EDI Providers form – Help Centre

Use the EDI Providers form (Head Office Manager or Cinema Manager > Maintenance > EDI Providers) to set up imports from EDI (electronic data interchange) vendors, such as Rentrak or movieXchange, that provide film data.

Important! Before you complete the EDI Providers form, go to Head Office Manager or Cinema Manager > Maintenance > System Settings, open the EDIProvider setting, and select your EDI provider in the Configuration Value field.

Option	Allowed Values	Description
EDI Provider Code	RENTRAK CINEDI ALLOCINE MOVIEXCHANGE	The code of the EDI provider.
Web Service URL	Valid URL	The URL of the EDI provider's web service.
Login Name	1–255 characters	The login name used to access the EDI provider's web service.
Password	1–255 characters	The password used to access the EDI provider's web service.
Timeout (sec)	Any number	The number of seconds for which a Vista application will try to access the web service before returning a timeout error.
Update Film Fields	n/a	The film data fields that will be imported from the EDI Provider.

Note: Not all fields in the EDI Providers form are needed for all EDI providers.

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Scheduled task: Download EDI Provider Media