Biztalk - can I change the receive port of an existing receive location?

Question

I have two different receive ports and two receive locations - one location assigned to each port. The ports are set to receive the exact same type of file - I ended up with both because I consolidated two different applications that did the same thing.

I want to combine both locations into a single receive port, but I don't seem to be able to change the location that either belongs to - there's no option to do this that I can find. Essentially, I just want to take one location (either - I don't care), and assign it to the other port, so that one port has two locations and the other has none.

Does somebody know of a way to change the receive port of an existing location?

Answer 1

I resorted to the dark side, and updated the SQL table manually. I'd still welcome anybody who has a legitimate, supported way to do this, but to any others who need an answer, here's the script I wrote to fix this problem (no side-effects so far, though it's only been a day):

DECLARE @AppName             VARCHAR(255),
        @ReceiveLocationName VARCHAR(255),
        @NewReceivePortName  VARCHAR(255)

SET @AppName = 'Your application name'
SET @ReceiveLocationName = 'Name of your existing receive location'
SET @NewReceivePortName = 'Name of receive port to move location to'

DECLARE @NewPortID INT
DECLARE @ReceiveLocationID INT

SELECT @NewPortID = rp.[nID]
  FROM [BizTalkMgmtDb].[dbo].[bts_application] a
  JOIN [BizTalkMgmtDb].[dbo].[bts_receiveport] rp
    ON a.nID = rp.nApplicationID
 WHERE a.nvcName = @AppName
   AND rp.nvcName = @NewReceivePortName

SELECT @ReceiveLocationID = Id
  FROM [BizTalkMgmtDb].[dbo].[adm_receivelocation]
 WHERE Name = @ReceiveLocationName

UPDATE [BizTalkMgmtDb].[dbo].[adm_receivelocation]
   SET ReceivePortId = @NewPortID,
       IsPrimary = 0
 WHERE Id = @ReceiveLocationName