Use BizTalk to pickup PDF files and move to another server/folder

[mj]

Hello,
I am using BizTalk 2004 and I would like to use BizTalk to pickup PDF files
from a local folder (when files are copied to that folder) and move those PDF
files to another server/folder. Would I be able to do that with BizTalk for
PDF files or does the file have to be an XML file? If it is doable, are
there examples that I can look at?
Note: I will not need to do any transforming, I just need to move the PDF
files from
one local folder to a folder on a different server. This is something it
will need to do daily.
Thanks in advance for your help in this matter!
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mj

[dgrospelier]

Hi Mj,

You can use BizTalk to route binary files.
In your case, you have to :
- Create a receive port + receive location in order to receive the
PDF file (use a PassThruReceive pipeline)
- Create a send port with :
- PassThruTransmit pipeline
- Filter like "BTS.ReceivePortName='name of the receive port where
the PDF comes from'"
The PDF will be consumed by BizTalk, published in the Message Box and
the send port will be waked up.

Be careful when using large PDF files because BizTalk needs to store
the PDF file into the MessageBox database. So you can have performance
trouble with large files.

David Grospelier
d...@noveli.fr

[mj]

David Grospelier,
Thank for your quick respond this was very helpful!
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mj

[Alastair Grant]

If you want to do more than just moving the PDF files from one
location to another you could get the PDF to get moved to a temporary
location in the receive pipeline and generate a meta-data XML
describing the location etc.

This way you don't have the overhead of storing potentially large
binary data in the messagebox.