Transforms

A Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs Transform is a feature of Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs that is designed to manipulate data. Consider this scenario:

An incoming message contains customer data, including First Name, Last Name, Street Address, City, State and Zip Code. When this data is received, you want to combine First Name and Last Name into a single value.

Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs is your answer. Using a Transform, the incoming message data can be manipulated to the desired output.

Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs Transforms have the following benefits:

• Many transform scenarios are now handled by the built-in Map Operations, including string manipulation, looping, arithmetic expressions, list functionality, cumulative operations, Date/Time and additional functionality like Data Lookup.
  
  
• Transforms can be configured within an Enterprise Application Integration project.
  
  
• A Transform project (EDI Project (artifacts)) can be created independent of an Enterprise Application Integration project. This allows the Trading Partner Management (TPM) to use only a Transform as part of a Trading Partner Agreement instead of an Enterprise Application Integration application.
  
  

Transforms are also used in EDI. When configuring an X12 agreement between EDI partners, a Transform can be added. See Specifying X12 Receive Settings and Specifying X12 Send Settings.

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