Preserve Delimiter For Empty Data (Node Property of Flat File Schemas)

 

Use the Preserve Delimiter For Empty Data property to control whether empty records and/or fields within that record will still have delimiters present in instance messages.

Applies to Nodes of Type

Record

Category

Flat File

Allowed Values

Drop-down list choice	Description
Yes	Specifies that both empty fields and empty records that are immediate children of the selected Record node should have their delimiters preserved.
No	Specifies that neither empty fields nor empty records that are immediate children of the selected Record node should have their delimiters preserved.

Default Value

Yes, specifying that both empty fields and empty records that are immediate children of the selected Record node should have their delimiters preserved.

XSD Persistence

As the value of the preserve_delimiter_for_empty_data (="true" for Yes, or "false" for No) attribute of the element/annotation/appinfo/recordInfo annotation element.

Remarks

You can examine and set this property in the Visual Studio Properties window when you select a Record node (including a root Record node) in BizTalk Editor and you have:

• Configured the Flat File Extension option for the Schema Editor Extensions property of the Schema node

• Set the Structure property of the selected Record node to Delimited

When a field corresponding to a Field Element or Field Attribute node is entirely missing from an instance message, the corresponding delimiter will always be generated, regardless of the setting of this property, except when a Record follows a missing optional Field.

Note

When a Record follows a missing optional Field, delimiters will not be preserved. For more information missing flat file delimiters, see Delimiter Preservation and Suppression.

See Also

Supplemental Node Properties for Flat File Schemas