Filed under: Biztalk 2004, Biztalk Errors, Covast EDI Accelerator | Tags: Accelerator, BizTalk, Biztalk Server 2004, Covast, document definitions, EDI, Schema
When you like to change the maxlength parameter of an numeric element of an EDI message, you’ll find out that there is a dirty, nasty little bug in Covast. It can take you weeks to find out how this is actually working.
So as an example, we’re going to change and fix (max) length value of the 9308 Seal_Number element located in the EDI ‘IFTMIN D 99B Default UN’ message. First we open Covast Studio and go to the document repository. (more…)
Filed under: Biztalk 2004, Covast EDI Accelerator | Tags: Accelerator, BizTalk, Biztalk Server 2004, Covast, document definitions, EDI, repository
You can have a server with Biztalk Server 2004 installed and Covast EDI Accelerator, but without Microsoft Visual Studio installed. When you want to install a new EDI message in Covast you have to generate the schema with Visual Studio, because this causes a process to run (xml2db.exe). This process installs the document definitions into the repository of Covast.
What if you don’t have Visual Studio installed?
How to install a schema without Visual Studio?
This is what I’m going to explain… (more…)
