biztalk patterns

Parallel Receive
Condition: you wait for all the messages to come into your business process before the processing starts. Example: If you need to process something after receiving quotation (message) from all your manufacturers.

Key steps in your orchestration
* Drop Parallel action with 2 or more Receive shapes in the beginning.

* Activate = True in all the receive shapes

* Initializing Correlation Sets = "somecorrelationset" in all the receive shapes. (You need to define a correlation set with an element unique across all the messages you receive).

Sequential Receive
Condition: Either you receive same type or different type of message one after the other; you need to wait until you receive some kind of control message to say "That's the end", or keep receiving n number of messages.



Key steps in your orchestration
* Set Activate = True in the first Receive Shape, Initializing Correlation Sets = somecorrelationset (You need to define a correlation set with an element unique across all the messages you receive).

* Set Activate = False in the following receive shapes, Following Correlation Sets = somecorrelationset, and

* Put a Loop across Receive shape. Terminate the loop based on your condition either after receiving n number of messages or after receiving the control message.