# SubmitMulti with parties on different participant nodes

**URL:** <https://forum.canton.network/t/submitmulti-with-parties-on-different-participant-nodes/5923>\
**Category:** App Development\
**Tags:** daml, canton\
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.canton.network/t/submitmulti-with-parties-on-different-participant-nodes/5923 "2023-01-07T12:47:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![kctam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.canton.network/kctam/32/1895_2.png) [@kctam](https://forum.canton.network/u/kctam)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.canton.network/t/submitmulti-with-parties-on-different-participant-nodes/5923/1 "2023-01-07T12:47:56Z")

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Hi Team,

I tried to run a script with `submitMulti [alice,bob]` but alice and bob exist on different participant nodes. I received this error message.

```haskell
Exception in thread "main" com.daml.lf.engine.script.ScriptF$FailedCmd: Command submit failed: All parties must be on the same participant but parties were allocated as follows: List((Alice::1220b82bd4ed68376659781069c100b5152a680c79ee8cabde95bbff179a257f1d6a,com.daml.lf.engine.script.ledgerinteraction.GrpcLedgerClient@6bf0db57), (Bob::1220f356d6e990c2bfeb2a15310871c900603091eb19dbb7cfb98b44c5dfe5d724bf,com.daml.lf.engine.script.ledgerinteraction.GrpcLedgerClient@20ef0aa3))

```

In such a scenario, what is the best practice to use the `submitMulti` in the script?

Many thanks in advance.

kc

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**Author:** ![cocreature](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.canton.network/cocreature/32/36_2.png) [@cocreature](https://forum.canton.network/u/cocreature)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.canton.network/t/submitmulti-with-parties-on-different-participant-nodes/5923/2 "2023-01-07T15:02:01Z")

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Multi-party submissions always require that all `actAs` and `readAs` parties are hosted on the participant you’re submitting on. So if they are on different participants, then you cannot use a multi-party submission (whether through Daml script or directly through the ledger API). Instead follow the standard patterns for gathering authorization like propose/accept.