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Using EAI MSMQ Transport for Outbound Messaging

This section describes how to use the Siebel BizTalk interface to send an XML document to BizTalk Server using the EAI MSMQ Transport.

Setting Up an MSMQ Queue for Sending Messages

Set up an MSMQ transactional queue to receive messages from the Siebel application. You should name the queue an easy-to-identify name, such as fromSiebel. For details, see EAI MSMQ Transport and the Microsoft MSMQ documentation.

To set up BizTalk configuration objects for MSMQ Outbound

1. On the BizTalk Server machine, access the BizTalk Messaging Manager.
2. Set up your home organization as Siebel and set up applications for the home organization.

   NOTE:  For each BizTalk-specific step, see Microsoft BizTalk Server documentation for the details.

3. Create a new organization and name it appropriately. For example, if your trading partner is Oracle, enter Oracle.
4. Create a document definition for the previously created document specification from WebDAV and name it, for example, Siebel Order. See To import schema into BizTalk Server to save it as a BizTalk document specification.
5. Create a messaging port to your trading partner.
   1. In the Destination Organization window, select an organization, such as Oracle.
   2. Click Browse under Primary Transport.
   3. Select the appropriate transport for your trading partner.
   4. Complete the remaining pages as needed and click Finish to complete.
6. Create a new channel for the port created Step 5.
   1. Create a new channel "From an Application" such as, Siebel To Oracle Channel. Click Next.
   2. Select the appropriate inbound document definition, such as Siebel Order.
   3. Select the appropriate outbound document definition for your trading partner, such as Oracle Order.
   4. Select an appropriate map, if necessary.
   5. Complete other pages as required and select Finish to complete.
7. Create a Message Queuing Receive Function in the BizTalk Server Administration (for example, Siebel MSMQ Receive) to specify the queue (for example, fromSiebel) that the receive function polls. This queue is the same queue that Siebel uses to send the message using EAI MSMQ Transport.

To create the Siebel workflow for MSMQ Outbound

1. From the Site Map choose Administration - Business Process > Workflow Processes.
2. Create a new workflow process as shown below to send a message to BizTalk.

   NOTE:  For information on how to set up Siebel Workflow, see Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide.

3. Set up the process properties for your workflow as follows:

   Name	Data Type	Value
   OrderMessage	Hierarchy	-
   <Value>	String	-
   Object Id	String	record # for an order

4. Set up the first step after Start to use the EAI Siebel Adapter with the Query method to query the order from Siebel Database, using the following input and output arguments:

   Input Arguments	Type	Value	Property Name	Process Property Type
   Output Integration Object Name	Literal	Sample Order	-	-
   Object Id	Process Property	-	Object Id	String

   Property Name	Type	Value	Output Argument
   OrderMessage	Output Argument	-	Siebel Message

5. Set up the second step to use the EAI XML Converter with the Integration Object Hierarchy to XML Document method and the following input and output arguments to convert the order object to an XML document:

   Input Arguments	Type	Value	Property Name	Property Data Type
   XML Character Encoding	Literal	UTF-16	-	-
   Siebel Message	Process Property	-	Order Message	Hierarchy

   Property Name	Type	Value	Output Argument
   <Value>	Output Argument	-	XML Document

6. Set up the last step to use EAI MSMQ Transport with the Send method and the following input arguments:

   Input Arguments	Type	Value	Property Name	Process Property Type
   MsmqPhysicalQueueName	Literal	private$\name of the queue	-	-
   MsmqQueueMachineName	Literal	Machine Name that owns the MSMQ queue	-	-
   LargeMessageSupport	Literal	False	-	-
   Message Text	Process Property	-	<Value>	String

   NOTE:  XML documents must be sent in UTF-16 format for BizTalk Server to parse. In order for message queuing to work properly with BizTalk, you should disable large message support as shown above.

7. Save your workflow process and test it using Workflow Process Simulator.

   NOTE:  For details on setting up and using Siebel EAI MSMQ Transport, see EAI MSMQ Transport.