Monday, March 7, 2011

Gotcha: Order of input parameter of BizTalk Map functoid

I often tend to oversee this and realize only after wasting few test cycles.

When a functoid has multiple input parameters and any input link other than last link is deleted and added, new link gets added as the last link instead of in its original position. This would adversely affect end result of functoids for which ordering is important (like Value Mapping, String Concat etc).

For eg. when we delete and add first input of value mapping functoid, then second parameter becomes first which may or may not result a boolean value and boolean expression becomes second parameter. Eventually, we will not get result as expected (if this is not realized soon enough, we may suspect end result of boolean expression and spend more time on tweaking it)

HTH.

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