Something I’ve noticed while working on an orchestration:
To add a shape, you can either right-click on a Shape connector line or use the BizTalk Orchestration Toolbox.
It can be quite frustrating sometimes when you use the first way because the shapes are not in alphabetical order so you have to read them all in order to get what you want.
If you right click on the shape connector line, show the choice of shapes and press one of the key below, the corresponding shape will appear.
Not such a big deal, but still useful.
W: Throw Exception
E: Send
T: Start Orchestration
Y: Delay
U: Construct Message
I: Decide
O: Loop
P: Parallel
A: Terminate
S: Scope
D: Suspend
F: Transform
G: Group
L: Listen
X: Expression
C: Call Orchestration
V: Receive
M: Message Assignment
R: Call Rules (works only in atomic scopes…)
N: Compensate (provided you’re in a compensation block)
