TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi,We are currently trying to figure out the new gen of Timextender, and I’m finding the setup with jobs a bit lacking. Perhaps I’ve just missed something, but here are a few things that bug me. As far as I can understand, the way to go when scheduling in the DW is to set up your execution packages in the execution tab. Then we need to set up a Job that schedules the execution packages. In my trials I intentionally set up a package to fail, and first of all the monitoring view of jobs do not show any information about the error: Jobs monitoringIf I go into the execution log, I can see an error message that essentially just says that the job didn’t succeed.

In this screen:It’s not possible to delete a member. The only way it’s delete the “RLS Setup” and create it again. It’s crazy.. Another crazy situation it’s that if you define a Dynamic RLS Setup and press ok and enter to to see it, it’s lost...

Normally I’m using the default type:Can anyone explain the different behaviors?

I’m facing this issue:This package is scheduled to run every half an hour. On rare occacions the package executes itself as shown on the picture to the left (blue rectangle) and the execution log shows both executions as successful. We would like to know any insight to help us solve this issue.  Some things to consider:At the customer’s request the package is being run from the Task Scheduler.  The execution log does not show any errors as shown in the image above (green rectangle) This is how the retries are setup: The task scheduler showed this warning:

Hi all,I have some customers that are reloading data every x minutes in ODX Server (V20.10.x). This generates a lot of execution log entries. When I open the Execution Log in the ODX Server, it takes a long time. I think that removing old execution logs will improve the speed of opening this execution log overview window. I have no idea if it is possible to delete old execution log entries?Another option could be that the execution log view first shows the datetime range you like to see logs and then opens the overview. 

Hi, I have a SSAS tabular model that is deployed to Azure. The model executes fine most of the time and it take around 3 minutes to complete but sometime it takes long time to finish the execution (running for 12 hours but still not completed, so killed the process instead). So, is there any way to failed the execution if takes over 1 hour? I cannot see any timeout setting for SSAS tabular. I am using version 20.10.22.64Thanks. 

We are facing a performance issue while fetching the data from D365 F&O using CData provider. While fetching a data entity with around 700K records, It was taking around 1:20 mins, now when we execute it, its running for 10+ hours with no response. While executing we noticed a SQL session with bulk insert command from TimeXtender with suspended state. and on the D365 database there are multiple session of batch process to fetch the data based on partition number. Since we are witnessed multiple sessions keeps executing, we would like to understand how the batch size is defined. And how we can customize the batch. Or any other way to set the connection properties which pull’s the data faster.Query for Ref :FROM Table_XXXXXXX T2 WHERE ((((((T2.PARTITION=5637144576) AND ((T2.PARTITION#2=5637144576) OR (T2.PARTITION#2 IS NULL))) AND (T2.PARTITION#3=5637144576)) AND (T2.PARTITION#4=5637144576)) AND (T2.PARTITION#5=5637144576)) AND (T2.PARTITION

I’m importing a table which is supposed to have an integer primary key, but the data is messy and we find things like “6TEST3” or “CREDIT3” in this field. I want to read the table and use this field as an integer, however can’t convert it because of those rows. Is there a way to remove a row if I can’t convert a field value to integer?

In v20.10.43, I’ve come across a bunch of auto-generated views with a _BCV suffix.Are they used for merged (incremental?) loading in the next layer, or what’s the purpose of these views?Why do they need to be redeployed whenever I do a managed deployment?And why does the SQL Clean Up Wizard delete them when they’re being used?(I haven’t tested if this could happen in a v6284.1 MDW)

Hi TimeXtender, We’re seeing the following scenario: We have a execution package ‘A’ that is set up with an usage condition and a next package ‘B’ in the post execution steps.Now, when we manually execute package ‘A’ through the user interface and the usage condition resolves false, the display message appears with this information, package 'A’ won't start as expected and, importantly, the next package 'B’, from the 'Run Package’ setting, won't start as well.However, when the same execution package 'A’ is triggered through the scheduler, we see that even though package 'A’ won't start, because the usage condition returns false, the next package 'B’ in this case does start executing. Is this something you are familiar with or are able to reproduce? Extra information is that package 'B’ doesn't have an usage condition applied and we're running TX 20.10.43.64. Best regards,Luuk Bouman

HelloI am wondering, how can I connect to Zip File? I searched and asked Xpilot and then I get this answer: To connect a Zip file in TimeXtender, you can use the "File" data source type. But I couldnt find File datasource. Has the name changed or is there another method?Best Regards

Hi,To my knowledge it is not possible to setup alerts for errors or warnings on validation rules.However, I read the following on the TimeXtender Sales Hub:"Set up automated alerts to notify you when data quality rules are violated, data quality issues are detected, or executions fail to complete.” (https://coda.io/d/TimeXtender-Sales-Hub_d3yl25w6y3Y/Data-Quality_sueAz#_luZ9c).Does someone know if this is possible, and if so, how? If not this would be a nice idea though! Kind regards,Devin

Hi,I normally use Custom transformation (CASE statements) when I need to populate a field based on multiple conditions, in this case multiple “OR” conditions (Logical disjunction) . It was brought to my attention not to use CASE statements in Custom transformations. So I have below an example using a fixed value transformation but I want to add two conditions to populate only when it is ‘FL’ or ‘OL’. When I add these conditions the conditions are on separate lines but still TX makes an “AND” logic of it so instead of (like ‘FL%’ or like ‘OL%’) it translate it to (like ‘FL%’ & like ‘OL%’). How can I get the “OR” instead of “AND”?   

We are facing an issue with one of our clients in which we built out a UAT environment to promote proper development but have come across an issue where we have a fully built TX Semantic Layer on the production environment, but we do not have it built out for the TX UAT environment. The reason behind this was because the test Qlik Sense environment was not available initially, and we could not successfully execute packages on the TX uat environment, so we decided to work without it on TX uat. Now that we have an operational test Qlik Sense environment, we want to export the semantic layer from TX production to TX uat environment. Is there a way for us to do this in TimeXtender? We are trying to avoid large amount of manual work to build this out on the TX uat environment and we dont want to export project from Prod to UAT as that will override all our work in UAT environment. Prod TX Semantic Layer

Hello,I have a history enabled table with a lookup field. The lookup field is marked as type I (update record). However, the record is only updated with the new values in the table from which the lookup field is retrieved, if the record is available in the raw variant of the history table. If the record has been updated in the mean time, the lookup field is never triggered to be updated.Is there a way to have the lookup fields be updated in a history enable table without the record being present in the raw table?I have currently created a work around by not truncating the raw table, but this causes an unnecessary increase in the size of the raw table and produces many primary key violation errors.Looking forward to your answer!

I was interested in this link.Data directly from Data lake to MDW (without ODX) | Community (timextender.com) I am not able to access this link which was posted in the below of the message.  https://support.timextender.com/timextender-product-focus-group-123/virtual-odx-capability-to-read-directly-from-existing-data-lake-container-no-second-copy-614 Please advice,  

Hello.I have a scheduled execution package which takes data from ODX, transforms data in DSA database and loads final tables to MDW. This execution package basically runs a perspective containing this process.I need to setup following logic:If data in any source table (ODX) of this execution package is empty (i.e. at least 1 empty table) Do not execute the package If data in all source tables (ODX) of this execution package contain any data (i.e. all tables non-empty) Execute the package Is there any way how i can setup this? Maybe even create additional “control” execution package? The version of TX i am running is 20.10.34.64 Thank you!

Hi all,I have a client that has a datalake with parquet files in an Azure Storage Account Blob container (Datalake Gen2). This datalake has not been created by ODX server, but has been created by Synapse (scripted, delta lake parquet files). Since we want to load multiple tables from multiple folders we use the CData Parquet connector v2023 (TX 20.10.41). The issue we have is that we can’t find the right settings for the connector to recognize that the folder we’re connecting to contains multiple tables and that the parquet files are in a subfolder of the table folder. For the connection we use a Shared Access Signature and the connection is working:The name of the container is ‘development’ which we co

Hi all!We have created an external executable to run a python script, basically looking like this: cd F:\Data\Start-Process python GetData.pyexitNext we have added this to an execution package. If we run the package it will open a prompt and run the python script no problem.However if we add the package to a job and schedule or manually run that job nothing happens. How can we get this to work?cheers,Maarten

I need to make a field transformation such that if the field value starts with “DOK”, then I want to replace the value with “1001”. I tried to set up this custom field transformation using something along the lines of CASE WHEN …, but didn’t manage to get this to work. How would I write this code in TX?

We have a historic table and we use Dw_id as an unique indentifier. But when we update the record the DW_Id will stay the same, so we have duplicate values in the table on that field then. the original DW_id field is changing but the transformantion field isn’t.  Because we work with custom data aswell that we want to have there own value we work with the custom transformation. I will  provide some screens from the issue:   Can you provide me a way so the field eenheidssleutel will be unique over time and is equal to the DW

I have below the API request for Power Shell. Now I want to set it up in TX.  How to set up (Basic) Authentication for a request with a token retrieve?    # Force the use of SSL [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 ####################### # SETTINGS                                                                       # ####################### # REST API SETTINGS # $API_key = "HIDDEN" $API_username = "HIDDEN" $API_password = "HIDDEN" $API_company = "HIDDEN" $API_URL_Login = "https://secure.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.eu/ta/rest/v1/login" ####################### # LOGIN AND RETRIEVE TOKEN FOR UKG Ready                                         # #######################          Write-Host "### Retrieving token"            $heade

Hi, I've been trying to add new excel file from a new sharepoint group from the same company link to the same ODX server by using CData connector. Is there any setting to add both sharepoint links or make it visible? Now, I can only see the link with group1.sharepoint page examples;https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/group1https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/group2Best!

Anyone know in what TX repo table I can find the field and value for “Guard on deployement” and “Guard on execution?I know where the setting is in the UI, but need to look up the value in the repo db.

Hi can you add a diagram or something like that to understand when and where that scripts are executed?