I was recently working on a AS2/EDI project using BizTalk 2006 R2 and came across
an interesting question:
How do I create 500+ parties? and with the AS2 Properties included (or even
HL7 for that matter)
After a little digging – there is the BizTalk.ExplorerOM that we could drill into
and create the parties through code.
However, there’s a more hands off approach….using Bindings!!!!
(1) Export Bindings from an existing setup including Parties!!! to
an xml file.
(2) Modify the XML file – particularly the Party information.
(3) Import Bindings back into your new environment.
There’s a great blog post by the BizTalk Team on this subject a while back – http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkb2b/archive/2006/10/25/automated-deployment-of-edi-properties-also-useful-for-bulk-import-of-party-properties.aspx