Hi all,
I have an orchestration that processes a flat file. The flat file schema
breaks the interchange into individual messages. Once all of the parts have
been processed I want another orchestration to start another process.
As the batch process creates many instances of the orchestration to process
each of the messages contained in the interchange I cannot from within that
orchestration determine when the last Item have been processed.
Thanks in advance,

Jim

For interchanges, we create properties on each message for the
InterchangeID and a sequence number for ordering, but we don't have a
TotalNumberOfMessages property or a LastMessage property. There is a way
to accomplish your scenario below, though. You can use a PassThru pipeline
inbound and simply have an orchestration subscribe to any messages from
this receive port. Then in this orchestration, you can programmatically
call a receive pipeline with a FF DASM to process the flat files and break
apart the interchange. This will return a collection of messages from the
interchange, which you can then process individually and synchronously.
From this stateful orchestration instance, you'll know when all are
finished processing and can then kick off other processing.

Here is more information about the new 2006 feature to call pipelines from
orchestration:
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It's very easy to use.

HTH,
Doug Girard [MSFT]

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Thanks Doug

Cheers,

Jim

Possibly an approach would be to take in the document, and within the
orchestration, split the message and then after the loop through the
messages, then do your post processing.

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