Parties
Learn about parties and how they are related to dialogs
Introduction
In Altinn, a party is either a person registered in the National Population Register, or an organization registered in the Central Coordinating Registry for Entities .
All dialogs are associated with a party. Depending on the context of the dialog, this is either
- the recipient of a message being sent from a public actor
- the person or organization responsible for filing a report to a public actor (e.g., a monthly employer report, “A-meldingen”)
- the person or organization submitting an application to a public actor (e.g., applying for a grant or some permission)
As Dialogporten uses the authorization model in Altinn Authorization, all authenticated users (i.e., persons or systems) must be authorized to represent the party for the service resource the dialog is associated with.
Authorized parties
By utilizing APIs provided by Altinn Access Management, Dialogporten lets authenticated users get a list of all parties they are authorized to represent in any capacity. This list is also referred to as the “actor list” or in Altinn 2 as the “reportee list”.
This list can be used by end-user systems as an actor-selection mechanism, allowing the end user to select the party they want to represent and forming the basis for subsequent requests to Dialogporten to find dialogs.
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