Biztalk Map

☛ Persistence is when the state of a running Orchestration is stored into SQL.

☛ It is good enough to know various shape and actions cause persistence. More specifically, it occurs: end of a transactional scope, at a send shape, at a start Orchestration shape, during dehydration, if the system shuts down expectedly or unexpectedly, or the business process suspends or ends.

Yes, its possible. It can be done by including the <Any> element in the map.

It is a tool that runs within the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment after you install BizTalk Server. We use the Mapper to create and edit maps.

Yes. Right click the map to debug and select "Debug Map".

Click on the map grid and in properties tab specify the location where custom XSLT is stored against the property "Custom XSLT path".

No it is not possible to use the untyped message in the map

Direct binding has three types: direct to message box, self correlating, and partner ports.

No. As everything which we see in Map grid (links, functoids) are overwritten when external XSLT is used.

There is no limit.

.btm is a BizTalk Server map file.

BizTalk Server Administrator

There is no limit, it depends on the requirement and complexity of the map.

Yes. But to do so custom XSLT is to be provided to the map.

Yes, it can be done, by creating a new schema which will contain fields for capturing values from Orchestration variable and with the help of LoadXml to load the values. This schema can be used along with an other source schema and mapping can be done. The variable also can be passed inside the Assign shop in an expression.

Yes, but you need to create these kind of maps inside Orchestrations only! This type of maps must be created using the Transform shape within an Orchestration. Orchestration Editor creates an envelope schema which includes all nested message schemas. Once created you can use this map on ports as well.