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Override datatype doenst work with TX Enhanced Drivers

  • April 13, 2026
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I have a large table with about 50 columns. 
There is column called projectNumber. This column, i am unable to override.

This column is varchar. However in TX with Enhanced Drivers it shows Int32.

I have overridden it to Text
 

It even says so in Data type overrides on the DataSource

 

I have even tried adding and removing it in Table builder

 

 

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rory.smith
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  • TimeXtender Xpert
  • April 13, 2026

Hi,

you might want to set the culture settings to either en-us or your local region and see if that changes anything. You can also turn on two useful features to help track down issues:

  • debug logging: will generate a central logfile that contains the calls and dynamic values amongst other things
  • caching: by default the connectors work in-memory, but you can specify a folder to log to, this will create raw (response from the API), XML (conversion of raw to xml) and transformed (conversion of XML through table builder)

It is probably good to check if the raw response from the API looks strange.


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  • April 13, 2026

Turning on Culture didn’t help.

The issue is that I am unable to override the datatype for that column. The value it receives is Text, while datasouce is expects it to be Int.

This works fine with CData because I can override the values both on Data source and RSD-file. 


rory.smith
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  • April 13, 2026

Hi,

have you already turned on exhaustive metadata scanning in the endpoint? It should parse all the data and determine field types based on that instead of on the first few records.