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Overview

Seminode separates the data you share with partners (public) from the internal identifiers you keep to yourself (private). This lets you distribute exactly what a partner needs to quote — and nothing more — while still keeping your own reference and organizational data attached for matching and analysis. The distinction applies wherever you publish data: posting from Upload Tools, creating listings from reference data, and sending RFQs.

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Public fields

These are the tradeable details partners see on a listing or quote:
  • Material No (manufacturer part number)
  • Manufacturer
  • Quantity
  • Unit / Target Price
  • Lead Time and Date Code (when provided)
Public fields are the common language of the network — enough for a partner to price and respond.

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Private fields

These stay internal and are never included in anything distributed to partners:
  • Internal No (your internal part number)
  • Site Code
  • Program, Region, and Commodity
Private fields let you link a public listing back to the correct internal record, group and route activity, and match against your own cost or reference data — without exposing any of it externally.
Internal No and Site Code are marked private by default. You can mark additional columns private, or make a default-private column public, at the point you publish.

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How to control it

  • In Upload Tools — use the lock toggle on any column header to mark it private before posting. Private columns are cleansed and retained with your data but excluded from what partners receive. See Upload Tools → Private Columns.
  • When creating listings from reference data — choose which fields to keep private in the create flow. Internal identifiers are used to match and link the new listing to your reference records while remaining hidden from partners. See Reference Data.

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Why it matters

Sharing only public fields keeps sensitive commercial and organizational data — internal part numbers, sites, programs, cost bases — inside your company, while still giving partners a clean, standardized listing to quote against.