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thzmanParticipant
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SCD does not update correctly

Hi!I beg your pardon for this somewhat lengthy post, but I try to be thorough to avoid confusion. :)I have a problem with updating an SCD.We are moving an old adress history table from another system into a SCD in TX. It has gone well so far since the old system made one insert per person per day regardless of whether there was an update or not, which has made us go from about 108M rows to about 275k rows with actual changes. So far so good. :)The problem now is that have a hard time to get this moved table to update correctly from a new source. The setup looks like this at the moment: The MDW table KIR_Persons is the correct and prepared historical data from the old system where I have fixed the From- and To-dates along with the “Is Current” flag. The “break date” for the data from the old system is 2023-10-16 which is when I made the final export.The new source for the address data is the DSA table KI0VAA0POPULATIONPERSON_QT which is the result of a query table. I’m using the DSA vie

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ebayContributor
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Relation Diagram of project

HiIn one of my projects, I created a model by transferring the table I received from DSA to MDW using view. When I wanted to create the relation diagram of this model, I saw that it could not establish a connection with the view and DSA table. How do I ensure the connection of all tables at the end of the project? There is no problem with Data Linage.Best Regards

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daniel
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BisotaStarter
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TimeXtender Training unable to add data warehouse

Hello to the community 😀 Currently I started the TimeXtender Training. I am at the point where I have to create the instances. Adding the ODX or SSL instance was no problem. But adding the MDW instance didn’t work out for me. The problem is that i can’t select any storage in the “Server storage type” field. It just says “No items found”. (While adding the ODX instance it preselects “Azure Data Lake” and I can just switch to SQL database”, but while adding the MDW instance it doesn’t give me these options) Does this problem occur to anyone else? Do I maybe have to change any configuration before the “add data warehouse step”? Thank you in advance. Kind regards,Tobias  

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
rvgfox
Problem Solver
rvgfoxProblem Solver
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Measure references should not be qualified with the table name

When we create a custom measure:TX qualifies the measure with the table name and this it’s not a good practice. It it’s the oposite that I comented in: FYI: @fwagner 

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fwagner
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lukas.gStarter
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Cannot find files in Excel Online (Sharepoint with Delegated Permission)

We use Sharepoint for multiple data sources. Connecting the Sharepoint Lists works fine and I have a OAuth for Excel Online running as well, but my data source throws an error: Cannot find file.  I need to handle multiple files according to this documentation:https://support.timextender.com/data%2Dsources%2D112/connect%2Dto%2Dexcel%2Dfiles%2Dwith%2Dexcel%2Donline%2D628 What’s the reason for this?  My App Permissions are set accordingly: My Setup looks like this:  

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Christian Hauggaard
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KajEmergoContributor
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Mapping set not working on renamed columns

Hi,In my DSA layer I succesfully added a mapping set for which the include rule has identifed two tables. All of the columns in my DSA table have been renamed so none of them align with the original names in the ODX. As a result, the mapping set tells me all of the columns are missing: This specific table was first added to the DSA for a single ODX table, then the columns got renamed and at a later moment I wanted to replace the mapping to a mapping set. Should the mapping set be able to cope with this? In essence, it would be just like doing it manually and using the ‘smart synchronize’ option. But the mapping set does not seem to work like that.Best regards,Kaj

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ZuzaGlogVisitor
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Regular Expressions (Regex) in TimeXtender

Hello community, Is it possible to do RegEx with TimeXtender? Or use Python code somewhere in TX that supports the library re? Our business case:-  We have a database with text reviews of varying lengths, where personal information is sometimes available. We want to read the database in and anonimise the values which contain personally identifiable information. For example: "oh no, ZuzaGlog doesn't know how TimeXtender works” and we want to make it "oh no, XXXXXX doesn't know how TimeXtender works”. We currently do it in Python with the library re, and a list of possible personally identifiable information. We search through the strings with reviews using the keywords from the list, and replace hits with XXXXXX. Now we want to build this solution in TimeXtender. In what way would this be possible?

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Thomas Lind
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kgoddardVisitor
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Onetime MDW historical table map

Our client has a question about a historical table in TimeXtender. They would like to know if they can make a onetime update from SSMS to populate historical records. More details on the scenario below.Scenario:Table in question is in MDW An ID merge has been done to collapse users that have created multiple accounts into on true account. Logic is done in DSA and flows to MDW. The new merged id was inserted as a new field in the MDW table, the old id was renamed. New merged id field is null for historical records where old id is populated. This makes historical queries fail.Question: Can they run a one time stored procedure in SSMS to fill in the historical records to the new merged id field? What are the potential drawbacks of this solution?

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Thomas Lind
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andrew.gebhard
TimeXtender Xpert
andrew.gebhardTimeXtender Xpert
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Nested API Call with case / if statement in RSD file

Hi community, I am trying to work with the LinkedIn API to retrieve details about UGC posts (i.e. engagements, clicks, etc.). This information is not part of the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions CDATA connector, so I am using the CDATA provider for REST 2022. I first made a call to the posts API to ‘Find Posts by Account’: Posts API - LinkedIn | Microsoft Learn. After that I need to pass each Post ID into the Organizational Entity Share Statistics API to ‘Retrieve Statistics for Specific UGC Posts’: Organization Share Statistics - LinkedIn | Microsoft Learn. The problem I am facing is that the Posts API returns two types of posts (which cannot be filtered in the API): shares and UcgPosts. Each of those types of posts needs a different URL format in the ‘Organizational Share Statistics’ API. So, I need a way to only pass one type of post into the second API. UCG posts are posts where the ID starts with 'urn:li:ugcPost:'The file RSD 1.txt works, until the first ID from the Posts API is a Ucg

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
Stefán Gunnar Jóhannsson
TimeXtender Xpert
Stefán Gunnar JóhannssonTimeXtender Xpert
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Not supported SQL server version

I’m testing out the new version of TimeXtender. I’ve downloaded the newest version of SQL Server that was suggested in the training material. I’ve created ODX and MDW instance, when I try to deploy a table in the MDW instance I get the following error: Not supported in current SQL version Version:Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM) - 16.0.1000.6 (X64)   Oct  8 2022 05:58:25   Copyright (C) 2022 Microsoft Corporation  Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0 <X64> (Build 22621: ) (Hypervisor) 

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rory.smith
TimeXtender Xpert
erik.van.mastrigt
TimeXtender Xpert
erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert
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SAP Table Data Source in ODX Server v21 - table filtering doesn't work properly

I’m struggling with the TimeXtender SAP Table Data Source version 18 in ODX Server v6429.1. In our current setup we use Table Name filtering like this: Please see the wildcards used. How does this translate to ODX Server v21? I have these three rules: The latter does not seem to work. I tried many variations (and did a sync data source consecutively), but when I click Select Tables under a transfer task, it only comes up with the tables matchin an equal-rule. Tables that should match a like-rule never show up: Using equal and wildcards doesn’t work either Any advice on how I should filter tables properly?

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bas.hopstaken
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pontus.berglundContributor
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Conditional lookup fields (in preview) for deployment in Snowflake

In the release notes for 6429.1 it says that conditional lookup fields are available “in preview” for deployments in Snowflake. What does this mean?

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Christian Hauggaard
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erik.van.mastrigt
TimeXtender Xpert
erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert
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ODX Server and unicode data source fields

Hi community,I have a MariaDB data source which I connect to using ODX Server (v 6346) and the CData/ADO.net connector for MariaDB v 23.0.8565.0.The source database is set to collation utf8mb4_general_ci. I noticed by copying from ODX Server to a Data Area that some special characters are slightly different than the source/ODX. I can fix this by manually changing the data type to nvarchar instead of varchar, but that is a lot of field editing.The Override Data Type function can help as well, but as we have a wide range of field lengths, this also means a lot of override rules.Is there a way to tell ODX Server that all varchar fields should be unicode/nvarchar by default (eg. based on the source database collation)?Example from ODX Server. These fields should all be nvarchar(xx) instead of varchar(xx): Implementing this idea would work for me as well :) In TX v20 Business Units, we had this option: 

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erik.van.mastrigt
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pontus.berglundContributor
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Mapping set not working with custom fields

Hi,I want to use mapping set to map several ODX tables with the same table structure to a single DW table.The problem is that I also want to create additional “custom fields” in the DW table, and since these fields do not exist in any of the ODX tables, the mapping set excludes all the ODX tables and I am left with an empty DW table. Is there a work around to this? or am I perhaps doing something wrong?This is my DW table: The bolded fields with descriptions do not have mappings to them, they instead have custom transformations.I have used “convert to mapping set” to get the mapping set, and then adjusted it so both tables match the mapping set rules.As seen below, both tables are then excluded since neither have the custom fields. Is it necessary that all fields have at least one mapping to them?

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anders.e.jonsson
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anders.e.jonssonContributor
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Error when creating ODX Notification on Critical Errors

Hi,We are unable to set up Notification on Critical Errors for the ODX Server. Both service and database for the ODX is on prem. The Exchange Server is deployed as a hybrid. TimeXtender version 6221.1This is the error message:  Setting up notification for the executions in the MDW’s and SSL’s is no problem. No authentication is required by the Exchange server.BRAnders

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anders.e.jonsson
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Bernarddb
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BernarddbTimeXtender Xpert
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Execution log warning column already exists

Hi all,For one of my current client's we are rectrieving a warning while syncing the odx. The task is completed and we can transfer the data. but the warning is a bit odd.We already tried to remove the folder from the data lake and try a full load. but this didn't fix the warning. Anyone any ideas?

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
rvgfox
Problem Solver
rvgfoxProblem Solver
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Error in full load packages with the last version 6429.1

I’ve detected an error (sended to support) with the packages that use full load and if the incremental rule it’s defined with a datatime field.The error it’s in the ODX transfer and I’m using a SQL data source.Hope this help you.

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
ignacio
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ignacioContributor
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ODX task scheduke is not working

I am working on a project with 3 environments Dev, UAT, and Prod. I scheduled ODX transfer task to run every 15 minutes.But any scheduled tasks are not working, I have to run the transfer tasks manually  Regards 

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ignacio
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rvgfox
Problem Solver
rvgfoxProblem Solver
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Full outer join between two tables

I’ve two tables, A and B, and I want a full outter join to obtain a table C like in the image:In T-SQL it would be:SELECT  COALESCE(A.Id, B.Id) AS Id       ,A.ValueA AS ValueA       ,B.ValueB AS ValueBFROM TableA AS A    FULL OUTTER JOIN TableB AS BON A.Id=B.Id Is it the only way to use a custom view?

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Thomas Lind
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sierd.zuiderveld
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sierd.zuiderveldContributor
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Execution has been skipped for execution package, but why?

Hey, Usually when an execution package fails to start it is due to another already running, then in the event viewer we get a message like this: Here, we see that the issue is due to another package. Now I have noticed that we occasionally also get messages like this one: Difference being that it does not show which ‘other’ package is causing this issue.  Is this a common occurrence?

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sierd.zuiderveld
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anders.e.jonsson
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anders.e.jonssonContributor
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Error i command Deploy. After upgrading to 6429

Hello,We just upgraded our sandbox to release 6429.We created environments, and Copied from Dev to Test without problems in the portal. Both MDW and SSL. SSL was mapped to the correct MDW.But after we copied from Test to Prod this error came when we tried to deploye Data Area DSA in MDW Prod. Error details in attached text file.BRAnders

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Thomas Lind
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mmaxellStarter
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HubSpot task

Hi guys, I cannot get the companies and deals table to execute in the ODX phase. The error I get: Executing table [HubSpot].[Companies]:failed with error:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Execution Timeout Expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The wait operation timed out Has anyone else seen this before? 

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Thomas Lind
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sierd.zuiderveld
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sierd.zuiderveldContributor
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Raw field can still be mapped to next table?

Hi, I believe this is a bug but perhaps intentional. When a field in the DSA is set to ‘Raw’ , you can still map it to the MDW. When you do this the field is not mapped (as it is impossible), however the table does become dirty (red). Then, when you refresh the instance, the field is actually added in the MDW, but not mapped. I attached a GIF that shows this.  

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Christian Hauggaard
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Pieter-JanExplorer
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ODX Read multiple json files from same directory

I’ve a location with multple different json files. Can i use one connector to this directory and transfer each json file, or need i to make one connector for each file? For csv files i can use one connector, for json it doesn’t seem to work this way...

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Thomas Lind
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Ikemike
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Documentation to connect Hubspot

Hey.This is maybe obvious - but I’m struggling to find the proper documentation, hoping someone can point me. We have TimeXtender version (20.10.42.64) on a remote server at the company I’m with, and I'm new in a data analyst role. We have the need to connect a new data source, Hubspot, to TimeXtender.  Is there only general documentation to connect new data sources or is there specific documentation related to Hubspot?     

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Christian Hauggaard
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