Configuring Local Host Settings (X12-Transaction Set Settings)

To process an incoming interchange, BizTalk Server must determine the schema that it needs to use in processing and validating the interchange. This consists of determining the target namespace associated with the schema, and determining the schema to be used. In this page of the party agreement, you enter the properties to be used in determining the target namespace. How BizTalk Server determines the schema is described in Agreement Resolution, Schema Discovery, and Authorization for Received EDI Messages.

Note

This topic applies also to HIPAA-related settings.

Important

No properties are disabled on Party A->Party B one-way agreement tab if you cleared the Local BizTalk processes messages received by the party or supports sending messages from this party check box for Party A. However, all the properties are disabled on the same page in the Party B->Party A tab if you selected the check box while creating Party A.

Prerequisites

You must be logged on as a member of the BizTalk Server Administrators or BizTalk Server B2B Operators group.

Determining the Target Namespace

In the Customize Target namespace grid, you can set the target namespaces to one of the namespaces for the standard schemas shipped with BizTalk Server. In the grid, you associate a value of the Target Namespace element with values of the application sender (GS2) and transaction set identifier code (ST1). When BizTalk receives a message whose GS2 and ST1 data elements match those in a row of the grid, BizTalk will use the corresponding namespace to process the message. The values of the elements that you enter must be unique.

If a message does not have a match with the GS2 and ST1 data elements in any row of the grid, BizTalk Server will process the message using the namespace in the row for which the Default column is checked. That serves as the default target namespace. If no namespace is identified, BizTalk Server will use the default namespace of http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/Edi/EDIFACT/2006.

Note

If you enter a setting for any of the fields in the grid, and then delete that setting, you will have to delete the entire row or the page will fail validation.

Note

For an illustration of using this grid, run through the EDI Interface Developer tutorial, specifically setting up a party to receive an interchange from. For more information, see Step 4: Configure a Party and Business Profile for Your Trading Partner.

To configure local host settings for transaction sets

1. Create an X12 encoding agreement as described in Configuring General Settings (X12). To update an existing agreement, right-click the agreement in the Parties and Business Profiles page, and click Properties.

2. On a one-way agreement tab, under Transaction Set Settings section, click Local Host Settings.

3. Select Convert implied decimal format Nn to base 10 numeric value to convert an EDI number that is specified with the format Nn into a base-10 numeric value in the intermediate XML in BizTalk Server.

   Note

   After this conversion, the intermediate XML may fail length validation. This occurs because the number in the base-10 numeric format includes a decimal, making its length one greater than the number in Nn format. You can resolve this issue by adding a value of 1 to the minimum/maximum length value.

4. As part of the transaction set validation settings, if you set Trailing Separator Policy to Optional or Mandatory, you can select Create empty XML tags for trailing separators to have the interchange sender include empty XML tags for trailing separators.

5. In the Customize Target Namespace section, do the following:

   1. Select the Default check box for the row that contains the default target namespace that you want to define.

   2. In the For ST1 column, select a value for the Transaction set identifier code from the drop-down list.

   3. In the GS2 column, enter an alphanumeric value for the Application sender with a minimum of two characters and a maximum of 15 characters. This is a required field.

   4. In the Target Namespace column, select from the drop-down list or enter the target namespace to be used for an interchange when no match is found between the data elements in any row of the grid and the fields in the interchange.

      Note

      These will be the values that BizTalk Server will compare with the values associated with the interchange it received.

   5. Repeat these steps for any other target namespaces to be used.

   6. To remove a target namespace from the list, select the row and click Delete.

6. Click Apply to accept the changes, or click OK to enter and validate the changes, and then close the dialog box.

See Also

Configuring Transaction Set Settings (X12)