BizTalk Experts

When you’re sending EDI messages with Biztalk 2006 and you need to modify one of the standard edi message, just modify the schema for your needs. Add new enumerations, change the sequence and rename the elements, but always change the namespace. So you can work with the normal (original) schema and the custom schema at the same time / server.

When you receive a custom EDI message, you have to specify the namespace of the right custom edi schema in the edi properties of the sending party. You can find this setting at the next place: ‘Party as Interchange Sender’ / ‘EDIFACT Interchange Processing Properties’ / ‘Enable custom transaction set definitions’. Here you can set a custom namespace for a type of inbound edi message. For example:

You can find the UNH2.1 till 2.5 in the edi message:

UNB+UNOC:2+112233:ZZZ+445566:ZZZ+080902:0009+123'
UNH+1+IFTSTA:D:99B:UN'
BGM+23+IFTSTA+9'(...etc)