Hi NG,

I thought it is a simple thing to create a message within biztalk and
send it through a sendport, but I was wrong.

I have a simple xsd and create a Message from this xsd.
All 4 fields are distinguished, because I want to set them manually.

Now I use a "Create Message" Shape to instanciate (so I thought) the
message. Within this shape, I want to assign the (constant) values to
the fields of my message. Doing this, BizTalk tells me, that I try to
use a message, that isn't initialized.

So I used a dirty workaround. I simply mapped a field of an existing
message to all the fields in my new message and put a Transform-Shape in
the Create Message-Shape, just preliminary to my Assign-Shape.
And THIS worked. It seems, that the transform shape is doing something
with the message, that the assign shape doesn't.

So, how can I create a new message, without using this workaround?

Thanks in advance,
Frank

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It's me again,

I found out, that I can instanciate a new message from an existing on e
in my assign shape like:

MyNewMessage = ExistingMessage;

if they have the same messagetype. But what do I do, if I have no
existing message yet?

Thanks in advance,
Frank

Frank Schumacher wrote:

> Hi NG,
>
> I thought it is a simple thing to create a message within biztalk and
> send it through a sendport, but I was wrong.
>
> I have a simple xsd and create a Message from this xsd.
> All 4 fields are distinguished, because I want to set them manually.
>
> Now I use a "Create Message" Shape to instanciate (so I thought) the
> message. Within this shape, I want to assign the (constant) values to
> the fields of my message. Doing this, BizTalk tells me, that I try to
> use a message, that isn't initialized.
>
> So I used a dirty workaround. I simply mapped a field of an existing
> message to all the fields in my new message and put a Transform-Shape in
> the Create Message-Shape, just preliminary to my Assign-Shape.
> And THIS worked. It seems, that the transform shape is doing something
> with the message, that the assign shape doesn't.
>
> So, how can I create a new message, without using this workaround?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Frank

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You should be able to assign an XMLDocument to a message. Try this:
- add a variable of the type XmlDocument to your orchestration
- in message assignment, initialize the XmlDocument : document.LoadXml("<my
xml here/>") or document.Load("my file path");
- construct your message from the xml document: myMessage = document;

You can also call a .net class that returns a xml message: myMessage =
MyClass.MyStaticMethodThatReturnsXmlDocument();

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Thanks Iuliu,

although I don't understand why BizTalk can't create the file itself. I
will try your solution soon.

Ciao,
Frank

Iuliu Rus wrote:
> You should be able to assign an XMLDocument to a message. Try this:
> - add a variable of the type XmlDocument to your orchestration
> - in message assignment, initialize the XmlDocument : document.LoadXml("<m
y
> xml here/>") or document.Load("my file path");
> - construct your message from the xml document: myMessage = document;
>
> You can also call a .net class that returns a xml message: myMessage =
> MyClass.MyStaticMethodThatReturnsXmlDocument();
>

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