| Tatyana Yakushev[MSFT] 2004-05-11, 8:21 pm |
| BizTalk Server 2004 Mapper references schemas instead of including them in the map.
When schema is updated the map is updated as well.
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>Thank you for your answer. I don't have BT 2004 yet, but
>I'll look for that "include" feature in BT Editor when I
>get it.
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>About the maps, you're right that most of the times it
>will require some human intervention. But still, this
>could be made a lot easier and the semantics are not that
>tricky. A link in a map is just something that references
>two items in two schemas. All these things have well-
>defined names, so that when a underlying shema is
>updated, the links in a map could be maintained if they
>still refer to valid elements, and removed (with a
>warning) if otherwise.
>
>I guess this is what happens when you select to update
>the schema in Biztalk Mapper, but I miss a simpler user
>interface to do this. I have to indicate the path and the
>name of the new schema, when 99% of the times it's the
>SAME path and the SAME name, only it's a new version
>(usually with minor changes that don't require any change
>in the links, or just require mapping a new element from
>one side to the other).
>
>If the maps had only references to the schemas, Biztalk
>could (when opening a map) check to see if the references
>had been updated, ask if I want to update the map with
>the new schemas, and do so automatically.
>
>I don't know if this is a good suggestion, what do you
>think?
>
>However, when the schema
>depending on the change made
>review and ensure that the
>do that (certainly in
>features. It is possible
>reuse them in many
>without modifying it and
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