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alfred.kristinssonStarter

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Data Export - From Business Unit

I have used the data export tool to export to .csv files. However I can not do it straight from the Business Unit. Is that a feature that can be added? Or maybe not included in client license. The client wants a few tables from source to be transfered to Azure Data Lake as a csv file and do some tranformation there.

3 days ago

LuukNTSVisitor

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Using PowerBI Premium Tabular for TimeXtender Legacy instead of AAS

There's loads of documentation about AAS and PowerBI Premium tabular models being mostly identical in use. Currently we are using 2 expensive AAS servers to host our development and testing semantic models. Transferring these 2 environments to a PPU environment within PowerBI would save allot of money. Within the current version of TimeXtender there is a separate option to select a Premium Tabular model instead of AAS. This is something the legacy version does not have. But why would TimeXtender need to know the difference. In working with either Premium or AAS their XMLA connection is exactly the same. Setting a migration from AAS to Premium and then simply exchanging the links within the environment properties seems like a simple enough plan. As i found in the following link the important part would be having an updated library to do this data transfer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/client-libraries?view=azure-analysis-services-currentOther than this i don't see

4 days ago

wilsb01Starter

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I'm encountering a truncation error when synchronizing Dynamic AX Adapter data source in my Business Unit

We have an upgraded MS Dynamics 365 environment, from which we publish to an Azure SQL database. When I attempt to attach an existing project to it to synchronize data source (using a SQL data source connector as the project normally does) I can connect with a test connect, but then after building the selection tree, TimeXtender throws the error “The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type nvarchar of the specified target column. String or binary data would be truncated." Since it isn’t yet part of project execution but rather a TimeXtender comparison operation, I’m somewhat befuddled as to how to proceed. I’m not sure if this belongs in data sources or desktop, so took a guess on placement.

4 days ago

mikkel.hansenStarter

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Reconnecting to a source getting "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error

Thanks in advance for any help.We had a dev deploy but not execute a table before he left for the day. Someone else loaded the table and when he closed the project, no one else could get in. Imported a day-old backup, was able to reload all of the tables. Started working on creating some new dimension and when tried to sync to the source system (Epic Clarity) SQL Server database, got the above error. Full message below: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Module: timeXtender System.NullReferenceException at TimeXtender.DataManager.BulkedInformationSchema.ReadSchema(Guid datasourceId, String overrideSql, Boolean deleteExistingRecords) at TimeXtender.DataManager.DataSource.BulkTransferADO(Boolean readForeignKeys) at TimeXtender.DataManager.DataSource.RefreshInformationSchema() at TimeXtender.DataManager.ReadDataSourceObjectsCommand.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.<ExecuteCommand>b__0() at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.ExecuteConnectingThread(O

2 years ago

mchinskyExplorer

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Can you protect your project from piracy?

I know you can lock a project from editing, but is there a way to password protect a project we install on a client's server so they can't view how we built it? We've spent hundreds of hours building an ERP integration that we want to sell multiple times and don't want a client or competitor to simply rebuild it by exporting, or just looking at the project design and mimicking it.

2 years ago

p.ruijterStarter

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Multiple environments, different load settings

I have a question about multi environments and transferring. In addition to production, we have set up a development and test environment in TimeXtender with separate databases. This all works great. However, we want to work with a limited set of data in the development environment. We don't want to constantly have to wait for an execution in the development environment. We also do not want the test and development environment to fill up the hard disk too much. Now the question: is it possible to use a filter (for example load all data from last 30 days) in the development environment (in stead of incremental load) and to continue to use it incrementally load in the test and production environment? The filter should not overwrite the incremental setting during a transfer! So we want transferring data from different environments with different load settings.

2 years ago

coen.dondersStarter

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How to create one central ODX fot both Test and Production environment

I have a separate Test and Production environment. Currently each environment has its own ODX database. But some cloud API source systems charge euros for loading records through an API connection. I’m therefor checking how I can limit the data transaction on the source systems. Also we only use production data in Pest and Production. Since we use Azure I don't want to load all the production data twice. One way is to use 1 shared ODX for both Test and Production. Then I only have to load the source data ones. I can think of the following options: 1. Use the ODX server I've tested the ODX server but I can't use historic tables and incremental loads don't work on most API connections. I also encountered limitations on a firebird SQL data source. So the ODX server doesn't seem like a workable solution 2. Use an external ODX business unit A external business unit works. But how can I use a single external ODX for both Test and Production as these environments run on different project repo

2 years ago

mark.ferrisStarter

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Use tables from one project in another project (from the same database)

We have multiple TimeXtender projects that use the same databases for their ODX/DSA/MDWs. What is the best way to use tables from one project in another one of the other projects? "Add External SQL Connection" seems to be an option, should this still be used if the table we want to connect to is in the same database?

2 years ago

maarten.vanheurStarter

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subscription license activation failed with following reason: access to codeletter.xml is denied.

hi since this morning I get the message displayed in title. It is an Azure environment, TimeXtender was working on Friday, nothing changed on the license key... Any idea where to find/how to solve this issue??? thanks in advance Mrt

2 years ago

pchanduStarter

asked in Legacy & Upgrades

Mapping Saving

where the mappings saved in timextender?? Is there any chance to store the Mapping details in SQL Server?

2 years ago

hongwei.panStarter

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Issue: after deploy project in development environment, Data missing on scheduled execution with no errors in production environment

Now every time when I deploy my project in environment development, I need to deploy this project in environment production too. Event I don't want transfer my development project to production. If not, When executing projects on a schedule, the execution finishes without error, but tables end up empty. I don't know because I changed version (version 20.10.2.64) or I have configured something wrong, in last year I didn't have this issue.

1 year ago

sierd.zuiderveldStarter

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Global Database Catalog missing

I am following the TimeXtender Basics course and at a certain point I am asked to create a new Global Database (specifically Datawarehouse) through the following steps:Create Global Database for DSAIn the Tools menu select Environment Properties Click New Global Database Type in DSA in the Name box Select Data Warehouse in the Type drop-down list and click OK Click the settings text box Type localhost in the Server text box Type TX_DSA_DEV in the Catalog text box Right click the settings text box, select Create Database and click OK, when notified of successful creationHowever at step 7. I get stuck as there is no catalog row. Does someone know how to fix this issue? I'm on version 20.10.23.64

1 year ago

cwatkinsStarter

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TimeXtender Server Can't Start After Upgrade

I just upgraded from Discovery Hub 20.1.6.64 to TimeXtender 20.10.26.64and upgraded the repository. Everything works well with the deploy and execute, but when I try to restart the service, I get an error in the event log. Service cannot be started. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 Could someone please assist?

1 year ago

satish.padarthiParticipant

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Data Dictionary

Did anyone have a data dictionary that has been pulled from timextender system database. The ideal one I am looking at is either a search option on a html where you can look for a table with all the columns, descriptions and data mapping(source). Or if anyone did similar one on an excel document will equally help me.

2 years ago

david.kesselheimStarter

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Truncation SSIS error

Hi,We are trying to read a csv file and truncating some columns because our table would be too large otherwise. Unfortunately deploy and execute fails with this error:"Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "name" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page."."We are pretty sure it isn't an encoding problem because when we increase the column size ("Length") in "Edit multiple text files"->"Columns" we can read the data just fine so the error must occur because of the truncation.Does anybody know what options we have to use to let TimeXtender know that we are ok with the truncation of the data in the columns?Thanks,David

4 years ago

martin.oloughlinVisitor

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cube filtering

Just after some advice about whether something is possible.I have developed a data-warehouse that encompasses all products, However due to the nature of the business what I want to do is create two separate cubes, both that only report on a selection of the products, i am trying to avoid extra security roles in Targit which is used to browse the cubes or creating extra SQL tables which i believe would enable me to achieve the result but with more to manage.Is it possible to add a filter to a cube so that it only includes some dimension members?

4 years ago

jyothi.dosiStarter

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Convert decimal to whole number (Cube measure)

HiI know it is quite silly but I am not able to be figure out how to convert a measure which is in 4.97 into whole number as 5?

4 years ago

rogier.heerkensVisitor

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Firewall settings

Hi,to configure the multiple environment setup I used the PDF (https://legacysupport.timextender.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001136526-How-to-configure-Multiple-Environments) , and everything works well when all the firewalls are turned off.We have opened port 10001 and 5001, but when the firewall is turned on, my DEV environment can't connect with the Production environment.My setup now is a Development server and a Production server.When I want to connect from Development to Production, I see the servers negotiating on port 10001 and 5001. But after that, they continue to work with a port in the 64xxx range (examples: 64135,64177,64281 etc) e.g. a random port.My firewall won't except this, and I would like to know if it is possible to work with a standard range / port so we can configure our firewall accordingly.Kind regards,Rogier

4 years ago

jyothi.dosiStarter

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How to increase font size of TX window

Hi Can anyone please help me as I am struggling to increase the font size of TX window, it is too hard to read table names

2 years ago

mchinskyExplorer

asked in Legacy & Upgrades

Merge projects

We are providing clients with a preconfigured data warehouse for an ERP system. We will continue to make enhancements and improvements.The client will eventually add additional fields and user defined fields for their own needs.What's the easiest way to merge in our improvements to the changes they have already made to an older version?

3 years ago

jnortonStarter

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when to use single quotes in Project Variables

what is the right scenario for using single quotes to wrap project variables? Let's say i have a data constraint added to a field and i am using a dynamic project variable like, soin this scenario, i am comparing a data to another date, and i have the variable encased in single quotes.I always assumed the single quotes was how Discovery Hub "renders" the underlying variable, but i recently found that my assumption was untrue. is the single quotes only to be used when evaluating a character string? or are there some rules to apply wrapping in single quotes. Note: the variable above is a dynamic -> select max({datefield}) from {table} statement, under the covers.

3 years ago

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