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Logic Apps (Standard) Data Mapper: Date and Time Functions (Part 1)

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 31, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Overview Date and Time functions are used to perform a variety of operations over Dates, such as retrieving the current date and time or adding dates, etc. If you come from the BizTalk Server background or are migrating BizTalk Server projects, they are the equivalent...

Logic App Consumption: Send Query Reports from Log Analytics Workspace

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 30, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In this blog post and tutorial, what we pretend to do is to create a Logic App, in this case, a Logic App Consumption, that sends reports through Log Analytics using an Azure Function to retrieve the data dynamically. To do this, first, we need to understand a few...

Logic Apps: How to process CSV files

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 27, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

One of the most ancient and common standards for message representation is using text files (Flat Files) like CSV (Comma Separated Values) or TXT files, many of which are custom-made for their systems. And do not be fooled and think these messages are outdated and...

Flat File Support inside Logic Apps

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 26, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

We live in a REST era where JSON or XML is our text-based format default choice of text-based formats and widespread use by major corporations. However, one of the most ancient and common standards for message representation is using text files (Flat Files) like CSV...

BizTalk Server: What are Flat Files?

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 25, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Transformations are one of the most common components in the integration processes. They act as essential translators in the decoupling between the different systems to connect. We usually associate the transformations of documents with BizTalk Server Maps, but the...

Logic Apps (Standard) Data Mapper: Conversion functions

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 24, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Overview String functions are used to manipulate strings in standard ways, such as conversions to all uppercase or all lowercase, string concatenation, determination of string length, white space trimming, etc. If you come from the BizTalk Server background or are...