Scheduling a Biztalk Server Orchestration

Question

Hi,

I need to start an orchestration process based on the timer at regular intervals.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards

Maswood

Answer 1

Hi Maswood,

At a scheduled time publish a message (trigger) which can match the subscription of the orchestration.

Configure services windows for your receive locations, so that during the scheduled time message can published into message box for orchestration (which you can configure the publish message)

Or have a scheduled task configured to post a message to BizTalk through HTTP.

By any means if you publish a trigger message during the scheduled/configured period, this trigger at the scheduled time (or any time for that matter) can invoke/trigger/ follow the subscription for orchestration.

Answer 2

You can use the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter

http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/

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Colin Meade (MCTS BizTalk Server)

Answer 3

Use Job Scheduler or a Web Service

1. Expose a standard web service in BizTalk which will accept parameters to trigger a message.
2. Use Control M jobs or Windows scheduled tasks or SQL etc to trigger this web service with appropriate parameters periodically.
3. Web service will publish a message to message box which can be subscribed to by the relevant solution and which in turn can trigger/instantiate the orchestration.

As above mentioned,

HTTP Post through windows scheduled tasks at the desired intervals.

Schedule a receive location with a service window.

Publish message using a receive location set with a service window

Scheduled Task Adapter

Use the Schedule Task Adapter (http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/), which is package you can deploy & use within BizTalk, re-usable scheduler adapter addressing exactly the scenario discussed. It’s Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), which enables us to use, and modify the source code if needed.

More blogs:

http://connectedenterprise.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-very-useful-biztalk-scheduled-task-adapter/

http://geekswithblogs.net/BizTalkUnleashed/archive/2011/07/11/restful-service-polling-biztalk-receive-location.aspx

http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/biztalk-scheduled-task-adapter-4-0-introduction-and-installation-process/

 

Build a Custom Adapter

Could be difficult - either: Build a web service polling adapter using the LOB adapter SDK, or build a web service polling adapter using the BizTalk Adapter framework. This is not an easy, but it's easier with the LOB SDK than the BizTalk Adapter framework.

 

Singleton Orchestration

Have a singleton orchestration that calls the web service, with x minutes delays in a loop (while-true). A control message can be used to start the orchestration.