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Help! I know nothing about Biztalk and need advice.
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| So if this question is obvious try not to laugh to hard.
Is it possible to create a generic form for a mobile device, than have the
mobile device send the captured form data, via email to the BizTalk server
having the server take the data and populate a database?
This form will be on a Windows Mobile device so InfoPath can not play a part
in any of this solution. Unless InfoPath can be ported to Windows Mobile
Thank you in advance for any assitance
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| Yoss Dahan 2005-12-16, 7:48 am |
| vidro wrote:
> So if this question is obvious try not to laugh to hard.
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> Is it possible to create a generic form for a mobile device, than have the
> mobile device send the captured form data, via email to the BizTalk server
> having the server take the data and populate a database?
>
> This form will be on a Windows Mobile device so InfoPath can not play a part
> in any of this solution. Unless InfoPath can be ported to Windows Mobile
> Thank you in advance for any assitance
Well - you may want to check some windows mobile groups for a comment on
the form itself,
From the BizTalk side of things -
if you manage to send an email from the mobile device BizTalk can be
configured to pick it up (from a designated mailbox on a pop server)
and write it to a database.
BTW - BizTalk will handle just as well an HTTP post or web service call
if your windows mobile can access the web.
HTH
Yossi Dahan
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| I'm not sure how to word this, what format should the capture data take when
sent to BizTalk?
I'll try to say the same thing with different questions and verbiage.
When BizTalk picks up the email what will it look at before it will
"process" the email?
What is a good book for to learn more about Biztalk?
"Yoss Dahan" wrote:
> vidro wrote:
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> Well - you may want to check some windows mobile groups for a comment on
> the form itself,
>
> From the BizTalk side of things -
> if you manage to send an email from the mobile device BizTalk can be
> configured to pick it up (from a designated mailbox on a pop server)
> and write it to a database.
>
> BTW - BizTalk will handle just as well an HTTP post or web service call
> if your windows mobile can access the web.
>
> HTH
>
> Yossi Dahan
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| Yoss Dahan 2005-12-17, 7:47 am |
| vidro wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> I'm not sure how to word this, what format should the capture data take when
> sent to BizTalk?
> I'll try to say the same thing with different questions and verbiage.
> When BizTalk picks up the email what will it look at before it will
> "process" the email?
> What is a good book for to learn more about Biztalk?
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> "Yoss Dahan" wrote:
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A good book would be BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed.
While it depends a little bit on the version of BizTalk you are using
(hence the POP adapter you're using) the easiest is to have BizTalk take
the attachments of every email arriving at a particular mailbox.
(Ideally each email will have one attachment - it will make your life
simpler to begin with)
From there it is a simple message processing in BizTalk, but I don't
think it's simple enough to explain in the context of this reply.
But generally if this attachment is an Xml you will define it's schema
in BizTalk so it will look at the root node of the xml and the namespace
and identify the message type, from that moment its easy to get BizTalk
to "process" the message.
if the attachment is a flat file you will need a bit more work to get
BizTalk to identify (and possibly xml-ify) the message before it can be
processed.
the important thing to note I think is that BizTalk needs to be aware of
the message schema, so you will have to define this carefully.
Hope this helps
Yossi Dahan
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