BizTalk orchestration - Accessing request message from Receive Port

Hi,

I have a orchestration in place and have a reveice port configured for it. I would like to change some parameters received in the request message.

Here are the steps of the orchestration:

1. Receive port (gets the request with input parameter)
   
2. A receive box (activated)
3. A decision box
4. Rule... The rule should evaluate and fork depending on the input parameter..

The issue is that I can only see the result in the Rule's editor and not the request object :-(

How can I access the request message and the input parameters in a Message Assignment or the expression editor of a rule?

Thanks,

~Vikas

 HI,

Did you promote the data elements you need ?

Rob

yeah. Need to do Distinguished promte  which used in your orchestration expressions for get/set operations aginst your message

Nandika

It does sound like you haven't promoted your message properties (either as distinguished field or as a promoted (context) property).

There is loads of info on the web re.the two methods so I won't go into them here, try starting with:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559259.aspx
• http://www.hyperbina.com/tech/blog/?p=21

As a general rule of thumb however, promoted (context) properties are used for message subscription (and require a lot more overhead); if you're not looking to do subscription on your property, go with distinguished.

Kind regards, Nick.