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Can BizTalk Server translate a comma-separated file to a BizTalk Framework message?

Apr 6th, 2005 21:23
Balaji Ramachandran, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/biztalk/biztalk2000/deploy/btfaq.mspx

BizTalk Server can translate most flat files (comma separated or 
positional) to a BizTalk Framework message.
These are the requirements to implement the handling of these types of 
message in BizTalk Server:
• Your inbound agreement must have an envelope type of flat file. The 
flat file envelope tells BizTalk Server that it must use the flat file 
parser to translate the file to XML. The flat file parser also needs to 
know how to translate the file to XML. In addition, the envelope must 
have a reference to a schema that will instruct the flat file parser on 
how to pull the data from the submission.
• Your outbound 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 which 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 outbound 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 let BizTalk Server know 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.