After you create and test a partner and its associated entities in the test environment you can flag it as "Ready to be promoted" on the Update Partner screen. You can later search for all the partners that you marked and export them all at once.

The partner export process creates a file of partners to be exported as well as partners and entities associated with the partners. The following associated entities are exported with the partners:

Accounts
Profiles
Endpoints
Monitors
Workflows

The export file contains partners that are related to the exported partners. A related partner is a partner that is connected to an exported partner thorough a monitor that executes a profile that refers to the related partner. The following figure illustrates the connection between an exported partner and a related partner:

In addition to associated entities and related partners, the export process transparently exports some additional entities that are required by the imported partners to function properly. These entities are:

Applications
Event attributes
Categories
Partner and Account custom attributes
Schedules
Calendars
Event Statuses
Event Types

When importing a partner file, the import process may discover that a conflict exists between an entity in the import file one with the same identity in the target environment. B2B Data Exchange provides you with several choices to deal with conflicts: