by Stephen W. Thomas | Nov 13, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
In many cases it can be useful to know the exact name of your output file that will be sent from your Orchestration using the File Adapter. This can be difficult if you are using the %MessageId%.xml macro to write the file since this it set after the message is sent...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Nov 7, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
In the past, I have tended to focus on sequential convoys. Now, I decided to take a look at Concurrent Convoys. First off, I was sure in older versions of the documentation they were called Parallel Convoys? Maybe I’m mistaken or maybe the name changed over the...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 28, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
It can sometimes be challenging when mapping schemas in BizTalk 2004. One common problem is when the inbound document has one record and the source creates multiple records based on the data inside your single record. The root problem arises because you have nothing...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 25, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Working with XPath inside Orchestrations is a powerful and simple feature of BizTalk 2004. The help guide does a good job describing the process (under Using XPath in Message Assignment). I have found that the XPath queries can only be done against a Message and the...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 13, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
InfoPath is something I heard a lot about several months ago, but not much since then. Recently, I had to set an InfoPath template to a message in BizTalk 2004. This is something that is rather simple, as long as you know what properties you need to set. To set an...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 7, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Have you seen an error that looks like the one below on your Send Pipelines? There was a failure executing the send pipeline: “Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLTransmit” Source: “XML assembler” Send Port: “some location”...