TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi,I try to connect data source to ODX from TimeXtender Portal. I tried with different data provider (Postgresql and CSV). Both data source are stored in the same machine as ODX server and TimeXtender Server. While I got the error of “Test connection request timed out. Please make sure your ODX server is running and try again.”.The TimeXtender server and ODX server are both running. I checked the connection with command, and it is ok. Test-NetConnection timextender-repositories.database.windows.net -Port 1433

 Hi everybody, Probably unnecessary but for the ones living/working in Europe I just wanted to inform that daylight saving time will change to winter time this weekend. This means that for those who have an ODX server or the “new” version (6XXX) of TimeXtender, the scheduled tasks/jobs will take place one hour earlier than currently set.This also brought me to the question how we could automate this? Any thoughts about this? Maybe an option in TimeXtender to use local time instead of UTC?Kind regards,Devin

HI Team, Please can you help me understand how to connect TX with common data service connector? I am trying to bring the data from D365 field service to TX. With Power BI i can use common data service connector and extract the data from FS. But i want to use TX to do ETL. Please help!!

Hi all, We experience a weird issue where our execution package seems to run itself? This happens for a total of 3 times in the execution. Then, when it succeeds it'll kick off the next package where it will happen again. This just started to occur in the past week, before everything worked normally.  Has anyone else experienced this? This is the setup of the package.  Any help would be appreciated. 

Hey all,  We use incremental load in the ODX on a datetime field and we use an offset of 3 days (again in ODX). Now we've noticed that when we load a table from ODX to the data warehouse (even when full loading) that the _R table can contain duplicate records. In our Data Lake each increment is a parquet file of the last 3 days of data, since we load every day these files can overlap by 2 days. I believe this overlap is the cause of the duplicates in our _R table.  What happens next is that the Error report gets spammed with “Violation of primary key constraint” (which is true). But our Valid table does have the expected result. A full load transfer task solves the issue, but of course we do not want to do that all the time.   Is this the intended design? Is there a page that explains how the ODX handles these parquet files before inserting them into the Raw table? Any suggestions or insights on how to handle

I've created view, and successfully deployed and executed, but while previewing the table it says timeout error, but that view I can open it in SSMS server, it takes 2 minutes to execute the view in server.what are steps or setting i should change to preview it in Timextender.

The %Status% and %ExecutionPackage% work nicely in the subject line of notifications but I can’t make the %Instance% parameter work.Does anyone have a fix for this?(aside from creating instance-specific jobs/notifications and type the instance name in the subject line)

Hi, I am in the proces of migrating old Power BI managed data sources to our data warehouse in TimeXtender. However, in power query I use a function called List.Dates to create a row for each data between two dates. The data in this situation is sick days. Example below of what I need it to become: Sickdatefrom SickdateTo Sickday 1-1-2024 3-1-2024 1-1-2024 1-1-2024 3-1-2024 2-1-2024  In summary: I need to be able to add the Sickday column in TimeXtender just like I do in Power Query. I couldn't find anything online related to this subject. I am reading all thsis data from a CSV file by the way.

EditOffset value in incremental rule is not available for my Tx version I suppose. UpdateDate is a DateTime column and my UpdateTS an Integer. I’ll see if I can combine them in a single field somehow in the backend.TX20.10.35.64I try to set up incremental loading with a separate Date & Time column but can't seem to find the right way. Found an older source below indicating it's not possible, since it results in a OR clause instead of a AND clause.I am also not able to set up a distraction on my date column to say UpdateDate - 1 day for some reason. Is there another way to do this in the meantime instead of only the date column?Is source based incremental load possible on separate date and time fields? – TimeXtender Support

I have a new Azure VM that I am installing with the latest version of the ODX server in preparation of upgrading from TX 20.10 to the new version.I have a new adlsgen2 storage account available as storage for the ODX. A service principal (enterprise application) in the Entra ID is created with a (confirmed working) secret.I have added the ODX Instance in the portal with the following configuration:  The app reg has Owner rights on the adlsgen2:  Still I get a 403 error when trying to create the storage container (the container does not already exist): 

Hi Folks,I have a painful process that involves uploading csv files into my ODX on ad-hoc basis. In the DSA, i use transformations to pull the existing fields apart into various new fields. This table has history enabled to track when key values change. I then push to the MDW, minus some of the ugly data and using SCD To and From dates to track changing dimensions.A new set of entries with some extra parenthesis broke my job. I have a new set of case statements to deploy to the DSA history table, but as I went to deploy it, I panicked. The normal deploy and execute for a table without history will clear existing data and reload from scratch. Does the same happen with a history table?This table would be a nightmare to rebuild.TX version 19.11.7.64

TimeXtender Version 20.10.35.64I'm integrating 6 SQL databases/sources from the same ERP at the moment and want to set up incremental loading on my data source & DSA. I followed the basic steps but it seems like refreshing the incremental DSA tables takes way longer than a full load.The ODX datasources incremental LOAD tasks from all 6 data sources finish under 60 seconds, but the DSA load for e.g. AP_Products table now takes almost 15 minutes, for ± 40.000 rows, against 3 minutes for a full load.  My Last modified DateTime column is ‘Date_Captured’ and is applied on the tables below. For all the 4 tables the PK's are set up.

I have two tables Groups and GroupMembers. I need to get in GroupMember ONLY the members of the groups in the Groups table (INNER JOIN).The only way in TX without using views is: But it's not really a mistake.How can I do it?

Hi team,  How is the process to set my account as TX administrator? Now I am a user and I can't run ODX 's transfer option or create a new schedule

 I am trying to set up access to some tables in the ODX. when I try to add a role and search for an Azure AD user I get the error: Service request failed: Code: Authorization_RequestDenied ...Module: TimeXtender.ODX.EngineTimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXFaultException   at TimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXEngine.SendServiceRequest[C,T](WcfServerSettings serverSettings, Func`3 func)   at TimeXtender.DataManager.AddODXSecurityRoleWizard_MemberSelectStep.<>c__DisplayClass11_0.<SearchClicked>b__0()   at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.ExecuteConnectingThread(Object dummy)Service request failed: Code: Authorization_RequestDenied ...Module: timeXtenderTXModelInterface.ExceptionWrapperException   at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.HandleError()   at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.Execute(String title, Int32 progressSteps, List`1 actions)   at TimeXtender.DataManager.AddODXSecurityRol

We are facing a problem with a ODX data lake storage table. The problems are appearing at two points in our Data Warehouse:The ODX transfer tasks gives the warning “Table folder X is used by another table with id Y” When using the ‘Preview’ option from TX interface in ODX storage we get the error “The azure data lake gen2 data storage table folder has invalid meta data. The ODX must transfer the table again”Using ‘Synchronize objects’ on ODX server does not do anything at all. Moreover, executing the table in DSA still works without errors and seems to contain new data. Also, in our Azure storage account we can see the transfer task adds new versions of the table every day (scheduled transfer task) even though it gives us the warning 1).By the way, the table ID that the error on ODX transfer task gives us does not correspond with the TableId that we can see in the _model.json file in the corresponding folder in our Azure storage account. Wher

I have just downloaded the ODX Server and TimeXtender and it looks like TimeXtender has a new version: 6534.1 are there release notes coming for this?

Hi everyone,I’m coming across some specific drawbacks of using the semantic models in TimeXtender in combination with PowerBI. I hope this is due to my lack of understanding or design choices and hoping it can be fixed.While working OT(A)P (DEV / TST / PRD) we have found that looking at the development environment with PowerBI is too much of a hassle, too many changes, wrong data, just too much development to keep up in the semantic models and PowerBI is not flexible when it comes to name changes etc.We decided to delete the semantic models from DEV and start building the model in TST. (For early data exploration we can still build the model in PowerBI itself on the MDW). In PowerBI we use the pipelines and we can connect TST-TST and PRD-PRD. But what would be even better is connect a PowerBI DEV workspace to TST, and the PowerBI TST and PRD workspaces to the PRD endpoint so that we can test the dashboard on production data, give it the green light and ther

Dear Sir,Our customer has an issue for scheduled semanctic models.ODX and DWH instances run succesfully when scheduled, but the semantic models are not running.The semantic model is running successfully by hand, but when the package is automated in a scheduled setting the package execution fails. Execution overview SemanticError semanticHopefully you can shine a light on this issue. Our client is running TimeXtender version 6436.1.Regards,Arthur van RijnFourpoints 

Hi, I have created and populated a small table in Dataverse using a Power App.There are no problems accessing and reading data from the table with Power BI Desktop.But I don't really understand how to use CData's connector (Microsoft Dataverse (23.0.8749.0) 64bit). Does anyone know which fields to fill in for the authentication itself? Username and password or equivalent. BRAnders

As shown in figure, Sales Ord Is My Base Table, and second table is Sales_ORD_LN_PROD_FAM,what i want to do is, Fetch PROD_FAM_NO,SALES_ORD_LN_NO column in to Sales Ord Table,Sales_Ord_No is same column in both Table,Is there any way to do it,

I have a very big table with millions of records.I’ve divided it in three mappings : aggregate, historical and current.If I need to do a full load only for the current mapping, what can I do it?

Hi,I have a working connection to an S3 bucket with CSV files, using the CData CSV connector.I would like to create a solution where I read only the latest file added to the bucket.Calling the stored procedure “ListFiles” (https://cdn.cdata.com/help/RVJ/ado/pg_sp-listfiles.htm) in a query table returns a table of the files, with filename and created timestamp.Is it possible to call ListFiles in an .rsd file? If so, I think it would be possible to access the created timestamp in another .rsd file using a query slicer which can be used to get the latest file.Have anyone solved this problem, or something similar? I am using the latest version, 6512.1. 

I share with you a document and a video to show the problems I have found in TX and suggestions for improvement.In the video I’m showing how to use Tabular Editor to solve the problems. Show my video

We are using the Azure Data Factory - PostgreSQL 14.0.0.0 data source connector and cannot run the synchronize task. We have selected ‘All tables’ in the data source setup but get an error in ADF:“Failure happened on 'Source' side. ErrorCode=UserErrorInvalidValueInPayload,'Type=Microsoft.DataTransfer.Common.Shared.HybridDeliveryException,Message=Failed to convert the value in 'queryTimeout' property to 'System.TimeSpan' type. Please make sure the payload structure and value are correct.,Source=Microsoft.DataTransfer.DataContracts,''Type=System.ArgumentException,Message=Object of type 'System.Int64' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.,Source=mscorlib”The error seems to be related to the ‘Command timeout’ setting in the TX portal, which we set to 1440 but ADF wants it to be a ‘System.TimeSpan’ type?When we want to use ‘Select tables’ on the ODX data source the screen runs ‘Search tables’ for a split second and then the results remain empty, no ta