by Integration Expert | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, General, Technical
We just returned from Redmond, and the INTEGRATE 2014 summit, and there are several important alterations to the overall direction of BizTalk and Integration in general in the Microsoft ecosystem. We will take several blog and whitepaper posts over the next weeks and...
by Integration Expert | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Technical
If you have ever had a map which begins to look unmanageable with tons of value mappings or extra functoids to simply manage empty nodes you don’t want in your output then you should consider using an XSLT mapping to clean the document up for you. This involves...
by Karmel Moosavi | Nov 27, 2014 | Blog, Technical
Microsoft will be releasing the 2014 Cumulative Update for BizTalk Server in mid-December 2014. These updates combine all of the patches and hotfixes released for 2014, as well as some additional patch content. It is strongly recommended that everyone running BizTalk...
by Integration Expert | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Technical
By default, BizTalk Server does not validate XML against a Schema. This is because the Validating Schemas function is assumed to be performed in the Receive Pipeline. However, sometimes new messages are created within an Orchestration and those additional data...
by Integration Expert | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Technical
Generally speaking, as part of the integration process, sending a new pipeline from an orchestration is not an appropriate way to handle data transfer. There are many reasons for not doing this and here at Art2link we don’t advise to do it. However, in the case...
by Integration Expert | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog, Technical
EDI messages consist of an envelope and a hierarchical series of structural elements. The envelope contains a set of headers and trailers, each set of which describes and contains a structural element. The hierarchical structure of an EDI message enables transaction...
