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Diagnosing an issue with a BizTalk app where part of it's logic doesn't seem to be triggering.

Currently it's designed to use a Decision Shape to filter on 2 values from a specific message.

One of those values is the word 'staff' in lower case, whereas the map that constructs the message uses a string functoid to populate the value as 'Staff' (sentence case).

I'd test this to see if it's the cause, but we don't currently have a test environment, and there's about 8 apps that this is a dependency on, so I'd need to go through a convoluted process of taking them all offline and deploying the small fix at a gamble.

On that basis, would anyone know; Is BizTalk Decide Shape Expression logic case sensitive?

Dijkgraaf
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  • You don't have a development environment where you can test it? – Dijkgraaf Jan 28 '20 at 06:51
  • Historically no, and not by my choosing (relatively new to the organisation). It's something I'm currently building a proposal for. – mrc85 Jan 28 '20 at 07:49
  • Well this incident is a classic example of why you NEED development and test environments, so you can 1) diagnose the issue 2) test the fix. I will test this scenario for you and let you know – Dijkgraaf Jan 28 '20 at 17:45
  • Cheers mate, appreciate that. Already have this scenario down as a key example. – mrc85 Jan 29 '20 at 08:03

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Yes, the decide shape is case sensitive.

I tested with a rule 

Message(FILE.ReceivedFileName) == "D:\\in\\YES.xml"

I dropped through a files YES.xml, yes.xml and YES.XML, and only the YES.xml went through the Rule branch, the other files went through the Else.

This is probably due to C# being case sensitive, see Is there a C# case insensitive equals operator?

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