When does BAM track if running from a tracking profile

Question

If using a tracking profile, built using the TPE - when does the message get tracked?

I had thought it would always track before maps are applied on receive ports and track after maps are applied on send ports, but this seems not to be the case. I can't find documentation of this on MSDN.

I am using BizTalk 2013r1

Answer 1

After some more investigation and testing I found the following:

• The tracking profile is always applied at the end of the pipeline
• Maps applied directly to ports, in the conventional way are applied:
  • at the end of a receive pipeline
  • at the beginning of a send pipeline
• Standard Receive: adapter --> disassemble etc-->track-->map-->msgbox
• Standard Send: msgbox --> map --> assemble etc-->track --> adapter

In my case the tracking was happening after a received message had been mapped but this was because the particular receive location was using a customer pipeline component to execute the map, rather than relying on the "standard" method of assigning a map to use in the bindings.

Hope this helps somebody with the same problem in future