Monday, December 12, 2011

Gotcha: Initial Value property of BizTalk orchestration integer variable

Define a variable in an orchestration and choose type as int32. We can see that value property is blank and we can tab out from property window. But if we specify some default value for Initial Value property , tab out, go back and try to delete it , we get a popup window with error as "Property value is not valid.".
To me , this looks like a bug in editor (unless I miss something here!!!).

Here is quick workaround to be able to assign blank value to an already assigned  integer variable,
Change type from int32(System.Int32) to char and again change it back to int32. Now we can see that, Initial Value property has blank value and we can tab out from the window with no errors.

HTH.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Gotcha: BizTalk Map

Did you ever find that, simply mapping link from source schema node to target schema node in BizTalk map doesnt stick as you intended to the mapping surface, but everything else seems to look fine?

Here is something to check out, see if value property on target schema node is set to some default value.If there is any value set, then we would not be able to map to that node until we clear out that value.

Although this looks like a simple check, it could very well take quite a bit of troubleshooting time if not realized soon enough.

HTH.