Relationship between 2 activites - BAM

Question

What are the steps need to be followed to make a relationship between 2 different activities using BAM. BizTalk 2010. How to get it reflected under related activity?
Jagadeesh RS

Answer 1

Hi Jagadeesh,
                You need to use
Continuation. Continuations allow a single activity definition to span multiple orchestrations. It can also allow you to use different unique identifiers accross those systems too. When using TPE to create a continuation. Create a continuation and
name it, then create a continuationID and name it the exact same thing.  Map an some kind of ID value (PO ID, RequestID, etc.) from a messaging shape (receive, construct, send) in the first orchestration to the continuation. Then in the second orchestration
map that same ID value to the continuationId.
The idea is that the engine will recognized that those to values match and will correlate them so that both instances can contribute data to the same Activity instance.
Below links will help you understand it in much better way.
http://tutorial.programming4.us/windows_server/BizTalk-2010-Recipes---Business-Activity-Monitoring---Creating-a-Tracking-Profile.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee277534(v=bts.10).aspx
Rachit
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