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How Validation of an EDI Interchange Is Configured

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If the process to look up an agreement determines the agreement to which an incoming or outgoing interchange resolves to, BizTalk Server uses the agreement properties (not pipeline properties) to determine how validation is performed. If no agreement resolves to an interchange, BizTalk Server uses some fallback agreement properties and some pipeline properties in performing validation.

The following tables indicate how BizTalk Server determines the validations to perform on an EDI interchange. For the pipeline and fallback agreement columns in the table, "Yes" means that configuration is used if an agreement has not been determined.

General Information

Validation Configured by Trading Partner Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Agreement Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Send port associations Yes No Yes No
Certificates Yes No No No
Status reporting No No Yes Yes

Note

Even though the settings are available through the pipeline, Microsoft recommends not setting the properties on the pipeline.

Agreement for outbound interchanges/BizTalk Receive Pipeline

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Business profile information: Contact and Contract Details Yes - -

Validation of X12 Envelope Properties

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Auth/Security Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Sender ID Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
RepSeparator/
ISA11		 Yes Yes No
Duplicate/Validity at ISA Yes No Yes
Duplicate/Validity at GS Yes No Yes
Duplicate/Validity at ST Yes No Yes
NS/TS at Group Level Yes No Yes
Version/Release Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only

Validation of EDIFACT Envelope Properties

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Password Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
SenderID Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
NS/TS at Group level Yes No Yes
Version/Release Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Duplicate/Validity at UNB Yes No Yes
Duplicate/Validity at UNG Yes No Yes
Duplicate/Validity at UNH Yes No Yes
UNA Delimiters No Yes No

General ACK Properties

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
ACK on two way Yes Yes No
Generate functional ACK Yes No Yes
Batch interchange ACK Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Custom ACK control Yes No Yes
Generate interchange ACK Yes No Yes
Batch interchange ACK Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Custom ACK control Yes No Yes
Control reporting Yes No Yes

Validation properties on payload

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
EDI Yes Yes No
Extended Yes Yes No
Trailing separators Yes Yes No
Generate tags for trailing separators Yes Yes No
Masking security/password Yes Yes No
Decimal conversion Yes Yes No
Batching - - -
Preserve interchange Yes Yes No

Note

Even though the settings are available through the pipeline, Microsoft recommends not setting the properties on the pipeline.

Agreement for inbound interchanges/BizTalk Send Pipeline

X12 envelope generation

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
ISA/GS/ST segments Yes No Yes

EDIFACT envelope generation

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
UNA/UNB/UNG/UNH segments Yes No Yes
UNA delimiters Yes No Yes

Expected ACK Settings

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Fn ACK setting Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only

Validation properties on payload

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
EDI Yes Yes No
Extended Yes Yes No
Trailing separators generation Yes Yes No

Batch creation

Validation Configured by Agreement Configured by Pipeline* Configured by Fallback Agreement Settings
Release criteria Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Range Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only
Filters Yes Available at agreement-level only Available at agreement-level only

Note

Even though the settings are available through the pipeline, Microsoft recommends not setting the properties on the pipeline.

See Also

EDI Message Validation