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"Forcing an N3 Loop" by jimdawson on May 5, 2008, 2:33 pm, in category BizTalk Mapping
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I recently answered a question on forcing a loop. The input:
Address1
Address2
Address3
needed to be output in the format:
N3*Address1*Address2
N3*Address3
The looping functoid would not work since the addresses were children of the party, and the party was already looping.
Forcing a loop is often difficult. We've found that a quick way to handle this when.....
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"Extracting from Loops" by jimdawson on September 11, 2007, 4:26 pm, in category BizTalk Mapping
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Given problem
<LineItem>
<ShippingInfo>
<ShipCode>01</ShipCode>
<ShipQuantity>231</ShipQuantity>
</ShippingInfo>
<ShippingInfo>
<ShipCode>02</ShipCode>
<ShipQuantity>44</ShipQuantity>
</Sh.....
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"Mapping Specifications" by Jim on July 3, 2007, 11:07 am, in category General
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We have found so many instances where clients want us to create maps for them but they have no specifications that describe the document formats or the mapping rules. The document at the below URL describes why mapping specifications are important and provides basic descriptions of what those specifications should contain. http://www.sspsi.com/Documents/MappingSpecs.doc
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"BizTalk Mapping -- Flattening Data" by Jim on June 25, 2007, 5:01 pm, in category BizTalk Mapping
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I saw on a newsgroup a question related to this issue. The input had two instances of a record. The data in these two records needed to be output into a single record on the output side. The problem was that the output was looping to match the input. Thus the input:
- <File>
- <HeaderRecord>
- <DataRecord>
<DataItem1>Red</DataItem1>
<DataItem2>RedItem(loop1)</DataI.....
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"Gettng the Last Item from a Loop" by Jim on June 22, 2007, 3:58 pm, in category BizTalk Mapping
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A client wrote:
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I hope I am not bugging you too much. I have a question. In my test file I have root <File> with two child nodes: <HeaderRecord> and <DataRecord> where each <HeaderRecord> could have many <DataRecord>.
My question is next: "How can I get a value from the very last <DataRecord> node only?" I do not care about all other nodes, but I need a very last one. .....
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"date format conversion" by Jim on June 14, 2007, 1:17 pm, in category BizTalk Mapping
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Jim is on a client site this week, and he asked me to send you a note about your question on date conversion in a map.
There are a variety of ways to transform dates. The fundamental way is to use the string functoids to extract the parts of the date you need and to then re-arrange them in the fashion you want. This example transforms the system date as provided by the date functoid (YYYY-MM-DD) into the format required by EDI (YYYYMMDD). The example us.....
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"New Categories" by Jim on June 5, 2007, 11:38 am, in category General
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We've added new categories to help separate topics. If you need a new one, let us know.
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"Map Converters" by Jim on June 5, 2007, 11:16 am, in category BizTalk Mapping
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Ok, this is a rant. A MS partner came to us a couple of days ago having found themselves in deep trouble. They had just run out of time on a project and gotten a two month extension. What happened? MS has a map converter that converts Sterling Gentran maps to BizTalk R2 maps. When I heard that I laughed.
MS is not the only company that claims to have tools that automatically convert maps from one tool to another. They wou.....
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"Introduction" by Jim on March 20, 2007, 2:20 pm, in category General
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Hi everyone. You will find a little bit of everything here, but the focus will be on sharing expertise on the BizTalk mapping engine. We started this blog on March 20, 2007, so please judge the amount of content based on that start date :) Please feel free to email us at any time, at jim@sspsi.com or john@sspsi.com.
We welcome questions or comments on solutions involving any version of BizTalk and/or the Covast EDI Accelerator for BizTalk, Base EDI, EDI,.....
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