What is a Progress Dimension? What are a Progress Stage and a Progress Milestone?

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

BAM introduces a new type of dimension, the Progress Dimension. It allows aggregations of data within categories of progress status of activities. For example, the valid categories of status of a purchase order activity may be evaluating, fulfilling, shipped and denied. With this dimension, one can find out the total number or sales of purchase orders that are denied within a certain period.

In BizTalk 2006, the terms progress stage and milestone are used in place of child and sibling. A progress stage represents a transient state of an activity instance. On the other hand, once