BizTalk 2010 Recipes : EDI Solutions - Subscribing to EDI Promoted Properties

5/16/2011 6:20:25 PM

1. Problem

You are receiving a large number of EDI documents from many different trading partners. You have an orchestration that you want to configure to subscribe to only EDI documents from a specific trading partner.

2. Solution

To filter what values are picked up by the orchestration, take these steps:

Right-click the initial Receive shape of the orchestration, and select Edit Filter Expression (shown in Figure 1 ). This receive shape should be subscribing to an EDI schema type. If it is not, no EDI properties will be promoted.

Figure 1. Editing the filter on the Receive shape
In the filter that opens, select the EDI.ISA06 property from the drop-down menu, and configure it to subscribe to the trading partner ID desired (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. Configuring the filter on the orchestration

3. How it Works

A large number of EDI properties are promoted on a document. Among these are properties that pertain to the envelope. In this case, the orchestration needs to subscribe to the ISA06 property, which indicates the trading partner ID that is sending the document. There are many other fields available, some of which are shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Some additional EDI properties

This solution showed how to configure an orchestration, but a send port can also be configured to subscribe to promoted EDI properties. To do this, open the send port, and click on the Filters tab, as shown in Figure 4.