BizTalk Server : Fetching UNB and UNG Segment Values From Interchange Envelope and Mapping

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Introduction

To accept/process an EDIFACT message in BizTalk, EDI Receive Pipeline is used and in it the actual data (message -- UNH to UNT) is extracted after detaching envelope part (header and trailer) and added to message context. Only few UNB and UNG segments are promoted, whereas UNB_Segment and UNG_Segment are written, rest properties are not promoted due to performance reason.
This article intends to show how to fetch the individual UNB and UNG segment values using helper class and mapping those to the destination structure.


Scenario

For this walkthrough have considered to use EDIFACT INVOIC  which are received and data from it has to be mapped to the destination structure, also Interchange Control and Functional Group Header values. Destination structure can be XML, Flat file or schema generated from database. For this post, destination structure is  XML Canonical Invoice.


Input

EDIFACT  messages are wrapped with envelope, at header it has UNB segment (Interchange control header - Mandatory), UNG (Functional group - Conditional) and UNH (Transaction Set) and at the trailer it has UNZ, UNE and UNT. Enveloping segments work in pairs. UNB-UNZ represents an interchange. UNG-UNE is a functional group inside of the interchange and UNH-UNT is a transaction inside the group.

Many times there is required to pass or store the values from UNB (Interchange Control Header) and UNG (Functional group) segments. But this is not part of the data and not all properties from Envelope are promoted or written in the context of the message. Segments have data elements which are separated by element separator, also sub data elements which are separated by subelement separator.

In the input sample shown below "+" is the element separator, ":" is the subelement separator and "'" is the segment separator.


edifact file



How To Do



Step 1: Helper class which will split the segment and return individual value




Make this independent project so that it can be used wherever required without any dependency.


Step 2: Create BizTalk Project



  • Add EDIFACT INVOIC schema (EDI schema is shipped in as a self-extracting executable and when extracted, schemas can be found at drive:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalkServer2010\XSD_Schema\EDI).

Edifact Invoic

  • Add/Create Output schema CanInvoice as shown below.
Cannonical Invoic

Step 3: Context Schema which will hold the UNB,UNG,ElementSeparator and SubelementSeparator



  • Add a schema to project (InterchangeContext).
  • Add four elements of type string 
    • UNBSegment
    • UNGSegment
    • ElementSeparator
    • SubElementSeparator
  • Make all four elements as Distinguished field.


mark distinguished feild


Step 4: Add references

  • EDIFACTSegmentValueFetcher.dll (Helper class) : This will help in using the method to split the segment and return individual values.



dll file location

  • Microsoft.BizTalk.Edi.BaseArtifacts.dll  : This will help in accessing the EDIContext properties in Orchestration.
edi.baseartifact dll

Note: EDIFACTSegmentValueFetcher is created as an independent project so that it can be used with other projects wherever required.


Step 5 : Create Orchestration

Download Sample


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  1. Hi Maheshkumar,

    THe links to the download samples are not valid anymore. Could you please provide EDIFACTSegmentValueFetcher.dll?

    Thank you!

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