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Recent Integration Community Blog Posts

BizTalk Server Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #18 Orchestration Designer Shortcut Keys

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 23, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks blog post! In my previous blog posts, I discussed some essential tips and tricks for BizTalk Server administrators: And for BizTalk Server Developers: Today we are going to switch and speak about...

JSON Document to JSON Schema Converter Tool

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 20, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In our Integration projects, especially nowadays on Azure Integration Services, we often work with JSON messages. And despite Logic App Designer allowing us to generate a JSON schema based on a JSON payload (or JSON message), there are many situations that we find...

Create a sample JSON document from a JSON Schema Tool

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 19, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Logic Apps (Standard) Data Mapper: Basic Principles of Maps

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 18, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

What are maps? In a general and abstract way, we can say that Data Mapper maps are graphical representations of XSLT 3.0 (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) documents that allow us to perform simple and visual transformations between XML and JSON messages...

Logic Apps (Standard) Data Mapper: What is a Function Chain (video)

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 17, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Function Chain? What is a Function Chain? And how that works inside the Data Mapper? When we use more than one cascading function to perform a transformation rule, we call it a Function Chain, or a chain of functions that are going to be executed in order. This way,...

Data Mapper Tricks and Tips: Workaround to organize your functions (video)

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 13, 2023 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Time to start another series of blog posts about Logic Apps: Data Mapper Tricks and Tips! Where I will address simple tips and tricks, we can apply to our Data Mapper to be more productive, solve a problem, or help bypass some limitations or constraints. For this...