Hi

The other day, I suddenly found myself in a situation, where I needed to use the "Find message" functionality and HAT to find a message, and I needed to filter on a promoted property.

My problems started appearing, when there were no promoted properties to select in the Message properties filter view. I had chosen my schema, but still, the dropdowns for promoted properties were empty.

So I checked that tracking of both message bodies and promoted properties were enabled in the receive port. Yes, they were... so I started wondering what might be the cause of this. And then I though: Oh yeah, you need to enable tracking of these individually in HAT. But in HAT I couldn't find anywhere to enable this. That stunned me for a couple of minutes. Turns out, that was in BizTalk 2004

Whoops

And the I remembered that I needed to do two things in order to get the tracking of promoted properties to work:

The first is to enable the tracking in the receive port:

And the second thing is to enable tracking of each specific promoted property - and now I remembered it isn't in HAT anymore, it is in BizTalk Server Administration for each schema. So open BizTalk Server Administration. Go to the application that has the schema, for which you need to track promoted properties. Go to the schemas collection of this application, double click on the appropriate schema, go to the tracking pane, and here you must select the properties to track.

I googled this a lot, but had great difficulty finding any information... that's the reason for this post.

I hope others will find it useful in the future.

Comments are welcome

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eliasen