lines: 95 110
Entity Instances
Broker	Representative of a third party.
Carrier	Product carrier for transporting goods in supply chain.
Contract Manufacturer	The party responsible for the services rendered.
Customs Broker	Product customs broker in supply chain.
Distribution Center	Product distributor in supply chain.
Distributor	Product distributor in supply chain.
End User	Product end user in supply chain.
End User Government	End user government.
Financier	Financial service provider in supply chain
Freight Forwarder	Product freight forwarder for transporting goods in supply chain.
Manufacturer	Product manufacturer in supply chain.
Original Equipment Manufacturer	Product manufacturer of original equipment in the supply chain.
Quality Data Provider	The party responsible for sending the Repair Quality Data. The Provider, through various means, learns of product or product component defect(s).
Quality Data User	The party who receives the repair and/or test data. The User analyzes the data and incorporates findings into its business model.
Reseller	The party who buys goods from a manufacturer and resells them to customers unchanged.
Retailer	Product retailer in supply chain.
ServiceProvider	A provider of services such as repair, diagnoses, maintainence, installation or removal of a unit.
Shopper	Product shopper in supply chain.
Warehouser	Product warehouser in supply chain.

GlobalDocumentFunctionCode	Lines: 96
Constraint: Only GlobalDocumentFunctionCode equal to Request is allowed.
Entity Instances
Request	The business document is a request for a business action to be performed by a partner.
Response	The business document is a response to a requesting partner.

Business Properties ( 10 )
Name	Definition
agreementIdentifier	A mutually agreed identifier assigned to the Information Distribution Agreement under which this information distribution is taking place.
contactName	Name of the contact person(s) within the organization.
effectiveDate	The date information or an activity becomes effective.
facsimileNumber	The numerical schema designed to achieve contact via facsimile.
fromRole	The role initiating a business document exchange.
modificationDate	The last time a change was made, expressed in ISO 8601 format (YYYYMMDD).
telephoneNumber	The numerical schema designed to achieve contact via telephone.
thisDocumentGenerationDateTime	The date-time stamp indicating when this document was generated.
thisDocumentIdentifier	The information that identifies the business document being sent. This identifier is used to represent the specific business document associated with the defined business process.
toRole	The role receiving the document in a business document exchange.

Business Data Entities ( 32 )
Name	Definition
ActualValue	The value associated with the containing Property or DependentCondition.
BusinessDescription	The collection of business properties that describe a business identity and location.
CharacteristicDefinition	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
CharacteristicSet	A set of Propertys and/or other CharacteristicsSets related to a product.
class	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
ContactInformation	The collection of business properties that provide communication and address information for contacting a person, organization or business.
ContentType	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
ContentTypeReference	A unique identifier that defines the category of information provided by this ProductInformationObject.
DependentCondition	An operational or testing condition necessary to produce the value for a given property.
Description	Information that characterizes or otherwise identifies this ProductInformationObject.
DistributionData	A container for ProductInformation and/or RNDictionaryAdd.
DistributionDocument	The collection of DistributionData and/or messageReason.FreeFormText. The payload of the message.
FileFormat	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
FileFormatReference	A unique identifier that defines the type data encoding for this ProductInformationObject.
MessageReason	Unformatted text providing an overview of why the message was sent, such as "this product is due to be released next week" or "response speed has increased due to the introduction of a new process rule."
Name	The name of a Characteristic, or CharacteristicSet related to a product.
ObjectIdentifier	Collection of properties identifying a ProductInformationObject.
PartnerDescription	The collection of business properties that describe a business partners' identity and their function in a supply chain.
PartnerRoleDescription	The collection of business properties that describe a business partners' role in a partner interface process.
Position	Number used to indicate the position of an information collection within the list of information in the Information Distribution Agreement.
ProductInformation	The collection of information related to a product.
ProductInformationObject	Meta data describing a logical representation of a set of arbitrary data (whose semantics are defined in a Dictionary entry) related to a product.
Property	The association of a product information characteristic name with a value.
PropertyDefinitionSet	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
ProprietaryObjectIdentifier	The identifier for a ProductInformationObject unique in the namespace of the ProductInformationDistributor.
RNDictionaryAdd	A container for dictionary information referenced by the response but not contained in the standard Dictionary.
Space	XML function for preserving space in test or ignoriing it.
Supplier	The DUNS of the creator of this ProductInformationObject.
TermDefinition	All semantics are specified in the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary.
Type	A qualifier describing the kind of measurement a value represents.
value.codes	One or more enumerated values to be added to an existing value code list.
Version	An arbitrary identifier indicating a content revision level.

Fundamental Business Data Entities ( 29 )
Name	Definition	Type	Min	Max	Representation
AbsoluteNegativeTolerance	A negative tolerance expressed as a non-negative real number to be subtracted from the current value.	Real	1	15	9(15)
AbsolutePositiveTolerance	A positive tolerance expressed as a non-negative real number to be added to the current value.	Real	1	15	9(15)
CommunicationsNumber	The electro-technical communication number, e.g., telephone number, facsimile number, pager number.	String	1	30	X(30)
ConditionDefinition	The dictionary entry that defines the semantics of a dependent condition; that is, it defines the semantics of an operational, environmental, or state-related factor or variable on which the measurement or interpretation of the value of a characteristic depends.	String	1
DateStamp	Specifies a specific date. Date stamp based on the ISO 8601 specification. The "Z" following the day identifier (DD) is used to indicate Coordinated Universal Time. Informal format: YYYYMMDDZ	Date	9	9	9(8)X
DateTimeStamp	Specifies an instance in time. Based on the ISO 8601 specification where "YYYY" represents the year, "MM" the month and "DD" the day. The letter "T" is the date/time separator and "hh", "mm", "ss.sss" represent hour, minute and second respectively. This representation is immediately followed by a "Z" to indicate Coordinated Universal Time. Informal format: YYYYMMDDThhmmss	DateTime	13	20	9(8)X9(6)V9(3)X
DependentConditionReferences	The IDs of all DependentCondition that constrain the meaning of this Property value.	String	1
dic.value	One or more new Value Codes that are to be added to an existing value code list defined in a CharacteristicDefinition that already exists in the Dictionary.	String	1
DictionaryReference	A reference to a dictionary entry.	String	1	32	X(32)
EmailAddress	Electronic mail address.	String	1
FileSize	The size of an object.	Integer	1	12	9(12)
FreeFormText	Unformatted text.	String	1
GlobalActionCode	Code identifying the business action that must be performed on or with the data.	String	1
GlobalBusinessIdentifier	A unique business identifier. The DUNS number is specified by RosettaNet.	Integer	9	9	9(9)
GlobalDocumentFunctionCode	Code identifying the function of a document as either a request or a response.	String	1
GlobalLanguageCode	Language code as specified in ISO 639-1988.	String	3	3	X(3)
GlobalPartnerClassificationCode	Code identifying a partner's function in the supply chain.	String	1
GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode	Code identifying a party's role in the supply chain.	String	1
GlobalSupplyChainCode	Code identifying the supply chain for the partner's function.	String	1
href	A reference to the Content-Id attribute of a MIME attachment specified as "cid:MIME_content-id_of_attachment" in accordance with RFC 2392 (http://rfc.fh-koeln.de/rfc/html/rfc2392..html).	ID	1	128	9(128)
Legal	A URL (Uniform Resource Locator defined in accordance with RFC 2396 http://www.w3.org/Addressing) that defines terms, conditions, disclaimers, warnings, limitations, or other information related to the use of ProductInformationObject.	ID	1	512	9(512)
Location	The URL (Uniform Resource Locator defined in accordance with RFC 2396 http://www.w3.org/Addressing) for this ProductInformationObject, a request to which shall return only the ProductInformationObject.	ID	1	512	9(512)
Members	The ordered set of references to the Propertys and/or CharacteristicSets in the current instance that are members of the current CharacteristicSet.	NMTOKENS	1	4096	X(4096)
ObjectName	The Distributor name for the containing ProductInformationObject.	String	1
PercentageNegativeTolerance	A negative tolerance expressed as a non-negative percent of the current value.	Integer	1	15	9(15)
PercentagePositiveTolerance	A positive tolerance expressed as a non-negative percent of the current value.	Integer	1	15	9(15)
ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier	Unique identifier, i.e. a numeric value or alphanumeric value, for a business document.	String	1
ProprietaryReferenceIdentifier	A unique reference identifier for goods, services or business documents.	String	1	255
Reference	A URL (Uniform Resource Locator defined in accordance with RFC 2396 http://www.w3.org/Addressing) related to this ProductInformationObject.	ID	1	512	9(512)

Quantitative Fundamental Business Data Entities ( 0 )
Name	Definition	Type	Min	Max	Representation