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Can BizTalk Server translate a BizTalk Framework message to electronic data interchange (EDI) data?

Apr 6th, 2005 21:22
Balaji Ramachandran, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/biztalk/biztalk2000/deploy/btfaq.mspx

BizTalk Server can translate a BizTalk Framework message to EDI data 
(X12 or EDIFACT).
These are the requirements to implement the handling of these types of 
message in BizTalk Server:
• Your inbound agreement must specify an envelope type of custom XML. 
The envelope used in the agreement will indicate to BizTalk Server how 
it should handle this message. The custom XML type of the envelope will 
let it know what serializer to invoke. This, in conjunction with the 
third requirement, will render a BizTalk Framework envelope. (This step 
is necessary only if you wish to deliver the data in a BizTalk 
Framework envelope.)
• Your inbound agreement must specify an Organization Qualifier 
of "BizTalk." To render a BizTalk Framework envelope, BizTalk will use 
the specific "BizTalk" qualifier. This, in conjunction with the custom 
XML envelope, will indicate to BizTalk Server which serializer to 
invoke. (This step is necessary only if you wish to deliver the data in 
a BizTalk Framework envelope.)
Note: There is currently an issue in the BizTalk Management Desk that 
will not allow the user to specify which Organization Qualifier to use. 
You can do this only by using the BizTalk Server Management Object 
Model.
• Your outbound agreement must have an envelope type of EDIFACT. The 
EDIFACT envelope indicates to BizTalk Server that it must use the 
EDIFACT serializer to translate the intermediate XML to EDI data. In 
addition, the envelope must also specify the EDIFACT delimiters, 
control group value, and application codes. BizTalk Server will use 
this information to generate the appropriate EDIFACT envelope.