Type records allow you to define special partner-specific configurations such as Mappings, containerizers, communication channels, and entity types/, which can be loaded during job processing for the corresponding partner and used to process documents.

1. For the determination of a partner-specific mapping in the EntityTransformer-Jobstep.
   If the property ByPartnersPreference or BySystemPartnersPreference is selected in the EntityTransformer-Jobstep.
2. For triggering where EntitySelector-Jobstep.
   If the strategy ByTargetTypeSet is selected in the selector. This means that the selector checks whether the adjacent entity type matches a mapping defined in the type records.
3. If no specific channel is selected in the ChannelSender-jobstep, the settings of the partner or template partner or the communication channel optionally assigned to the outgoing type in the type set are used.
4. To determine a partner-specific containerizer
   EntityMessageCreator-Jobstep checks the type set settings and applies them.
5. For the determination of an alternative communication address for send channel¹⁾.
6. For the determination of an alternative EDIFACT UNB address when containerizing with the EntityMessageCreator²⁾.
7. For the determination of a setting for a specific Trading Partner