Biztalk Cannot process EDIFACT file

Question

I'm new in processing EDIFACT files. I want to process a EDIFACT file of type D:01B INTFSTA. I searched for schema in BizTalk server, created orchestration and deployed in BizTalk server. While processing the file I get the following error.

Error encountered during parsing.

Error: 1 (Miscellaneous error) 70: Cannot locate document specification because multiple schemas matched the message type "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/EDI/EDIFACT/2006#EFACT_D01B_IFTSTA".

Error: 2 (Miscellaneous error) 71: Transaction Set or Group Control Number Mismatch

Error: 3 (Miscellaneous error) 29: Invalid count specified at interchange, group or message level

. The sequence number of the suspended message is 1.

There is no other application using the same schema (D:01B INTFSTA).

Please help.

Answer 1

Most likely you have the schema deployed more than once in your BizTalk environment. In the BizTalk console, go to "All Artifacts", select "Schemas" and list alphabetically. There, search for EFACT_D01B_IFTSTA in the Root Name column. You will find that it is deployed in another application most likely.

A good practice around deploying EDI schemas btw, is to update the namespace to include the name of your trading partner. More than 1 of your trading partners may use the schema in different ways or have customizations in it. This approach lets you handle this situation.

The suggested namespace would, for example, be http://schemas.yourcompany.com/partners/yourtradingpartner

Answer 2

1. Most likely, the schema is not deployed. Check the Schemas node of the All Artifacts Application.

2&3. You test EDIFACT instance is invalid. Did you cut and paste it together? That would cause the mis-matches.

Note, it's a better practice to change the Target Namespace on the EDI schemas to something specific to the app which uses them.