All Group Node Properties

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Use an All Group node when all of its child nodes may appear once or not at all, and in any order, in instance messages.

When you select an All Group node in BizTalk Editor, you can examine and set its associated properties in the Visual Studio Properties window. These properties are divided into the following categories:

  • Advanced. This category contains properties that correspond to XSD concepts that can be categorized as advanced, such as converting the group definition from local to global.

  • General. This category contains properties that correspond to XSD concepts that can be categorized as basic, such as setting the allowed number of occurrences of the element group.

Many of the properties associated with All Group nodes correspond directly to the semantics of XML Schema definition language (XSD) constructs.For links to information about XSD concepts and specifications, see XSD Resources on the Web.

The following table shows the properties associated with All Group nodes that are available in all schemas.

Property name Category Description
Group Reference Advanced Specifies the globally defined group referenced by the selected All Group node, or a new name for this group, thereby converting it to a global All Group node.
Max Occurs General Specifies the maximum number of times that to the underlying group content of the selected All Group node can occur.
Min Occurs General Specifies the minimum number of times that the underlying group content of the selected All Group node can occur.
Namespace General Displays the namespace for the selected All Group node.
Node Name General Displays the name of the selected All Group node, as displayed in the schema tree. This name has one of the following forms:

- <All> (the default, when the Group Reference property has no value).
- <Group:X>, where "X" is the value of the Group Reference property.
Order Type Advanced Identifies the selected node as an All Group node, and allows it to be converted to a Sequence Group or Choice Group node.

See Also

Sequence Group Node Properties
Choice Group Node Properties
Node Properties - By Node Type
Node Properties - Alphabetical Listings