In addition to the typical negotiation information, on occasion the buyer may need to communicate or request additional information such as specialized requirements. The buyer can use the note text box for short communications or use attachments for larger amounts of information. Notes and attachments can be assigned to the negotiation header or the negotiation lines .
To view the notes and attachments:
From the Negotiations Home page, click the negotiation number link under Your Company's Open Invitations to view negotiations to which you have been invited. Alternately, search for an open negotiation by selecting a search criteria, providing a search value and clicking Go.
Click the negotiation number link to display the negotiation summary page.
The negotiation summary page displays all the information on the negotiation broken down into a tab-oriented form so you can easily view the information contained in the different sections of the negotiation. By default, the page displays the negotiation header information.
Click the Lines subtab to see details of the negotiation lines . To see the detail information for each line, click that line's number link. On the Line: page, you see any notes and attachments assigned by the buyer to the line. If this line was AutoCreated from Purchasing and there was both an attachment at the requisition header level as well as attachments at the line level, there will be two attachments for each line. The first attachment is the requisition header attachment. The second attachment is the line attachment .
Once you have viewed all your attachments, click Return to Negotiations to return to the negotiation summary page. From this page you can continue placing a response .