http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspxEventhough there are Portal UI and Excel that would allow you to query and access BAM activity data, it seems that there are some of you who would like to programmatically access/query this data from a custom application. In BizTalk Server Documentationen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#4522194Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:06:03 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4522194Peter<p>That's not much different from BizTalk 2004 IMO; Our dba has problems with querying the BizTalk database directly, so it's a bit of a disappointment that there is no web interface to query the detail information. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4522194" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#4432217Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:53:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4432217keithlim<p>Detail information of the activity instances can be retrieved from using all the activity views once you know what the activity names are. When you deploy an activity check all the views that are available for that activities, this allows for much greater flexibility of what you can do. </p> <p>Please post it here to get other perspectives as well: ttp://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=398&amp;SiteID=1</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4432217" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#4401866Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:42:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4401866Peter<p>If you are interested in the Activity Instances IMO the only really interesting stuff, this web service does not deliver.</p> <p>According to the msdn help on this webservice:</p> <p>&quot;The BAM Portal uses this web service for everything except the activity instance queries. Custom applications can use this web service to avoid working directly with the database.</p> <p>&quot;</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4401866" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#1479449Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:51:33 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1479449keithlim<p>Hi Amrutha,</p> <p>As long as you use those supported API, there is nothing preventing you from creating custom portal. &nbsp;Infact one area you might want to consider doing this is extending the view to view other related docs/whatever to an activity. &nbsp;See AddReference method. </p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Keith</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1479449" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#731250Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:12:12 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:731250amruthacan we develope our own portal by using these web services.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=731250" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/keithlim/archive/2006/03/08/545851.aspx#612295Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:21:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:612295Gilles' WebLogIf you have installed BAM (BizTalk Server 2004 or BizTalk Server 2006), you may have noticed that a web...<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=612295" width="1" height="1">