BizTalk 2010 Monitoring File Location

Question

I have a situation where my biztalk app processes PDF's by their name and sorts them to their corresponding file locations. My question is Is there a way to monitor one folder and only send out a maximum of one email per 24 hours if a file is in that folder location? I have a folder that is a catch all and I don't want an email sent for every message. Just one reminder email every 24 hours IF there is a file( or more ) in that location. Thanks all.

Answer 1

What you want is a variant of the Sequential Convoy.

Start here: http://biztalkvillage.blogspot.com/2012/12/sequential-convoy-using-listen-shape-in.html

Your Reminder Orchestration would subscribe to messages with data you want to e-mail to the users, either the original PDF emessages them selves or a custom message generated by the existing process.

In your case, the Listen Shape's Delay Shape would be initialized to the time of day you want to sent the e-mail. 4pm, 5pm, whenever.

As additional messages are received, you can build a list or just ignore them. At the end of the Orch, format and send the Message (by smtp).

Either way, the "Files Received" message will only be sent if >0 PDF's arrive.